Park E
The Park of the Entrepreneurship is an initiative of Alcaldia de Medellin and the University of Antioquia, through the Program of Technological Management, which thinks about how to strengthen the culture of the entrepreneurship and go with the creation of companies from the business opportunities or the results of investigations and academic activities identified by the entrepreneurs.
This project is framed inside the strategic line ‘Medellin productive, competitive and united’, of the Plan of Development 2004 – 2007 ‘Medellin Commitment of the whole Citizenship’, that thinks about how to promote the culture of the entrepreneurship from the youth, making use of the knowledge that in this matter have been constructed by diverse organizations in different sectors of the urban and rural economy of the municipality.
To reach this target, the University of Antioquia has dynamics that makes possible to strengthen the culture of the entrepreneurship between the university community with they it develops activities of sensitization, training and project consultancy of companies by means of the Unit of Business Entrepreneurship and the support of the Incubator of Companies of Technological Base of Antioquia (Iebta) along with Operating Famiempresas.
The lines of action of Park E are defined in two basic targets: generation of enterprising culture and support to the creation and strengthening of companies.
Generation of Enterprising Culture
1. Sensitization in business entrepreneurship
• Approach to the community.
• Link of the community.
2. Array
• Academic coordination.
• Array in teaching competences.
• Array of enterprising competences.
• Array in business contents.
Support to the creation and strengthening of companies
3. Promotion and development
• Initial diagnosis of the business idea.
• Reception of business ideas.
• Initial structure of the business plan (markets and technician).
4. Preincubation
• Commercial ratification of the business plan.
• Structure of the business plan (legal – organizational).
5. Incubation
• Physical preoperative assembly of the company.
Together with Alcaldia de Medellin and the University of Antioquia, Networks also exist that have strengthening and generating spaces of development concerning the entrepreneurship.
Park E seeks to integrate inside the Regional Network as a support for the companies and projects that are generated from the institutions of Antioquia; in the National Network as a spokesman of the innovation, the investigation, the science and the technology; and with the International Network it establishes contacts not only in the business field but also in the social one and the cultural one.
In addition to the participation in the Networks, Park E has agreements established with two institutions entrepreneurship promoters: Barcelona Activa and the Technological Park of Software of Cali (ParqueSoft).
To who is it directed?
The services of Park E are directed to a university public who thinks about how to create or to strengthen business ideas of medium and high technology.
These business ideas can participate in two contests: Creation of Innovative Companies or New Company from Results of Investigation.
Requirements
• To fulfill the conditions established by the contest to which it is going to appear.
Contact us
Web site: http://emprendimiento.udea.edu.co
E-mail: parquedelemprendimiento@udea.edu.co
Phone: 219 20 00
Address: Calle 65 # 55 – 46
Agradecimientos: Escuela de Idiomas de la Universidad de Antioquia.