CEEIARAGÓN

. CEEI was founded in 1992 aiming to support the creation of innovative SMEs and to promote the initiation of innovative activities of entrepreneurs. Our mission is to contribute to the growth of Aragon by means of providing support to entrepreneur and managerial projects in all their areas and during all their stages in order to foster and ensure projects´ success. Since 1992, CEEIARAGON has managed to become a centre of reference in the field of development and consolidation of projects related to companies of technological base. CEEI, as a business incubator, offers a wide set of services including leasing and advising: Leasing of modular business premises and space for industrial use and/or business services, leasing of logistic services, administrative and computing services, permanent information service, permanent tutorial service, … And advising services in the following fields: management, marketing, consulting and technology, discussions, forums, data bases, guidelines for businesses creation, funding management, training programmes, etc. In order to provide which quality services, CEEIARAGON relies on a set of eighteen multidisciplinary experts, including: economists, specialists in marketing and industrial engineers. CEEI has been active for 25 years during which, we have managed to support the setting up of more than 140 innovative and technological and to create more than 5.100 jobs. We are currently comprised of 45 star-ups (31 in Saragossa, 5 in Huesca and 9 in Teruel), and count on more than 300 employees. An additional mission of CEEI is focused on spreading the entrepreneurial spirit within our region; in this context we have supported more than 6.400 entrepreneurs in the process of idea creation, business model generation, business plan development, and setting up process. When spreading entrepreneurial spirit, CEEI works closely with the university, and also targets children and youths by its awareness and motivation program aimed at schools (which directly reaches 4.000 students each year). We are present in the three provinces of Aragon: Saragossa, Huesca and Teruel. Our delegations are located nearby universities, technological and innovation centres and Science parks, as they are considered suitable environments for fostering the development of entrepreneurs´ talent. CEEI is also present in smaller towns in the region aiming to facilitate and support the creation of new businesses, which are often not characterized by their high innovative or technological nature, but whose entry in the market will substantially reinforce the development of the area where they are located. Last but not least, CEEIARAGÓN, belongs of the Spanish Association of Business Incubators (ANCES). Additionally, European BICs are integrated in a single European network: the European and Innovation Centre Network (EBN), which consists of an international scientific and technical association, which brings together more than 150 BIC throughout Europe. Since its beginnings, EBN was conceived by the European Commission as an international network that would allow the exchange of information and experiences amongst BICs and that would encourage technological, commercial and financial cooperation between them and their clients.