Technical Assistance to the AVE Park bid to the tender involving the support to Science and Technology Parks and technology-based firms incubating infrastructures

The technical assistance consisted of helping the AVE Park management unity to prepare a bid to the Regional OP Norte, aiming at co-funding the physical and organizational  consolidation of the infrastructure within the framework of support to Science and Technology parks and Incubators of technology-based firms. The work made was focused on the assessment of the crucial role played by the European Excellency Center of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and of the headquarters of the Laboratory 3B's in developing the AVE Park. The relevance and excellency of the scientific outputs generated by this institution and the mass of advance human resources hosted by the Institute have been analyzed in depth, considering the national and regional contexts as a reference. The contribution of the project to the regional competitiveness was emphasized as well. The technical assistance  also helped to conceive immaterial projects for the organizational  consolidation of the infrastructure, such as the implementation of an information system able to follow-up and monitoring strategically the Ave park activities and to disseminate the management and innovative good practices.