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Boosting ICT Entrepreneurship by Means of Cooperation

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Entrepreneurship is recognized nowadays as the driving force of a market economy and technology-driven entrepreneurship tends to become a standard for early-stage businesses in Europe and worldwide. In fact, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) holds a major part of any business nowadays. In this paper, Computing Innovation for Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE) project is presented. The project addresses the development of education for ICT Entrepreneurship in Romania, aiming to increase the development of new businesses, based on innovation and new technologies. By means of this project, both human capital and entrepreneurship initiatives will be enhanced. Founded by the EEA Grants Programme and developed in cooperation between University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) and Østfold University College (Norway), the primary targets are the development of teaching materials at master and bachelor level in order to train students in Management and Engineering and in Computer Science but also the development of entrepreneurial skills among academics. Increasing the quality and quantity of Romanian IT-driven business initiatives addresses directly the first two priority sectors of the EEA grants: Innovation, Research, Education and Competitiveness, as well as Social Inclusion, Youth Employment and Poverty Reduction.

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The work if partially funded by the project “Computing Innovation for Technology Entrepreneurship” Project Code: 18-COP-0012 funded by The EEA Grants.

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Colomo-Palacios, R. (2021). Boosting ICT Entrepreneurship by Means of Cooperation. In: Visvizi, A., Lytras, M.D., Aljohani, N.R. (eds) Research and Innovation Forum 2020. RIIFORUM 2020. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62066-0_33

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