Days of Entrepreneur 2008

The chief of a main directorate of Policy of the SME, Maria Alley, and Marcelino Armenter, executive director of “the Caixa”, the past presented/displayed the 3 of February in Madrid second edition of `Together Emprendemos', an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce with the aim of fomenting the enterprising activity in Spain and offering the set of supports and existing services to facilitate the creation of companies in the local and national scope.

As it leaves from this initiative they celebrate the days of the Day of the Entrepreneur, to whom in this edition one adds the participation of the communities of Basque Country, Aragon and the independent city of Ceuta. The first encounter of entrepreneurs was celebrated in Valencia the 5 of March, that they will follow the rest of independent communities. All the implied institutions will celebrate a final encounter in Madrid to evaluate the results.

In these encounter the entrepreneurs participate in enterprise activities of knowledge, relation and practical learning. The past year 21,959 people participated in the Day of the Entrepreneur, 654 acts were developed and took part in the conferences 900 experts and professionals. This new edition consolidates a model of effective collaboration between the Public Administrations (general, autonomic and local), the State, the Independent Communities and the enterprise, academic, financial sector with the purpose of to favor the development of the projects of new entrepreneurs.

Like newness in the edition of this year 2008, the Caixa and the DGPYME promote the second edition of the prize EmprendedorXXI 2008, a contest that is born with the vocation to foment the development of innovating companies of recent creation and to consolidate its growth.

The contest, leaves from the project `Together Emprendemos', is directed to companies set up in Spain of recent creation, that credit a high degree of innovation and which they have a growth plan to the next years.

In each one of the 17 independent communities, during the month of March, a regional technical committee will evaluate the presented/displayed enterprise projects and will select a winner. Thus, this company will become autonomic finalist and it will be classified for the national phase of the prize, where it will compete in the end with the other 16 classified entrepreneurs.

Each one of the 17 autonomic winners will receive a package of services valued in 20.000 Euros. They will move to the University of Cambridge to receive the famous course Ignite Fast Tracking Innovation, where enterprising of world-wide success they realize practical courses on management of innovating companies with high potential of growth. The entrepreneurs will also be related to experts in English bottoms of risk capital.

Each one of the autonomic winners also will be able to travel to China to know first hand opportunities of business, collaboration and innovation with companies and institutions of that country. This initiative, promoted by the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, foments the internationalization and the technological development in the companies.

During a year, the 17 entrepreneurs will receive a customized consultant's office in corporative communication. In addition, Infonomía will realize an enterprise case of success on each of them who will publish themselves in different means and he will be compiled in a book.

Promotional video of year 2007