Internationalization agreement was signed during Anprotec's technical mission in the country
Tecnopuc and the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE) signed an internationalization agreement on Sept 18. The partnership is fruit of an agreement entered into between the National Association of Entities Promoting Innovative Ventures (Anprotec) and APTE in 2016. The agreement was officiated on the first day of Anprotec’s Technical Mission in Spain by Jorge Audy, president of the Association and Dean of PUCRS’ President’s Office, Rafael Prikladnicki, director of Tecnopuc, and Soledad Diaz, director of APTE.
The partnership has arisen from the Softlanding Enterprise Eurolodge program of the Spanish Association, which is intended to facilitate the conduction of businesses all over the world. Tecnopuc’s role reinforces the importance of the relationship between the countries and innovation environments. In Prikladnicki’s view, this was possible due to Tecnopuc’s internationalization program, which celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2017. “In the current scenario, companies have to be global from the very beginning. Tecnopuc plays an important role there as it creates this kind of opportunities”, says he.
APTE
The Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain was created in 1989 and is mainly intended to collaborate to the renovation and diversification of productive activities, technological progress and economic development, by providing training programs and dissemination of science and technology parks. Today, the institution is home to 66 associate technology parks, all over Spain.
Tecnopuc’s internationalization program
Tecnopuc has bilateral agreements with several innovation environments all over the world, in countries such as England, USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Russia and China, among others. Besides, it is part of international networks, which give it access to more than 150 innovation environments all over the planet. Not only does this benefit the companies interested in setting up offices in another country, but also those that seek international connections, even when they are based here.
