Kick off meeting mission

from the12th to the 15th May 14

HITEC – Hebron Innovation Technopark

Feasibility study index

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1 - Context analysis

a) Legislative framework: Palestine Innovation Policies

• Law on the Encouragement of Investment (Law No. [1] of 1998 and amendments)

• Innovation policies: PIPA (Palestine Investment Promotion Agency)

b) Hebron economy context: statistics in Hebron about • Activity sectors, • Companies, • Human resources, • Graduate people Municipality of Hebron, PCBS - Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

HITEC | Feasibility study index

1 - Context analysis

c) Palestine Innovation actors & futures and on-going initiatives:

Main innovative sectors, actors and initiatives in Palestine : Palestine Polytechnic University (Hebron)Youth Development Resource Center (Hebron)EnterVentures (Birzeit University)Palestine Information and Communication Technology Incubator – PICTI and Palestine Business and Innovation Center - PBIC (Ramallah)Al Qattan Center (Gaza)Palestine for a New BeginningBusiness Development Centre in PalestineTechnology Incubator at An-NajahKorean Palestinian IT Institute of Excellence – KPITIE Palestinian IT Association - PITA

d) External stakeholders – International donors operating in research and innovation

e) Local economic, innovation and business needs :Chamber of Commerce – PPU - local companies

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2 - Analysis of the Italian experience

a) Evolution of the Technopark business model

Description of the technoparks model and evolution in Italy

b) Best practices in Innovation-related local policies

Presentation of some best practices developed to foster innovation at local level

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3 - Roles of the main local stakeholders

Brief description of the local stakeholders and of their role in the project

a) Hebron Municipality

b) National Government

c) Hebron Chamber of Commerce

d) Universities

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4 - HITEC Concept

a) Main functions

i. Incubator: to foster business creation

ii. Companies settlement: physical concentration of technology based business

iii. Network/cluster creation: to support measures for innovation

b) Target/market : sectors, companies,...

c) Services for the different functions: Incubator, Companies settlement and Network/cluster

d) General business model description

Proposals to be defined with the local partners

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5 - HITEC Governance

a) Definition of the involved actors: who? In what way?

b) Role of the different actors

c) Management of the HITEC: Description of the management system of the HITEC

d) Legal form

Proposals to be defined with the local partners

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6 - Business Plan

Economic and financial analysis related to the implementation of the HITEC in order to:

• Support the decision-making process

• Understand the economic and financial frame that the operation involves

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7 - Infrastructure plan

a) The site

i. Location: description of the potential site/s proposed by the local partners (may 2014)

ii. Access infrastructures (roads, rails and airports)

iii. Main characteristics (surface, geometry, zone, security procedure,...)

b) Spaces organization

i. Functions

ii. Logistics

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8 - HITEC implementation

General indications and best practices for HITEC implementation, regarding:

a) Fundraising

b) Attraction of investors

c) Realisation steps

d) Marketing

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9 - HITEC brochure

a) Logo

b) Contents

ENVIRONMENT PARK S.p.A.

Davide Damosso

davide.damosso@envipark.com

+39.011.2257224 / +39.349.0799803

envipark.com

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