AGROINNOECO

The project builds on theBalkan Med Region’s entrepreneurship potential in order to improve territorial competitiveness, while promoting and supporting the emergence of SMEs through overcoming the gap between entrepreneurship and innovation skills and business practice. The project focuses on defining an experimental methodology that will try to facilitate the innovation transfer to the Agrifood (inc.agri/aquaculture) sector through supporting a structure for innovative entrepreneurship in order to enhance the capacity of SMEs’ through the implementation of both, ICT applications and training, in order to grow towards other markets and introduce innovation in all phases of their business cycle. The project addresses the concept of “pre-incubation” as an important mechanism for providing the necessary knowledge and skills to young innovators and existing entrepreneurs.
The overall objective of the project is to improve innovative territories by unleashing territorial potential to improve the transnational innovation capacity of the business sector and developing the appropriate environment in the Balkan Med regions, where potential entrepreneurs with a feasible business idea in will be subject to an experimental learning process that will help them acquire the diverse tools and skills required to implement their ideas into a viable business start-up.
Stakeholders and beneficiaries of the project activities are young entrepreneurs and business organizations of the agri-food