BAUR invites to a business trip to Finland

Noncommercial Partnership Urals Association of Business Angels invites all interested to take part in a business trip to Finland, the purpose of which is business development, increasing the level of knowledge, searching for new partners.

The business travel is organized within the cooperation of BAUR with InnoPraxis Company, which began in early 2012. The aim of the cooperation is the promotion of the commercialization process in the Ural region of Russia, and the Russian-Finnish cooperation in innovation within the limits of the companies’ competences.

A joint event to be held on November 26-29, 2012 is designed to establish new business contacts, as well as training of managers and employees of small and medium enterprises, project managers. Also, the trip will be useful for managers and residents of technology parks and business incubators, entrepreneurs who want to take their business to the European market.

The program will include an advanced training for managers and residents of technology parks and incubators, as well as for entrepreneurs who want to cooperate with the organizations in the technology hub of Finland - Otaniemi - the center of science, research, business and education.

The participation in the Rubicon Forum is also scheduled. It is the first Russian-Finnish forum of business and investment opportunities. The participants of the business trip will familiarize themselves with the work of Helsinki University Alto, stock agency for Technology and Innovation (TEKES), Science Park Technopolis. All members of the delegation will be invited to the evening Reception by the Rubicon Forum organizers and business dinner with Finnish partners of Baur (Helsinki).

Applications for the business trip accepted till November 16. You need to send an e-mail you’re your application form to ratmanov@baural.ru (Igor Ratmanov), and receive the confirmation and the conditions of participation and all the other details.

Noncommercial Partnership Urals Association of Business Angels (BAUR) is a community of private investors in the projects at early stages of development; it has representation in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen region, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, Perm region, Germany and Austria. BAUR’s founders and first members are prominent businessmen and business structures of Ural region, including those with successful experience in start-ups financing and making them Russia's leading high-tech companies.

InnoPraxis International Ltd. is a Finnish consulting company, operating in the global market in order to create effective and innovative models that are in demand in the local market and competitive internationally.