Entrepreneurship
International Programs
Since 2008 the FPCM has been a member of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), the largest support network for SMEs with international projection. Promoted by the European Commission, the EEN has 3000 professionals – from more than 600 organisations with a presence in 60 countries – who offer services at no cost for SMEs to grow quickly and be competitive: search for commercial alliances, technology transfer agreements and access to financing.
The FPCM is part of the EEN Madrid consortium, coordinated by the Madri+d Foundation for Knowledge. As part of the activities of this network, the FPCM offers companies: search and management of their offers and demands for R+D, technology and business, support in the presentation of proposals in European R+D+i programs, advice on the internal market, laws, standards and European regulations, and on the market and foreign business, consultations with the European Commission, organisation of information sessions on the services of the EEN, training sessions on specific topics of scientific-technological entrepreneurship and opportunities for European funding, brokerage events for the search for partners, etc.
EIT Health is the health knowledge community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.
Its objective is to promote innovation in these sectors, connecting and promoting the collaboration of leading EU organisations from the three vertices of the so-called “knowledge triangle”: research, business and education.
More than 130 organisations across Europe make up EIT Health. Its activities include acceleration programmes to promote new business ideas and start-ups, innovation projects to respond to the major health challenges on the continent, training programmes to promote innovation in the sector and a think tankto contribute to the debate on health policy in Europe.
The FPCM is part of EIT Health and collaborates in different programmes, such as BridgeHead, focused on projecting innovative companies in the health sector internationally, both within the EU single market and beyond.
Madrid DIH Bio is part of a European network of Digital Innovation Hubs to promote Biosciences, Biotechnology and Health through digital technologies.
The DIH Bio develop digital innovation so that companies and the administration benefit from technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC) and cybersecurity, foster an open innovation ecosystem of public-private cooperation and contribute to regional development by uniting universities, research centres, companies, administration and support entities.
Madrid DIH Bio also offers technical expertise and experimentation for companies to “test before investing”, facilitates the connection of those who need new technological solutions with companies that already have them available, provides support in advanced digital skills and allows access to financial institutions, investors and advisors.
In 2003, the European Space Agency (ESA) created Business Incubation Centres (BICs) to turn space technology developments into commercial ideas outside the field of space.
ESA BIC Comunidad de Madrid is the Business Incubation Centre in the region, where 95% of Spain’s space sector is concentrated. Coordinated by the Madri+d Foundation for Knowledge, ESA BIC Madrid offers incentives to business projects and start-ups that use space technologies or develop applications based on them to create products and services applied in our daily lives.
The program has the FPCM as a business incubator, which has already hosted 13 companies with applications as diverse as: environmental, agricultural, livestock or infrastructure monitoring and optimization, drones and unmanned vehicles for very diverse environments, production of nanoparticles and coatings.
