TRIPLE HELIX noms.pmd

They must work on each of the next items:1. Leading their local stakeholders. Towns need to be able to join the forces of all their local stakeholders -Chamber of commerce,employer's organizations, professional associations, university and technology centers, savings banks and/or insurancecompanies, hospitals,....- and local government is the natural leader for this joint movement.2. Leading the local strategy plan definition. Defining a strategical plan is a very good way to get all the stakeholders workingjointly in the same direction. It's a good way as well to share and distribute functions, and assigning responsibilities to thedifferent stakeholders.3. Stimulating innovation in town. It's important to disseminate the idea of innovation amongst the population and telling thatinnovation is not only technology and that any person may be innovative.4. Stimulating entrepreneurship is basic since most of the businesses that will be active in 10 years time are not existing today.We need new entrepreneurs with with new ideas to set up the local companies of the future. This work must start at schools byteaching young students that creating their own personal projects is a way for their professional career.5. Promoting business creation and development, by providing a good support to any entrepreneur who wants to set up a newinitiative. Incubators are a good way to provide this support.6. Helping in setting up an attraction and landing service for talent and businesses. Once the local knowledge and businesssystem is working and the area has found its fields of speciality, it needs a plan to promote the area and some service to attracttalent and to help this talent to install in the area.7. Helping in the funding of some key local projects promoted by other local stakeholders or entrepreneurs.8. Finally, but not the less important, is higher administrations lobbying in order to get funding, knowledge and technologyinfrastructure,......Madrid, October 20, 21 & 22 - 2010173