I Congress Entrepreneurship and Territorial Innovation

The 1st Regional Entrepreneurship and Innovation Congress of the Valencia Region. From local development to territorial innovation, it aims to become a meeting and networking point between the different agents of the ecosystem that provide services to entrepreneurship, in which to share experiences, reflections and success stories of companies and projects launched by the agents that allow progress in the development of the Valencia Region with a clear focus on territorial innovation.

This initiative is part of the Programme for Strengthening Agents of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of the Valencia Region, developed by the CEEIs and financed by the Generalitat Valenciana, through the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE), within its policy of support for entrepreneurship and SMEs, and is co-financed by European Union ERDF funds, within the ERDF Operational Programme of the Valencia Region 2014-2020.

AXES AND STRUCTURE OF THE CONGRESS

The scheduled date for the First Congress is 27 November 2019, at ADEIT’s headquarters in Valencia. The program will be structured around 5 priority axes of action:

Axis 1. Demographic challenge
Main line of action 2. Institutional coordination
Axis 3. Project Success Stories
Axis 4. Ecosystem challenges
Axis 5. Measuring innovation in the territory
DIRECTED TO: Agent of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of the Valencia Region

PROGRAM

9:00 a.m. Reception and coffee

9.20 a.m. Institutional Opening Ceremony

Interventions by IVACE-Generalitat Valenciana, CEEI and ADLYPSE to explain the project developed with the ecosystem agents and present the congress.

10.00 a.m. Innovating from the territory in the attention to entrepreneurs and companies

Carmen Herrero: Project 12 months, 12 companies
María Olga Oruña: Support point for the transfer of companies
Diego Tomas. Differentiated Co-working Spaces
Moderator: Luis Miguel Batalla (CEEI Castellón)

10:00 a.m. Projects and Initiatives in the face of the demographic challenge

Rafael Giménez: Aras de los Olmos Astronomical Observatory Project
Local Experience Cases
Moderator: Fidel Garcia (Divalterra-Diputació de València)

11:00 a.m. Coffee-networking

11.30 a.m. Coordination and profile of ecosystem agents

Pedro A. Pardo: Aragón’s commitment to entrepreneurship. Success stories
Antonio Martínez: Study on Professional Profiles of Local Development Technicians
Moderator: Jordi Tormo (CEEI Alcoy-Valencia)
11.30 a.m. The importance of measuring innovation and the profile of the ADL

Luis Vicente Rubio: Measurement indicator systems
Isidre March: The importance of measuring innovation
Moderator: José Domingo Martínez (ADLYPSE and València Provincial Council).

12.30 p.m. Plenary: Challenges and Opportunities of the Valencian Territory

José Benlloch: Challenges for medium-sized Valencian cities that are committed to innovation
José Manuel Bisseto: Challenges in rural and inland areas
Alberto Lorente: European cooperation and innovation networks in small cities
Moderator: Ricard Calvo (GRIDET-Universitat de València)

1:30 p.m. Conclusions and closure