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23.09.2015 Interreg Baltic Sea Region celebrates European Cooperation Day and 25 years of Interreg
21.09.2015 21 September is European Cooperation Day - Celebrating the benefits of working together across borders
16.09.2015 Solving State aid issues for Interreg projects
15.09.2015 Interreg represents a mind-set for a successful European future
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Society needs to be educated about role of business incubators in economy and opportunities their given
One of the questions discussed was, how to better inform society about work of business incubators, for better attraction of investments, more qualitative new business projects and support from government.
Education about role of business incubators in economy is the only way to assure support from government, as well as to get professionally made Project applications from new entrepreneurs. Experience till now shows that not all of applicants, which turns to business incubators, have complete understanding of what are the functions and power of business incubators.
Participants of the discussion evaluated positively opportunities given by IBI Net Project, which anticipates close international cooperation between different business incubators or Baltic Sea Region.
The decision to make such discussions with even bigger representation of different interested parties was made during the event.
Participants from business incubators located in Riga planning region, technology and innovation centres of universities and Investment and Development Agency of Latvia took part in the discussion.
For the first time research about development of business incubators in Baltic Sea region, with main conclusions and recommendations was presented during the discussion. Research was made in supreme command of Teknikdalen Foundation (Sweden) in cooperation with projects' partners: Riga Technical University, Municipality of Elblag City (Poland), Technology Centre of Western Pomerania (Germany), State Enterprise "Scientific - Technological Park BNTU "Polytechnic" (Belarus) and Innovation Centre Hedmark (Norway).