【大紀元2014年06月29日訊】（大紀元記者王志成報導）6月27日，台灣經濟部中小企業處處長葉雲龍與歐洲商業育成中心網絡(European Business & Innovation Center Network, EBN)主席Philippe Vanrie於 EBN第23屆國際育成年會，在西班牙列伊達(Lleida)簽署雙方育成合作備忘錄(MOU)，協助台灣育成企業打入歐洲產業供應及價值鏈，並拓展台歐商機。
EBN主席Philippe Vanrie表示，台灣是個創新之島，同時也是亞太的商業及交通樞紐，近幾年台灣商業育成及創新活動蓬勃發展，帶動的經濟能量讓我們相當關注。
他強調，藉由建構台歐商業育成合作平台，不僅協助了台灣廠商跨入歐洲市場，同時也讓台灣成為歐洲企業進軍亞太市場的跳板。
葉雲龍則以「創業的策略性思維」為題，在會中分享台灣政府針對青年創業的策略性規畫及政策制定，如推動一系列青年創業加速育成方案，銜接青年校園創業競賽，並透過學校型育成中心，加上工研院、交通大學、中原大學及資策會等4大育成加速器聯盟能量挹注，協助台灣中小企業及青年創業。
經濟部中小企業處與歐洲商業育成網絡(EBN) 的合作始於2011年，旨在拓展台歐商機、深化創業育成合作及推動育成國際化。
此次台歐簽訂加速企業育成合作備忘錄，主要由工業技術研究院與「台灣企業國際化協助網絡」(Taiwan Globalization Network, TGN)安排, 旨在持續推動與落實「經濟部中小企業處新興產業加速育成計畫」。
為協助國內中小企業加速成長，工業院與TGN特籌組「2014年赴荷蘭及西班牙參加商業媒合會議訪問團」，於6月21日至29日在荷蘭舉辦台灣商機日(Taiwan Business Day)商業媒合會議以及赴西班牙參加第23屆EBN年會，希冀透過參與此兩大年度盛事，為我國業者爭取更多商業媒合機會，早日布局並深入歐洲市場。
【新聞小辭典】EBN(European Business & Innovation Center Network)位於比利時，設立於1984年，屬歐盟之半官方機構，除在歐洲地區結合超過250個組織，同時亦涵蓋阿拉伯聯合大公國、薩爾瓦多、中國大陸及敘利亞等其他非歐洲地區組織，其任務是支持具有潛力的創新中小企業的設立，執行創業者及各專案的篩選以及監控，並協助地方中小企業系統的管理，也提供弱勢團體自行創業所需的相關協助。
SMEA signs MOU to build a platform and speed up incubation cooperation
Under the witness of more than 600 incubation center professionals and guests, the MOEA’s SMEA Director General Johnny YEH and the European Business & Innovation Centre Network (EBN) Chairman Philippe Vanrie had signed the Joint Incubation Cooperation MOU on June 27 in the 23rd EBN Annual Meeting, Lleida, Spain. This MOU aims to sustain mutual cooperation built from 2011, to strengthen incubation center cooperation through internationalization, and to bring together talent, capital markets, create more business opportunities between Taiwan and Europe and benefit for all.
EBN Chairman Philippe Vanrie stated that Taiwan is known for its innovative capability and flexibility, and, at the same time, serves as the Asia- Pacific commerce and traffic hub. Blooming developments of Taiwan’s commercial incubation, innovative events and its powerful economic strength cannot be ignored. With the signing of this MOU, we will be further dedicated to the mutual formation of the TW-EU networking platforms to support SMEs to harness European market potential, generate more business opportunities and, most important of all, to hasten close industrial cooperation between Taiwan and Europe on the basis of reciprocity.
Under the leadership of SMEA Director General YEH, a delegation from Taiwan consisting of Start-Up Taiwan Accelerator alliances, incubation center professionals and a number of SMEs, had attended the 23rd EBN Annual Meeting from June 25 to 27 in Lleida, Spain. This year’s Meeting theme “Empower Youth; Accelerate Entrepreneurship; Transform Lives” seeks to encourage the youth to establish innovative businesses, harness the resources of cross-border incubation, and to solve unemployment issues.
Director General YEH has been invited to be the Plenary Speaker in this EBN meeting and delivered a speech on “Strategic Thinking for Entrepreneurship” in the morning of June 27, sharing Taiwan’s experiences in strategic thinking and policy-making to empower entrepreneurship of next generation. Director General YEH pointed out the Taiwan unemployment rate has continued to show an upward tendency ever since 2009. In light of high unemployment rate issue, SMEA has promoted a series of youth entrepreneurship acceleration policies and youth entrepreneurship competitions. With the efforts of University incubation centers and the four Start-Up Taiwan Accelerator alliances: Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU) and Institute for Information Industry (III), we are able to assist SMEs and youth entrepreneurship to develop and prosper.
To enhance business opportunities and cooperation between Taiwan and Europe, we and TNG jointly held “Taiwan Business Day (TBD)” on June 23, in Rotterdam, the Netherland. TGN and ITRI had intensively coached 10 selected Taiwanese companies to improve their internalization competitiveness in advance. Monthly evaluation had been done to improve the effectiveness of this Taiwan-Europe business matching event. SMEs from both sides were quiet satisfied with the outcome and effectiveness of TBD. ITRI, TGN and Business Angel Europe (BAE) had signed a MOU on TBD this year to establish connections and generate more business opportunities under the witness of SMEA.
The Joint Incubation Cooperation MOU between SMEA and EBN and ITRI-TGN-BAE partnership aim to build a TW-EU co-incubation and business matching mechanism. With the mechanism establishment, it will inspire new thinking, create new opportunities and develop new technologies for SMEs and start-ups, assisting them to born global and go global.
