| Contacts |
Juan Francisco Cordero
juanfcordero@gmail.com
http://www.innpulsar.com
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| Objectives |
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Entrepreneurship Awareness
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Export Revenues
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Income Generation
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Job Creation
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Policy Impact
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Profitable Enterprises
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Research Commercialization
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| Description |
INNPULSAR is the first Business Incubator of southern Ecuador, we have been working hard for almost seven years. Right now we have five different areas, covering different programs, the programs are:
InnTalents. We provide some educational programs in the fields of entrepreneurship spirit, management for SMEs, local development; we have made some strategic alliances with Junior Achievement Ecuador, and Young Americas Business Trust YABT from the Organization of American States OAS, on december 2010 we are a Nex Link Center as a YABT member (we are the representative office in Cuenca for both of them). We are also in alliance with the University of Cuenca, and we are doing a Postgraduate Program on Entrepreneurship and Innovation; those are some of the most important projects in InnTalents. We also have a virtual space: www.innpulsar.com/virtual. And a Facebook and Twitter, and Blog.
InnFondos. We are the link between the entrepreneurs and their financial needs, and we have provided some funds in an alliance with the three most important credit cooperatives (savings and credits) of Ecuador. We are also working with some public financial projects and Institutions such as Banco Nacional de Fomento BNF, Corporación Financiera Nacional CFN, the National Secretary of Migrants SENAMI. We are working with the Ministeries of Productivity MIPRO and the Ministery Coordinator of Productivity and Competitiviness of Ecuador MCPEC on the EmprendEcuador program.
InMarkets. We do market research and we provide marketing services to our incubators and clients.
InnSocials. We work with the rural people of Cuenca, with handicapped people; we manage some programs in order to improve their living conditions. We work with some Social and solidarity economic development projects. We have won some grants from AECID (Spain) and the European Union EU (in a partnership with other local NGO) in order to work with special programs in entrepreneurship to promote local development against the poverty in rural areas.
In InnProjects, we work with our incubatees' projects; specifically in the field of ICTs; we work in partnership with the cluster of software of Cuenca.
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| Interests |
Right now, we have the responsibility of building up a local network that will provide entrepreneur and incubator services for the southern region of Ecuador (this region consists of three provinces: Azuay, Canar and Morona Santiago). We are working in this project with the support of the Ministry of Industries of Ecuador (MIPRO) and also with a local development agency, ACUDIR. The project started with 5 Universities and 10 municipalities.
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| Services |
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Facilities: ICT services
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Facilities: Office space
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Facilities: Shared workshops
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Facilities: Special rates with service providers
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Finance: Equity Financing
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Finance: Financial management training
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Finance: Financial management/accounting services
Other:
Entrepreneur Education
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| Year Opened |
2004
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| Type |
NGO
(This incubator is associated with a technology park)
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| Model |
Not-for-profit
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| Sectors |
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Agriculture
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ICTs
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Manufacturing
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Mixed Use
Other:
We are a multipurpose business incubator.
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| Target Population |
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Rural poor
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Urban poor
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Women
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Youth
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| Advocacy |
This organization actively works to improve innovation and entrepreneurship policy and regulation
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