Dear colleagues,

 
As we informed you earlier, the 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation: Empowering Economies through ICT, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India, November 6-10, 2006 is an excellent opportunity for participants from the ECA region countries to:

1. network with other participants to informally exchange ideas and explore opportunities for partnership
2. learn from the achievements […]

Background: Why and How TCNet started
The current developments in the countries in transition, specifically the small business growth, and increasing needs for practical knowledge and training in business to ensure competitiveness, have significantly increased the role of business incubators and training and consulting centers, as well as of individual business trainers and consultants. At the […]

Since November 8, 2006 we will have time to discuss actual issues of ECA network development within Regional and Thematic Break-out Sessions and to clarify next steps of our further cooperation.
Regional and Thematic Break-out Sessions will be concentrated on:

review of SME and innovation situation in the countries
role of incubators in the countries
strategic priorities of the […]

Dear colleagues,
 
This first newsletter of the informal Eastern Europe – Central Asia (ECA) Network for Business Incubation embodies a new step in the ECA network development within supported by the InfoDev Program of the World Bank initiatives aimed at strengthening regional and global networks for incubation and innovation support. We hope that this Newsletter among […]

Please, find enclosed list of potential partners of ECA Network. Do not hesitate to contact us if you find incorrect contact information or some of your colleagues/organizations from your country were not included in the contact list. Please, send your comments and suggestions to info@eca-network.org.

The project eca-network.org is the first step in information and resource exchange among all the organizations and individuals of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries on the development of efficient cooperation in the sphere of innovation; SME support programs, business incubation and technology transfer.
We believe that this simple tool, from its start, could be […]

The 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation: Empowering Economies through ICT, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hyderabad, India, November 6-10, 2006 is an excellent opportunity for participants from ECA region countries to:
1. network with other participants to informally exchange ideas and explore opportunities for partnership
2. learn from the achievements and lessons of infoDev’s Global Network of Incubators
3. […]

InfoDev Incubators Initiative of the World Bank is still a catalyst of international cooperation in the ECA region. Thanks to this fact, two pilot projects impacting the ECA network development started in August 2006.
SODBI Business Incubator in Shymkent, Kazakhstan is implementing networking project “Strengthening impact and outreach of SODBI business incubator in Shymkent by building […]

Cooperation among innovation and entrepreneurship support organizations of our region has to that time long-term history. Its development was promoted within various international events such as conferences, workshops, exchange programs which were held practically in all our countries. These events have assisted to lay the basis of future cooperation in the ECA region. ECA network […]