The Cádiz Free Trade Zone incubator participates as a guest in a panel dedicated to IATs specialized in Circular Economy
Gran Canaria has been the international center of reflection on the transition towards a more sustainable socio-economic model with the first edition of the Ecoislas International Forum. An international event held on February 2 and 3 in Infecar, with the participation of four international experts and more than 60 speakers from academic, administrative, financial, business and social sectors.
Incubazul has intervened as a guest technology incubator in the Circular Economy and Blue Economy block. Through an i panelHigh Technology incubators for the promotion of the circular and blue economy in Spain Entrepreneurial initiatives have been exposed.
The person in charge of exposing it has been the technician of the project, Miriam Pulido, who has summarized the main objectives of the program, developed by Zona Franca de Cádiz with the collaboration of Telefónica and financed by Feder funds through the Incyde Foundation. His intervention has focused on the Incubazul model as a way of addressing different technological solutions within the framework of the Blue Economy, with a technical team and a group of sixteen mentors and the twenty-three startups incorporated to date, a number that is You will see it significantly expanded this February.
On the other hand, the Incubazul technique has highlighted the importance of the blue economy in Spain, the nearly 700,000 jobs it generates in the country or the growing impact it is having. Lastly, he underlined the importance of the sustainable model that the Cádiz Free Trade Zone has launched with Incubazul and pointed out that "there is no better place than Cádiz, due to its close link with the sea, to develop blue economy projects".
Meeting in Cádiz in 2022
With this panel, the National Network of High Technology Incubators has also been made known, mainly those oriented to Blue and Circular Economy projects. Technological trends and solutions that can be highlighted in these first years of deployment of High Technology Incubators have also been addressed.
This meeting takes place after the Cádiz experience, since the Cádiz Free Zone was last June 2022 the place chosen for the I Meeting of High Technology Incubators, in which 19 centers from all over Spain gathered. An appointment in which entrepreneurship and the work carried out by incubators in accelerating the companies that are installed in them were given visibility.
Top-tier international experts
The Ecoislas International Forum has enabled a space for discussion, proposals and promotion of measures aimed at promoting the comprehensive transition towards a greener, more profitable, more self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable socioeconomic model and with an insular approach.
Promoted and financed by the Cabildo de Gran Canaria and organized by Infecar, Ecoislas has brought together international, national and local speakers in the same event who have presented good practices and have discussed the needs and solutions in each of the large blocks on which the programming focuses: the circular and blue economy; energy, water and mobility; adaptation to climate change; and regenerative tourism.
The program of the first Ecoislas International Forum included four plenary sessions by Manuel Maqueda, professor of Applied Circular Economy and Regenerative Economy at Harvard University; Bernard Fletz, Belgian biologist and philosopher; Leen Gorissen, biologist specializing in Ecology and Regenerative Design and Bioinspiring Innovation; and Christian Felber, promoter of the Theory of the Common Good. Within these two days, parallel sessions have also been held, practical cases have been presented and the annual report of Greening The Islands has been presented, among other proposals.
Incubazul has thus intervened once again as a reference model in Blue Economy in Andalusia.
This High Technology Incubator Project for the promotion of innovation and technology transfer to microSMEs in the blue economy sector in Andalusia “[BlueEcoIncuba x Logistical]Tech = ZONA BASE – INCUBAZUL 2.0” is 80% financed by the European Regional Development Fund within the Pluriregional Operational Program of Spain FEDER 2014-2020 OP. “A way of making Europe” within axis 3: Improving the Competitiveness of SMEs, Thematic Objective 3 Improving the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, and investment priority 3 Promotion of entrepreneurship, in particular, facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas, and promoting the creation of new companies, also through incubators.”
