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The Ascamm Foundation created the first virtual community for businesses

25/02/2008

February 25, 2008

The Ascamm Foundation, headquartered in the Parc Tecnológic del Vallès (Cerdanyola) has created the first virtual community among entrepreneurs, and/or manufacturing companies in order to generate new products and technologies of a national fruit of the collaboration and technology transfer between diverse resources societiescapabilities and additional needs. All this with the ultimate goal of strengthening the national manufacturing industrial fabric, through the strengthening of links between the various groups existing and the consolidation of its productive activity and business.

This tool on-line of contact and Exchange emerges from a new project, led by Ascamm, and developed with the collaboration of AITIIP and Aiju, called Mapropo (technological and competitive improvement at company subcontractors or EBTs - technology based companies-) (, own product manufacturing-oriented). This project has been supported by the Ministry of industry, tourism and trade, under the promotion of business innovation Innoempresa line.

With this initiative, and over the Internet, is intended to generate a collective community of exchange of supply and demand between enterprises and/or entrepreneurs, with the aim of improving mutual knowledge of industrial activity engaged in and contemplate possible agreements that allow to develop new projects and products.

To this end, the Ascamm technology centre, with the technical help of the signature PLASTY, has developed in recent months an Internet portal (http://mapropo.plastia.com), in which stakeholders can be displayed, once registered as users, different offers and demands for products and manufacturing projectsas well as the details and most significant of each of these peculiarities.

Also, and through this link, companies and businessmen interested, they can also exchange technical views on certain aspects relating to the manufacture of a given product or share assessments or analyses of future corporate initiatives or new processes of innovation and research.