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Description:
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”Advancing Innovation in ECA 2007” Regional Conference of ECAbit was organized by ECAbit Network of Business Incubators and Technology Parks of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the infoDev Program of the World Bank jointly with Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Armenia.
The Workshop created an excellent opportunity for discussion of:
• national innovation policies existing in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia,
• role of business incubators and technoparks as a key elements of innovation policies and drivers of countries’ efforts to promote innovation-driven entrepreneurship
• innovation financing mechanism
• private sector, donor and the state programs facilitating innovation promotion
• ICT-enabled mechanism to foster innovation and collaboration • presentation of initiatives aimed to support of networking and cooperation in the area of innovation and technology transfer.
The Conference brought together around 70-80 international and local high-level policy makers and experts in business incubation and innovation promotion from more than 20 countries of Eastern European, CIS, EU and US as well as globally known international business players.
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee |
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