The rector of the UPCT, Jose Antonio Franco, today introduced the new Office of Entrepreneurship and technology-based companies, aimed at advising the entrepreneurship initiatives of both students and teachers and researchers UPCT.Durante the opening ceremony, the who have assisted authorities and business in the region and UPCT students, employers and attracting investment specialist Miguel Huguet has pronounced a conference on financing business ideas in which he stated that "if the projects are good and offer cost , you can always get funding. "Office, which is based in the Faculty of Business, Chair integrates the activities of entrepreneurs and seeks to generate entrepreneurship among the academic community, training teachers and students in the capabilities of entrepreneurship, advise on economic and financial, providing coordination between entrepreneurship initiatives at the University and outsiders of job creation, such as the Chamber of Commerce and the Institute of Development.
The Office will also contact the network entrepreneurs or business-angel investors who bet on innovative ideas.
"The hardest thing is to get funding, but first to be formed," says the professor of the School of Telecommunications UPCT John Monzo, who along with Domingo Garcia Perez de Lema, Professor of the Faculty of Business, will lead the Oficina.Dirigida teachers who want to transfer their knowledge through a company and students who opt for self-employment, the Office will be located on the first floor of the Faculty of Sciences of the Company and will have a space of entrepreneurship in the ELDI ( Laboratory Building, Teaching and Research), which will be launched next year.
Miguel Huguet: "If the projects are profitable, are funding"
The entrepreneur and business angel Michael Huguet, a specialist in raising funds for entrepreneurial initiatives, today encouraged students, teachers and researchers UPCT to start their own business and said that "if the projects are good and offer cost, you can always get funding. "
In this regard, he recalled that "family offices, which previously invested in real estate or venture capital organized markets, and do not, for obvious reasons, so you have excess liquidity" and are potential funders entrepreneurial projects.
Huguet, who has given a lecture at the Faculty of Business at the launch of the Office of Entrepreneurship UPCT, has called for greater focus on innovation and entrepreneurship.
Source: UPCT