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Projects
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Entrepreneurship Educationfor Upper Secondary
Vocational Schools
Focus

• Integration of the topic entrepreneurship into
  the curricula of mainly technical orientated
  vocational schools. Further qualification of the
  teacher in that matter. Involvement of
  entrepreneurs and embedding of a business-plan
  orientated way of teaching.

Partner

• build! Gründerzentrum Kärnten GmbH Klagenfurt
  Carinthia
• BWTW Bildungswerk der Thüringer Wirtschaft
  Erfurt Thueringen

Duration Total Budget

• March 2005 June 2006 EUR 109.950

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Entrepreneurship Educationfor Upper Secondary
Vocational Schools
Outputs

• Customer Conferences with teacher, students and
  entrepreneurs
• Teacher training programmes
• Publishing of a booklet on mini-compamies
• Accompanying evaluation to measure the progress
  of the students regarding their knowledge about
  business-plan-contents and their attitude towards
  founding a company

Contact Further Information

• Siegfried Spanz build! Gründerzentrum Kärnten
  GmbH spanz_at_build.or.atwww.entrepreneurship-educ
  ation.info

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Incubator SupportUniversity Based Incubator
Support Programmes
Focus

• University-based Incubators develop an education
  package for their start-ups to improve their
  qualification level.

Partner

• Bergen University College Bergen Western
  Norway
• Fachhochschule Jena Jena Thueringen
• build! Gründerzentrum Kärnten GmbH Klagenfurt
  Carinthia

Duration Total Budget

• March 2005 June 2006 EUR 186.500

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Incubator SupportUniversity Based Incubator
Support Programmes
Outputs

• Joint development of a new education package-
  Entrepreneurship Basic Module- Entrepreneurship
  Advanced Module BizKick-Contest- Opportunity
  Discovery and Business Modelling- Product
  Development- Financing for technology-based
  Start-Ups- Marketing for technology-based
  Start-Ups
• Testing of the developed modules with totally
  more than 300 students and 10 experts involved in
  the regions

Contact Further Information

• Atle Våge Bergen University College
  atle.vage_at_hib.no www.hib.no www.incubatorsuppor
  t.net

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ALCHYMISTDo you want to be your own boss?
Focus

• Background for this project was the need in
  Western Norway and Thueringen for more young
  people to start their own businesses. Innovation
  Norway has developped an instrument called the
  Alchymist, which focuses on the special needs and
  problems of young people when they intend to
  start their own businesses.

Partner

• Innovation Norway Leikanger Western Norway
• Sogn og Fjordane University College Sogndal
  Western Norway
• KEG Kommunalentwicklungsgesellschaft Gotha
  Gotha Thueringen

Duration Total Budget

• April 2005 June 2006 EUR 160.000

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ALCHYMISTDo you want to be your own boss?
Outputs

• Further development of the instrument Alchymist.
  Choosing of consultants. Training of trainers.
  Test with 25 applicants in Western Norway and 19
  students in Thueringen.
• Internationalisation of the instrument Alchymist
  to prepare the Norwegian founders for the global
  market.
• Test of this instrument in Thueringen
  transferability and international practicability

Contact Further Information

• Rune Henjesand Innovation Norway
  rune.henjesand_at_ivanor.nowww.innovasjonnorge.no

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RENESTResource networking as an efficient
support strategy for the technological
development and upgrading of innovative Start-Up
companies.
Focus

• To identify suitable strategies and instruments
  in an interregional network of Technology Parks
  and Business Incubators to support innovative
  Start-Up-companies

Partner

• Forinnova AS Bergen Western Norway
• KPSF AS Sogndal Western Norway
• BIC Nordthüringen GmbH Nordhausen Thueringen
• TGF Schmalkalden GmbH Schmalkalden
  Thueringen
• EAK Entwicklungsagentur Kärnten GmbH
  Klagenfurt Carinthia

