NONAGON - Science and Tecnology Park of São Miguel - Azores

This practice address to low knowledge transference between university and companies, low degree of cooperation between the actors of the quadruple helix, low early stage rate of entrepreneurial activity and the low level of innovative culture. It provides a series of general services (administrative support) and value added services (business modelling, planning, access to investors, signposting, bridging researchers and companies, among others) besides housing, and through those it fosters the competitiveness based upon innovation of start-ups and SME’s. The stakeholders are the Regional Government of the Azores (Regional Directorate for Science and Technology, Azores Business Development Society), Municipality of Lagoa. The beneficiaries are potential entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and SME’s mainly in the field of ICT. The main objectives are: creating the conditions for the promotion of technology-based entrepreneurship, encouraging cultural change, intergenerational, favoring a proactive attitude, cooperation and information sharing; fostering the diffusion of innovative practices in companies and facilitate the relationship between them and the entities of the scientific and technological system; orienting the strategy and the operational actions within the clusters with greater innovative potential and monitoring the activities of technology-based entrepreneurship, priming results. NONAGON has a EU|BIC accreditation, recently renewed.