The pilot Project SERBATEC for the creation of a Cross-border Net of Resources and Technology-based Services aimed at creating the right conditions to favour the creation and consolidation of technology-based companies in the Galicia - North of Portugal Euroregion, giving priority to the structuring of an interior axis (Lugo / Ourense / Braga / Porto) concurring with the so-called Atlantic Axis.
The initiative gave rise to a portal (www.serbatec.com) designed in team by Galician and Portuguese partners under the protection of the INTERREG IIIA Community Initiative.
This portal tries to help businessmen, entrepreneurs and, on the whole, any person who has an idea of business and who seeks information to create his/her company or to site it in any place in the Galicia – North of Portugal Euroregion.
In this sense, SERBATEC has a number of tools which provide the user with information about the following questions: search for financing, location of industrial ground, site of the resources of the chain of value of the companies in particular sectors, and information about entities of interest related to the protection of knowledge.
Critic services
The project gives support to the initiatives of cross-border technological cooperation facilitating the access of companies with a technological basis to a number of critic services that no other project or net of the area offers, such as:
- Tools for knowledge protection. The objective of these tools is to increase the number of patents and copyright offices in the Euroregion.
- Mechanisms of support to the marketing of products and services. Due to the constant process of internalization, the companies need to increase their business dimension looking for the attainment of several cooperation agreements and their technological innovation, with impact on both production and distribution processes and on management as well. With the aim of helping companies of the area in this field, SERBATEC offers to the entrepreneurs and technological companies of the area local logistic packages (University – CIT – Companies – Associations – Clusters – Company Centres) and tools of technological diagnosis on-line.
- Tools and financing opportunities in the Euroregion. This tool supports to design of financing strategies on-line for a better exploitation of the tools of public and private financing of the company.
- Resources of business support present in the region. It includes support infrastructures, industrial ground, financing tools, marketing, etc. which are complemented by local logistic packages to identify critical agents in the very chain of value. The idea of using these two tools is to increase the contact between companies and institutions with a technological basis at both sides of the border, and to facilitate the capture of industrial investments in the Euroregion, related to locational advantages or associated to processes of expansion of other industrial centres (for example, the automobile sector, textile sector, etc. ) and this way face the scarce foreign investment in the area. This service is very important considering the increasing competitiveness between regions for the capture of companies and investments, visitors and community funds.