SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 17 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Science and Technology Park of Tenerife (PCTT), a company of the Cabildo de Tenerife, has signed an agreement to facilitate and promote the creation of technology-based companies and reduce the obstacles they face during their development.
The agreement has also been signed by the National Innovation Company (ENISA) and the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE), of which PCTT is a part, within the framework of ‘Transfiere’, within the professional and multisectoral forum European for the transfer of knowledge and technology that is being held in Malaga.
With the ‘Aptemisa’ agreement, entrepreneurs are promoted and supported through experienced managers, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, advisers and managers in the development of their products, services and business models, growth and investment, which will foster the detection of 100 business ideas and acceleration of 32 startups in eight autonomous communities.
The Island Councilor for Innovation, Enrique Arriaga, explains in a note that “this agreement will allow the development of activities and generate facilities for the creation and growth of new ‘startups’ in Tenerife, thus fulfilling the PCTT objective of promoting and promoting entrepreneurship on the island”.
Arriaga points out that “‘Aptenisa’ will support entrepreneurship from the initial idea to the acceleration phase, validation of the business model and constitution, and taking into account both the territorial gap, connectivity and the lack of a gender perspective, it will bet on promoting initiatives that promote digitization or implementation of technologies in different sectors, as well as female entrepreneurship”.
The island’s Director of Innovation, Aránzazu Artal, explains that “this agreement opens up an important line of training for startups that many entrepreneurs want to start up on the island.”
HORIZONTAL TRAINING
Thus, it is “an opportunity for the PCTT as it increases its capacity to promote entrepreneurship and protect the growth of innovative, disruptive and technology-based companies.”
The ‘Aptenisa’ pilot program will begin with horizontal training for the participants, in an online format.
The ten science and technology parks participating in this program are Garaia Technology Park, Technology and Innovation Park Tecnoparc, Malaga TechPark, Madrid Science Park Foundation, La Salle Technova Barcelona, Balearic Technology Innovation Park (ParcBit), Las Palmas Technology Park of Gran Canaria, Science Park of Alicante, Science and Technology Park Avilés ‘Island of Innovation’ and Science and Technology Park of Tenerife.
‘Aptenisa’ is developed in four phases: the first APTENISA TT will train trainers, followed by APTE START, which aims to identify ideas and opportunities, and later APTENISA LAUNCH, designed to help start-ups in their initial start-up phase and will systematically prepare them for its launch to the market and APTENISA INVESTORS NETWORKS, with the aim of providing private financing to entrepreneurial projects in the initial phases, training for directors, professionals and alumni of the universities linked to the parks will be carried out for all the parks.
