A smart entrepreneurship festival, where people share smart ideas about new innovation models in open discussions in a collaborative mode. Travel to Burgos EBN 2010 congress and meet smart BICs, BICs 2020 from Wednesday 30 June to Friday 2 July 2010! Don't miss these dates and book your agendas.

The Strategy-Train project offers a learning programme on enterprise strategy and strategic management for decision-makers in small enterprises.

From 8th to 10th March in Berlin, the Municipality of Rome and BIC Lazio will participate in the kick-off meeting of the project KNOW MAN - Knowledge Network Management in Technology Parks.

The European Commission and the Spanish Government organise a Forum to increase the mobilisation of relevant stakeholders from business, finance and technology domains around eco-innovation with the aim to take-up environmental technologies on a borad scale.

The SpaceSpinoff Award shall be awarded in 2010 for the second time to honour representatives of space transfer parties which generated a space technology transfer of extraordinary success due to its economic impact, with environmental or societal benefits, etc.

As an outreach of the GALILEO Application Days and in coordination with the GSA, a special GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Venture Academy will be organized with the ambition to help SMEs involved in the development of new GNSS applications at fine tuning their business plan.

As every year time has come for us to ask you to provide us with your data for the quality system. I know it seems yesterday when you provided us the 2008 data, but now we are well into 2010 and we do need the 2009 data.

3 laureate comapnies presented their innovative project in the framework of the UNDP/IDEASS International Contest for Innovation on the theme of Eco-Innovation. See their presentations.

Three champion companies having successfully expanded their activities after BIC follow-up in their beginnings gave testimonials on the way to reach the top with the right financing, the right partners, the right advisors.

EBN and the BIC Community celebrated their 25th Anniversary on last 27 January 2010 in the presence of many representatives from the European Commission who expressed their strong support to EBN and the BICs for their experience, the results achieved throughout this last century quarter and the best practices developed in the use of EU funding aimed at the economic development of territories.