ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The creation of new businesses and a strategic process for the development of the territory, the productive sectors and people.
Business Case:
D.DINIS INCUBATOR
The Leiria Region has demonstrated and managed to pass over the last century its potential as a dynamic and proactive region leading to some of its companies to manage and consolidate a strong and competitive image in an increasingly globalized world.
However, new challenges present today both in terms of foreign competitors and at the level of business dynamics. Getting to have a good business idea is not enough. Factors such as training, networking, access to new technologies today are elements that make the difference between a well-founded idea and just a simple business idea.
In order to house the business resulting from innovations generated in the region, providing infrastructure to the local productive arrangement, the Incubator D. Dinis was created through an initiative of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, the Municipality of Leiria and NERLEI.
Project:
Strategic Plan and innovation od D.Dinis incubator
The aim of the project was to analyze the various models implemented at the level of entrepreneurship, both national and international, to allow removing the best schemes and then moves them to the operating mode of the Incubator D.Dinis in Leiria. The analysis of critical success factors, stages of the incubation process, services offered and the target market, among others, recommendations and suggestions were applied in IDD model.
For enlarged perspective of the various alternatives for integrating the model of the incubator. In short, take the best of what is done or do to minimize the risk of failure, both own incubator operation and businesses to incubate.
Thus, the aim was to create the best working model to implement in IDD in order to give to this institution the best tools and strategies to become a reference entity in the national and international context in the area of entrepreneurship.
Process
ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
The key element in supporting entrepreneurship is to understand that the value lies in the entrepreneurial and not in the business idea, the latter can always be strengthened by the support structures.
THE IDD BUSINESS MODEL
MY OPPORTUNITY
The result was the design of the model «My Opportunity» for creating a suitable environment for the creation of companies where knowledge, suitable environment, networks, training programs, consultants, laboratories, corporate culture create the best conditions and opportunities to ease the challenge of transforming the ideas into businesses.
