Coimbra iParque
The Coimbra Innovation Park (iParque) is a
. The park was projected with 150,000 square meters of industrial sites intended for development and 700 square meters of office space. Additional facilities such as a data center, several conference halls and meeting rooms of different sizes, a restaurant and a green park were in the initial plans. The park was also intended to offer a range of specialized services to support business development, internationalization and establishment of foreign companies.History and mission
R&D groups and centres, as well as some successful innovative companies. The Coimbra iParque was founded in order to connect these initiatives and businesses and work with them, establishing cooperation networks, creating synergies and competitive advantages.[1]
Coimbra iParque mission was to develop and modernize Coimbra as well as the region's economical activity by promoting, creating and settling companies with a high technological content and by aiming towards innovation, experimental development and the use of new technologies in advising or training actions. It intended to create a new concept of competition based on the collective efforts of a number of institutional initiatives that were credible and promote the attraction of highly educated
The area was
biking, dog walking and even street racing
.
References
- ^ EU Report on Entrepreneurship in Higher Education specially in non-business studies (refers to iParque as an example in Portugal)
- ^ (in Portuguese) MCS, Coimbra iParque: Empresas que vão inaugurar o espaço serão conhecidas em breve - presidente Archived 10 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal, retrieved on 24 January 2008
External links
Other related sites:
- Municipality of Coimbra
- University of Coimbra
- Partnership with the University of Coimbra[permanent dead link]
- iParque @ De Rerum Natura
- Critical Software press release (taking 2% of iParque's capital)