New University instruments for spin-offs global growing. The case of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Research Park (UABRP). Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme

In this paper I analyze 20 knowledge based spin-offs generated at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) from 2001 to 2007 and their growing development. Once analyzed the results of the study I propose different mechanisms and instruments to improve entrepreneurship programs at Research Parks to generate global spin-offs within the support of public and private investment. These mechanisms will act from Research Parks to regional and global level. Nowadays at the UAB Research Park (UABRP) we are just implementing three new entrepreneurial and innovation instruments and mechanisms: project and product incubators for SMEs, technological antennas in faculty departments and technological centers, technological brokers and UniBA network support just to promote university and industry relations and global growing of spin-offs belonging to the entrepreneurship and innovation UABRP program.