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A Women's Cooperative Builds a New Business - Brazil (Brief excerpt from the ITCP Business Incubator video)

Approximately 2 minutes With assistance from the ITCP Business Incubator in Rio de Janiero a group of mothers were given training on marketing and logistics in order to convert their culinary skills into a catering and bakery venture. Today, their business is sustainable. View larger

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Busy Internet's Business Incubator in Ghana

Case study of Busy Internet's Business Incubator based in Accra, Ghana and supported by infoDev. View

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A Profile of an Incubator Graduate in India (Brief excerpt from TREC-STEP Incubator video)

Approximately 2 minutes An example of an entrepreneur who received support from the TREC-STEP Business Incubator and has since graduated and expanded his business. Today, he is a mentor for new tenant companies at TREC-STEP. View

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Building a new Management Software for Hospitals - Vietnam (Brief excerpt from CRC Business Incubator video)

Approximately 2 minutes A local software company receives assistance from CRC Business Incubator, based in Hanoi University of Technology, to deploy its hospital managment software in over 30 regional hospitals. View

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Video Case Study of 4 Business Incubators Supported by infoDev - Brazil, Ghana, India & Vietnam

Approximately 40 minutes This video captures the lessons learned by four of infoDev's business incubators. These case studies aim to provide an overview of the role business incubators play in fostering ICT-enabled innovation and entrepreneurship in developing countries. View

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CRC Business Incubator (Vietnam)

Approximately 10 minutes Video case study of the CRC Business Incubator, based in the Hanoi University of Technology, and supported by infoDev. View

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Developing Educational Software in Ghana (Brief excerpt from Busy Internet's Business Incubator video)

Approximately 2 minutes With support from Busy Internet in Ghana, four university graduates become pioneers in interactive children's education. View

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A Profile of an Entrepreneur in Ghana (Brief excerpt from Busy Internet's Business Incubator video)

Approximately 2 minutes A profile of an entrepreneur in Accra who has received assistance from Busy Internet's Business Incubator, to develop a business making labels for garment manufacturers. View

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Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering College – Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park - TREC-STEP Incubator (India)

TREC - STEP is a model interface institution, which delivers innovation, science and technology and entrepreneurship through training, development and consultancy initiatives. It was established in 1986 in the sprawling environs of Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli is the first STEP in the country. It has been continually engaged in promoting a new genre of entrepreneurs and many new initiatives for ushering in technology based growth. TREC - STEP is a model interface institution, which delivers innovation, science and technology and entrepreneurship through training, development and consultancy initiatives. View

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National Consortium for Technology and Business Incubation - iPark (Amman, Jordan)

The work program of this incubator addresses the key issues of entrepreneurial culture in the region, especially in regard to facilitating enterprise start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) finance and government networking. Following a government grant of $US 200,000 to establish the incubator, it aims to achieve financial self-sufficiency through a model of tenant rentals and revenue sharing. The primary objectives of the infoDev-funded work program are to connect the numerous activities in Jordan that relate to job creation through entrepreneur and small business development and support, to achieve success through coordinating the different efforts so as to reduce duplication and to increase know-how and knowledge. View

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Technological Incubator of Popular Cooperatives of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ITCP (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

This incubator supports popular cooperatives for creating livelihoods and income generating opportunities for poor and disadvantaged people, particularly women. The program is managed by Fundação COPPETEC (COPPETEC Foundation) and the Technology Transfer Office of COPPE/UFRJ. ITCP was founded in 1996 with an agreement between COPPE/UFRJ, FINEP (Brazilian Innovation Agency) and the Fundação Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil Foundation) in response to growing unemployment in Brazil. Since its creation, ITCP has contributed directly to creating more than 1,200 new livelihoods and jobs in Rio de Janeiro. ITCP has its own facilities with 400 square meters of building space located on the university campus. View

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Viasphere TechnoPark (Yerevan, Armenia)

Viasphere was founded in 1998 as an incubator and accelerator headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. The Viasphere management team has a proven track record working with startups having founded, funded, managed and helped guide several at among them BSQUARE Corporation (est. 1995 NASDAQ: BSQR), Mainbrace Corporation (est. 1997 M&A), Savvion, Inc., Security Pacific Home Loans, and Virage Logic (est. 1996 NASDAQ: VLOG). We have extensive experience working with multinationals including Microsoft®, Hitachi, AT&T and others. Our team members have also successfully managed angel and ventures funds in the US and Europe View

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Tianjin Women's Business Incubator (China)

The Tianjin Women’s Business Incubator (TWBI) is a non-profit business incubator based in Tianjin, China’s third largest city, dedicated to promoting the growth and development of women-owned businesses of all types in Tianjin. While there are over 400 business incubators in China, TWBI is China’s only women’s mixed business incubator. View

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