Duration Total Budget

• April 2005 June 2006 EUR 138.700

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RENESTResource networking as an efficient
support strategy for the technological
development and upgrading of innovative Start-Up
companies.
Outputs

• Study of the Start-Up-conditions in the regions.
  Analysis of the instruments for supporting
  Start-Ups. Derivation of best practise examples.
  Recommendations for action.
• Development and further improvement of a
  Tool-Kit acc. to the needs of the companies
  Innovation Guide Outsourcing-Concept
  Marketing-Concept (with support of Universities
  of Klagenfurt, Nordhausen, Schmalkalden).
• Study Visits SME-enterprises and institutions

Contact Further Information

• Dr. Øivind Enger Forinnova AS
  oivind.enger_at_forinnova.nowww.forinnova.no

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ENTREEEntrepreneur Empowerment for Sustained
Growth
Focus

• To accompany young entrepreneurs of innovative
  SMEs from their start-up to established and
  stable enterprises. Main focus was placed on the
  development of self-assessment tools and good
  practise models.

Partner

• Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena GmbH Jena
  Thueringen
• ReFIT e.V. Jena Thueringen
• EAK Entwicklungsagentur Kärnten GmbH Klagenfurt
  Carinthia

Duration Total Budget

• February 2005 June 2006 EUR 136.590

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ENTREEEntrepreneur Empowerment for Sustained
Growth
Outputs

• Guideline on identification of good practice
• Questionnaire and survey of more than 70
  companies.
• Self-assessment tools. Internet-Short-Version and
  a long version as a basis for detailed
  interviews. Key aspects of activity- Product
  customer market- Business Competition-
  Production Controlling- Financing
• Interregional Business-Matching and Meetings with
  regional partnerships

Contact Further Information

• Randolf Margull TIP Jena GmbH
  info_at_tip-jena.dehttp.//ENTREE.tip-jena.de

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PROMOT GROWOptimisation of the promotion
possibilities for innovative and technology
orientated SMEs in the phase of growth.
Focus

• Special training tools regarding strategy and
  management as well as opportunities for the
  set-up of hight-tech companies in the involved
  regions.

Partner

• Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena GmbH
  Jena Thueringen
• BABEG Kärntner Betriebsansiedlungs- und
  Beteiligungs mbH Klagenfurt
• Innovation Norway Hordaland Bergen Western
  Norway

Duration Total Budget

• January 2006 December 2006 EUR 297.200

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PROMOT GROWOptimisation of the promotion
possibilities for innovative and technology
orientated SMEs in the phase of growth.
Outputs

• Custom-Tailored Qualifying and Coaching-programme
  in Carinthia and FRAM-Entrepreneur-programme in
  Western Norway initiated and tested.
• New programmes and guidelines to support the
  set-up of companies in terms of location and
  business development.

Contact Further Information

• Randolf Margull TIP Jena GmbH
  info_at_tip-jena.dewww.tip-jena.de

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ManageSMECustomized management development for
SME
Focus

• The project aims at supporting small and medium
  sized enterprises (SMEs) as learning
  organisations. Surveys among SME help to
  customize programmes for the development of
  management-competences.

Partner

• NyKunnskap AS Nordfjordeid Western Norway
• Technische Universität Ilmenau Ilmenau
  Thueringen
• Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungs Fonds Klagenfurt
  Carinthia

Duration Total Budget

• January 2006 December 2006 EUR 244.500

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ManageSMECustomized management development for
SME
Outputs

• Study and survey (230 SMEs) concerning the demand
  for advanced further training of SMEs preferably
  in form of workshops to the topics of marketing,
  controlling, innovation and quality management.
• Train the trainer programme to sensitise
  consultants according to the critical factors of
  sucess of small enterprises.
• Training programmes carried out

Contact Further Information

• Stein Kvalsund NyKunnskap AS
  stein.kvalsund_at_sunnfjord2020.nowww.manage-sme.de