Aims of project: To promote new innovative high growth firms (e.g. “gazelles”) by encouraging entrepreneurial creativity, providing needed support and evaluating needs for early stage risk finance. Project aims to solve identified common for partner regions (Kurzeme, Riga and South Estonia) market failure to release innovative spinouts from regional research centres and Higher Education Institutions fuelled by partnership, mutual learning and mobility activities, and required external competence.
On 4 August 2009, the VHTP and the Ministry of Regional Development and Local Governments signed a contract on implementation of the project „Cooperation between Ventspils and Tartu in Space Technology Research and Training”.
The project has received support from Norway through Norwegian government bilateral financing instrument.
On 4 February I. Eglajs, chairman of the board of Ventspils High Technology Park (VHTP), signed a contract with the Society Integration Foundation on implementation of the project „Space Technologies – Opportunity for Education and Economic Development”. The project is supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.
Since December 2008 the foundation “Ventspils High Technology Park” (VHTP) has started realization of the project “Smart Regions – Expert Support to Development of Latvian Satellite Technology Centre”.
The project is supported by a grant from Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism.