Presentaci

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONAS MODEL FOR
SUPPORTING START-UPS
October 5, 2004
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BOSCH I GIMPERA FOUNDATION

• Private non-profit organisation
• Established in 1983
• To facilitate the collaboration between the
• university and firms and institutions
• Two specialised centres
• - THE INNOVATION CENTRE
• (Contracts administered 38 million euros)
• - LES HEURES CONTINUING EDUCATION
• (Annual turnover 10,8 million euros)

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THE BUSINESS CENTRE Objectives

• To turn UB research with market potential
• into new science- or technology-based companies.
• To offer UB researchers guidance and services
• to start new companies.
• To promote the entrepreneurial culture within
  the
• university environment.

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THE BUSINESS CENTRE
THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT STAGE. SERVICES
OFFERED -Project identification -Scientific
evaluation of the project -Identification of the
business concept -Access to seed capital
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THE BUSINESS CENTRE
- THE SETUP STAGE. SERVICES OFFERED -Market
studies -Development of the business
plan -Protection of intellectual property
rights and registration of patents -Training
for the entrepreneurs -Selection of the
management team -Access to resources risk
capital or industrial partners
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• The Quasi-Enterprises programme
• Programme started in 1998 at UB.
• Objective
• to help a research group to develop a
  professional approach to market.
• to improve internal control of the financial
  transactions of the group.
• A Quasi-Enterprise is a research group oriented
  to technological demand, that has acquired an
  additional structure - of management and
  promotion - that allows it to have a more fluent
  relation with the market.

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• The Quasi-Enterprises programme results
• Year 2000 Internationalization of the programme
  (EU financing). Consortium with
• Techminho, Guimaraes (PORTUGAL)
• Area Science Park, Trieste (ITALY)
• 16 Quasi-E running.
• 6 of them incorporated as spin-off companies.
• Research areas
• Computational linguistics.
• Applied Economy studies.
• Museology, architecture.
• Biotechnology.
• Chemistry organic, electrochemistry, analysis.
• Pharmacy formulation services, nutritional
  services

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• Technological Trampolines Programme description
• Programme created in 2001 by CIDEM (Catalan
  government) and most of the Universities in
  Catalonia.
• OBJECTIVE To promote entrepreneurship in
  technologically innovative projects.
• How does it work?
• Each University creates a Technological
  Trampoline to
• Evaluate ideas.
• Assist entrepreneurs to develop their projects.
• Incubate new projects financed by the programme.
• CIDEM evaluates projects coming from Universities
  and finances up to 60 of the project (max.
  100,000).
• Entrepreneurs must finance 40 of the project.

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Results at UB 16 companies already
incorporated 4 companies have venture capital
investment Some companies negotiating
next rounds of financing 4 companies have
industrial partners 6 companies at the
Bioincubator

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For more information
Ms. Carme Verdaguer Director of the Business
Centre Area Bosch i Gimpera Foundation University
of Barcelona Baldiri Reixac, 4-6- Torre D 08028
Barcelona Tel. [phone] Fax [phone]
94 34 E-mail cverdaguer_at_fbg.ub.es www.fbg.ub.es