Parc UPC: pushing entrepreneurship for a successful innovation ecosystem

Entrepreneurship, in all its dimensions and its variants, constitutes one of the main elements of the innovation system. In this regard, Parc UPC has established support mechanisms for entrepreneurship, that improve the innovation ecosystem, and contribute to social and economic development of the country. On the one hand, Parc UPC, as a university science and technology park, has all the elements of the value chain of entrepreneurship related to business creation, and it has worked and must continue to work in developing entrepreneurial skills programs for university students, accompayning them throughout the process of project development and company creation, and incubating their companies in a favorable environment for their growth. On the other hand, the high concentration of knowledge, technology and innovation generated by both the start-ups and spin-offs located in the park, and generated by the research groups and centers, are very attractive to undertake corporate entrepreneurship activities.