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The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and RedEmprendia sign a collaboration agreement

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 06.07.2010

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and RedEmprendia sign a collaboration agreement

The general director of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Lourdes Arana, and the president of the Ibero-American Business Incubation University Network (RedEmprendia), Senén Barro, signed a collaboration agreement yesterday, with the aim of fostering the actions undertaken by this entrepreneurial universities network. Fernando Albericio, general director of the Barcelona Science Park, and José Antonio Villasante, director of the Santander Universities Global Division, were also present at this event.


The development of a Study on Incubation Indicators, which will produce a publication projected to come out in November 2010, is included amongst the actions contemplated by this agreement. Likewise, a good practices manual of the RedEmprendia will be elaborated in order to share the “how-to” of entrepreneurship between universities. Dissemination actions will also be carried out in innovative companies, including a social promotion plan for entrepreneurial initiatives. Lastly, a web portal will be created to serve as a platform aimed at the exchange of information and the provision of services between network members.

RedEmprendia is an association that embodies a unique example in Spain for the promotion of innovation culture and entrepreneurship amongst Spanish university students. Its key objective is to offer its support to the transfer of knowledge and to the creation of Ibero-American entrepreneurial tissue generated from the results of university R+D+I. 15 universities, 7 of them Latin-American and 8 of them European, are part of this network, which was created with the support of the Santander Bank by means of its Santander Universities Global Division. The Spanish universities participating in the network are the Autonomous University of Madrid, the University of Barcelona, the University of Cantabria, and Complutense University of Madrid, and Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of Valencia. The University of Barcelona, founder of the RedEmprendia, is participating in this network via the Barcelona Science Park, by means of the PCB-Santander Bioincubator. One of the most important objectives of the FECYT is to boost the coordination of entrepreneurial networks, such as RedEmprendia, to strengthen it and help it reach its objectives.

The strategic objectives of the FECYT, a public sector foundation that belongs to the Ministry of Science and Innovation, are the dissemination of scientific culture and innovation, the integration and rationalization of information and R+D+I measures, and the promotion of the transfer of knowledge to innovative and entrepreneurial talent. It is precisely within this latter vector that the present collaboration is framed.