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The Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013
Project „Intercountry Business Incubator Network” (IBI Net)
The Final Conference, 15 May, 2012, Riga, Latvia
AGENDA
Venue: Radisson Blu Daugava Hotel, Kuģu Str.24.
Moderated by: Juris Jerums, Lecturer, Riga Technical University, Riga Business School
09:30 – 10:00 |
Registration, coffee |
10:00 – 10:05 |
Opening and welcome Edvīns Bartkevičs, Chairman of Riga Region Development Council, Chairman of Ogre County |
10:05 – 10:15 |
Regional development – the role of business incubation activities Edmunds Sprūdžs, Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development |
10:15 – 10:30 |
Place of business incubators in national innovation system Jānis Stabulnieks, Director of Latvian Technology Centre |
10:30 – 10:50 |
Incubators - nodes in efficient innovation systems Magnus Lundin, Managing Director of Swedish Incubators and Science Parks (SISP) |
10:50 – 11:00 |
Jānis Zvīgulis, Cross-sectoral Coordination Centre |
11:00 – 11:15 |
Business support in Latvia and role of regions and local municipalities in fostering SME support Māris Ēlerts, Deputy Director, Investment and Development Agency of Latvia |
11:15 – 11:30 |
Andris Bērziņš, Technology Entrepreneur, Chairman of the Board, Tech Hub Rīga* |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Panel discussion Breakthrough in economic development – the role and potential of business incubation Moderated by JurisJerums, Lecturer, Riga Technical University, Riga Business School |
12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
13:00 – 13:15 |
Summary of results of BI Forum Cooperation perspectives in IBI Net network JurisJerums, Lecturer, Riga Technical University, Riga Business School |
13:15 – 13:30 |
BSR Programme support to innovations and SMEs: current period and future orientations Elena Kolosova, Project Officer, BSR Programme Joint Technical Secretariat in Riga (Latvia) |
13:30 – 13:45 |
Achievements and results Inga Brieze, IBI Net Project Manager, Riga Planning Region (Latvia) |
13:45 – 14:00 |
Business incubator working methods and practices Sture Ericsson, Executive Director, Teknikdalen Foundation Stefan Holgersson, Managing Director, Business incubator (Sweden) |
14:00 – 14:10 |
IBI Net Association and financing schemes of business incubators Mario Kokowsky, Centre of Technology Western-Pomerania (Germany) |
14:10– 14:20 |
IBI Net cooperation tools, Mareks Zeltiņš, Deputy Rector Strategic Development Issues of Riga Technical University (Latvia) |
14:20 – 14:30 |
Similarities and differences in business incubation in BSR – IBI Net perspective Beata Dziuba, Project Manager of Strategic Development Department of the City Commune of Elblag(Poland) |
14:30 - 14:40 |
Entrepreneurship and international cooperation Øyvind Nordstrand, Headmark Innovation Centre (Norway) |
14:40 – 14:50 |
Lyudmila Shmygova, Project manager, Scientific and Technological Park “Polytechnic” (Belarus) |
14:50 – 15:20 |
Panel discussion Moderated by: Juris Jerums, Lecturer, Riga Technical University, Riga Business School |
15:20 – 15:30 |
Perspective of IBI Net and summary Inga Brieze, IBI Net Project Manager, Riga Planning Region Juris Jerums, Lecturer, Riga Technical University, Riga Business School |
15:30 |
Closure, coffee |
* Tech Hub Rīga – Co-working Community of Product Oriented Technology Start-ups, in affiliation with Tech Hub, London.