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The first phase of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) Cloud Hub Incubator, which will help young entrepreneurs and college students to create applications for smart phones (smartphones) and gadgets, begins with a successful response.
A total of 51 people in Spain have signed up to participate in what is known as Cloud Starting the development of a dozen applications for the Android Market by entrepreneurs.
Among those registered are Telecommunications and Industrial engineers, architects, economists, journalists and computer analysts, among others.
This first phase of the project proposals have been made of several parts of Spain such as Madrid, Catalonia, Valencia and Murcia.
In the coming days, the organizers will select 24 candidates.
These entrepreneurs will participate between 12 and 15 December in a workshop to generate business ideas funded by the program launched by the Ministry of Industry Together.
From that time and supported by the team of the Cloud Incubator Hub, comprising more than twenty academics from different fields of knowledge, will begin the phase of application development and creating a business plan.
The process will conclude in September 2012 with the establishment of enterprises engaged in the marketing of each app (application for smartphones).
"The project will not only serve to enable entrepreneurs to carry out their projects.
It also wants to promote a genuine culture of generating ideas and interest in the world of apps and the internet of things in the universities and to the extent we can, in Spanish society in general.
This is a sector with great economic potential of development and want to contribute our bit to which Spain is among the countries that contribute most, "says project director, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Andrés Iborra.
Cloud Incubator Hub ranked third among more than a hundred projects submitted to the program call 'joint undertaking' of the Ministry of Industry.
Source: UPCT
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