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Institution In Charge.. : ..InWEnt - Capacity Building International, Germany
Language.................... : ..English
Partner Organizations
• NSTDA National Science & Technology Development Agency. Government Agency
.. (co-founder of Thai-BISPA)
• InWEnt Regional Office for Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. Representation of German NGO
.. in Hanoi (MOU for cooperation with NSTDA since 2001)
• InWEnt Regional Office for Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand. Representation of German
.. NGO in Manila (MOU for cooperation with NSTDA since 2001)
Target Participants
• Representatives from Thai business incubators
• Representatives from other innovation support-organizations - not located in Thailand
.. Science Park or Bangkok
• Representatives from the organizations in neighboring countries: Vietnam, Cambodia,
.. and Philippines
Objectives
• Strengthening the Thai business incubation system by fostering networking and
.. collaboration along the supply chain of entrepreneurial support in Thailand including the
.. Thai business incubators, Thai-BISPA – the network of business incubators, and the other
.. innovation support organizations;
• Leveraging ICT through integrating an electronic knowledge management system (eKMS)
.. into a project website to support the performance monitoring and evaluation and to create
.. knowledge of good practices in incubator management;
• Networking to quantify and improve the impact of the incubation system in Thailand ;
• Elaborating a standard for performance monitoring and evaluation of Thai business
.. incubators and to test its applicability;
• Improving the monitoring and evaluation skills of Thai business incubator managements
.. in order to increase their capacities for self-assessment.
All objectives consider a cross-border transfer of the Thai experiences to interested (future) incubator projects in Vietnam , Cambodia , and the Philippines. Cross-border networking will be realized with:
• a project partner with 2 regional coordination offices in the partner countries ensuring the
.. networking, promotion and the knowledge dissemination within these countries;
• a monitoring committee composed of representatives from each partner and a project
.. team from each partner to ensure real cross-border collaboration;
• 17 representatives from the partner countries participating in 2 networking events in
.. Thailand with an opportunity to foster contacts with the Thai business incubation
.. community;
• the project website “Mekong Region Business Incubators Alliances (MBIA)” in Thai and
.. English, with some sections in Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino to facilitate the
.. access to the knowledge compiled within the project;
• a database with good practices in incubator management for sharing experiences;
• the publications from the project, particularly the Report on “Benchmarking of Thai
.. business incubation system” openly available;
• a Thai standard for performance monitoring and evaluation, tested for its applicability in
.. Thailand with ICT support by an electronic knowledge management system (eKMS), which
.. could be adopted by the partner countries' business incubators;
• the explicit strategic objective of Thai-BISPA, the business incubator network, to become a
.. contacting point to international partners and to encourage business incubators in
.. Thailand to develop strategic alliances with relevant organizations in Thailand and abroad.
Contents
Activity 1.
Design and organization of regional network activities of the Thai business incubators network to strengthen the anchor function of Thailand in the Mekong Region
Activity 2. Operating a project website “Mekong Region Business Incubators Alliances (MBIA)” with eKMS
Activity 3. Improving monitoring and evaluation skills of business incubator managements within Thai-BISPA
Activity 4. Testing a Thai standard for monitoring and evaluation of Thai business incubator operations
Activity 5. Project management and coordination.
Methods: round table meetings, trainings, networking, events, and workshops
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