Portugal. Because of this internationalized stance these projects are already attracting interest from foreign investors in capital projects carried out in Portugal." The IEI program met its goals, as represented in table 9.
Table 10 - IEI Program goals.
Specifically the IEI have: • • • •
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Adjusted focus of IEI in light of worldwide economic challenges to promote on knowledge-economy economic development Architected and launched a multi-year, multistage Venture Competition designed to be a sustainable and perpetual competition Venture Competition attracted a total of ninety-five early stage ventures and enrolled over three hundred sixty participants from Portugal, UK, and USA Launched several venues to connect “Innovators with Investors” o Venture Competition Semifinals 7/7/2010 t Keynote: Jonathan Medved, CEO Vringo, and Founder, Israel Seed Partners t Portuguese Catalyst “Speed-dating” venue with Semifinalists o eTeams Bootcamp t Hosted twenty (20) early stage high-tech teams at ISCTE-IUL for a 3-day entrepreneurial boot-camp o Venture Competition Track Finals 9/30/2010 t Keynotes: Manuel Heitor, Portugal Secretary of the State of Science and Technology José Epifânio da Franca, Co-Founder and Ex-CEO of Chipidea o Venture Competition Grand Finale 10/28/2010 t Keynotes: Prof. Douglas P. Hart, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, cofounder Brontes Technologies, Inc. (acquired by 3M in 2006), and Lantos Technologies Dr. Andrey Zarur, Manager Partner, Kodiak Ventures