The Asia Region Business Incubators workshop will be held the first week of October 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The workshop aims to build policy maker and stakeholder awareness of the potential of business incubation, and to build the capacity of incubator managers in the region. Technology transfer, working with universities and internationalization of firms will be featured and manager capacity building will revolve around innovation facilitation and quality performance. Please see the attached pre-announcement for details. Program updates will be added here shortly.

Incubation Asia: The infoDev Incubation Asia Network (IDIANET) has appointed CRC-TOPIC Business Incubator to prepare for the workshop.

For more information on the workshop please contact: Mr. Pham Minh Tuan from the Centre for Research and Consulting (CRC) at Hanoi University of Technology at tuan@crc.edu.vn

For more information about the Asia Region Incubation Network please contact Michi Barcelon at barcelon.mm@ayalafoundation.org

infoDev's Regional Facilitator for overall activities in Asia is Mr. Julian Webb.