Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

Smart city development concept aims to find integrated solutions to the sustainability challenges requiring new ways of collaboration and more integrated business support. New open innovation co-creative methods are efficient tools to combine and turn innovative ideas into business and utilize the international mix of knowhow and talents in the process. BELT focuses on developing joint and cooperating business opportunities under the theme of “Smart City”, which is a priority at the EU-level and many regional innovation policies to support cross-sectoral “smart innovations”. BELT organizes road shows in universities of each partner location to attract entrepreneurship oriented, already experienced and talented students as well as potential start-ups to the project incubator activities. BELT organizes in each partner location joint business development BootCamps and joint coaching that will help the students to develop a viable path to commercialize their business ideas as well as connect students and start-ups to look for additional team members across borders, develop and commerzialise smart business ideas with them. Partners together with external business experts, business angels and academic representatives will facilitate the BootCamps. More specific themes of BootCamps will be selected based on the interests of final selected participants. A coaching network will be created to offer business coaching for established joint teams and best co-operating business ideas from BootCamps to help them find seed funding for their businesses. The project will result in at least 5 joint and 10 co-operating knowledge intensive enterprises. The project will support 30 new knowledge intensive enterprises in the Central Baltic region.

Achievements (EN):

BELT - start-ups in the Central Baltic region: The BELT project improved start-up culture within the Central Baltic region in various ways. For instance, four BootCamps were organised under the Smart City theme in Jurmala, Helsinki, Norrköping and Tampere. In total, 86 start-ups or teams participated in them, along with individual business ideas. Although no international joint companies were created, one regional start-up was born with the help of the project. Co-operation between start-ups was active with 15 projects partaking. Co-operation took place e.g. through utilising contacts from other start-ups, gaining information about regional markets and exchanging feedback with each other. BELT coaches and mentors gave many consultations and during the project, a network of coaches, start-ups and teams was established. Project targeted to support 30 new enterprises and 30 existing enterprises. The target was reached and support was given altogether for 47 new enterprises and 47 existing enterprises. Findings and best practices from the BELT project mare gathered into a Coaching Manual.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R1.1. Number of new joint or co-operating knowledge intensive enterprises

Expected Outputs (EN): The project will result in altogether at least 5 joint and 10 co-operating knowledge intensive enterprises.

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: New Central Baltic knowledge intensive companies

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Suomen Itämeri-instituutti

Address: Nalkalankatu 12, FI-33200 Tampere, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.baltic.org

Total budget: EUR 224 085.33

ERDF budget: EUR 168 064.00

PULSE HUB/Demola Latvia

Name: PULSE HUB/Demola Latvia

Department: -

Address: Kaļķu Street 12, LV-1050 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://latvia.demola.net/

Total budget: EUR 16 870.19

ERDF budget: EUR 14 339.66

Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte

Name: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte

Address: Kalku iela 1, LV-1658 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rtu.lv/

Total budget: EUR 153 742.90

ERDF budget: EUR 130 681.46

Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu/Spinno Enterprise Center

Name: Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu/Spinno Enterprise Center

Address: Ratatie 22, FI-01300 Vantaa, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://spinno.fi/

Total budget: EUR 220 200.00

ERDF budget: EUR 165 150.00

Innovaatio Oy Uusi Tehdas

Name: Innovaatio Oy Uusi Tehdas

Address: Väinö Linnan aukio 15, FI-33210 Tampere, Finland

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.hermiagroup.fi/

Total budget: EUR 272 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 204 000.00

Latvijas Informācijas tehnoloģiju klasteris

Name: Latvijas Informācijas tehnoloģiju klasteris

Address: Skolas Street 11, LV-1010 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.itbaltic.com

Total budget: EUR 4 574.41

ERDF budget: EUR 3 888.25

Almi East Sweden AB/Demola East Sweden

Name: Almi East Sweden AB/Demola East Sweden

Department: -

Address: Laxholmatorget 3, SE-60221 Norrköping, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website (not verified): http://www.almi.se/English/

Total budget: EUR 185 576.18

ERDF budget: EUR 139 182.14

Norrköping Science Park AB/ Demola East Sweden

Name: Norrköping Science Park AB/ Demola East Sweden

Address: Laxholmstorget 3, SE-60221 Norrköping, Sweden

Legal status: private

Website: http://eastsweden.demola.net

Total budget: EUR 24 802.31

ERDF budget: EUR 18 601.73

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PULSE HUB/Demola Latvia

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

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Riga Technical University

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

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Laurea University of Applied Sciences/Spinno Enterprise Center

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

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New Factory Ltd.

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

Partners and Projects info

Latvian Information Technologies Cluster

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

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Almi East Sweden AB/Demola East Sweden

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

Partners and Projects info

Norrköping Science Park / Demola East Sweden

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

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Suomen Itämeri-instituutti

Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

Lead partner

Project partner

Summary

Project name (EN): Baltic Entrepreneurship Laboratories

Project acronym: BELT

Project start date: 2015-10-01

Project end date: 2018-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 101 851.32

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 843 907.24

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 843 907.24.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

BELT coaching manual, part 3

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BELT coaching manual, part 1

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BELT coaching manual, part 2

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://database.centralbaltic.eu/results

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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