Innobasque, the Basque Innovation Agency, is a private non-profit association established to coordinate and promote innovation throughout the Basque Country and to encourage entrepreneurial spirit and creativity at all levels. Our head office is located in Bilbao.

Innobasque is made up of agents from the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation, private businesses, Basque public institutions, institutional representatives of Basque workers and business people and organisations of any kind related to innovation.

Innobasque strives to offer a powerful platform and cooperation network to all its members. Through which the following are developed: activities which promote the values and attitudes associated with innovation in Basque society;activities that transmit an image of an innovative Basque country - the epicentre of R&D&I.

PromoMadrid, Desarrollo Internacional de Madrid, S.A. is a regional government-owned company, incorporated in 2004 with the purpose of promoting and developing the Region of Madrid internationally from an economic perspective. PromoMadrid acts under the authority of the Madrid Regional Ministry of Economy and Finance Affairs.

PromoMadrid´s objective is to support local companies in the Madrid Region throughout their internationalisation activities, to attract and retain foreign investment and to carry out and support actions which aim to enhance the presence, perception and appraisal of the region, its companies and institutions, as well as its cultural heritage and economic potential.

Enterprise Estonia is one of the largest institutions within the national support system for entrepreneurship in Estonia, providing financing products, advice, partnership opportunities and training for entrepreneurs, research and development institutions and the public and third sectors. Enterprise Estonia actively operates in the following areas: the enhancement of the competitiveness of Estonian enterprises in foreign markets, the inclusion of foreign direct investments, inbound and domestic tourism, the elaboration of technological and innovative products and services, the development of Estonian enterprises and the entrepreneurial environment and the enhancement of general entrepreneurial awareness.

Enterprise Estonia is one of the institutions responsible for the implementation of EU structural funds in Estonia, as well as being the primary provider of support and development programmes targeted towards entrepreneurs. The agency was founded in 2000 by the Ministry of Economic Affairs with the aim of promoting the competitiveness of the Estonian entrepreneurial environment and Estonian businesses, thereby increasing prosperity.

Aderly (The Lyon Area Economic Development Agency) is one of the first economic development agencies created in France. Founded in 1974, it is also among the first to have developed in international markets, with the creation of offices in New York and Tokyo.

The Agency’s co-founders are the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Greater Lyon, the Rhône County Council and the Lyon-Rhône MEDEF Business Association. Aderly operates with vital support from some sixty active members, including firms, international leaders in education and research, decision-makers and other key figures in the Lyon area’s economic life.

Aderly works in close collaboration with the Invest in France Agency (IFA) and its many delegations abroad, as well as with the competitive clusters of the Lyon region: Lyonbiopôle, Axelera, Lyon Urban Truck & Bus, Imaginove, Techtera, and others.

Aderly runs the Lyon World Trade Center and is a partner of the economic governance program, Greater Lyon: A Business Spirit”. As part of this scheme, since 2007 ADERLY has been in charge of the local-area marketing strategy ONLYLYON.

Innovation Norway promotes nationwide industrial development profitable to both the business economy and Norway's national economy, and helps release the potential of different districts and regions by contributing towards innovation, internationalisation and promotion. With offices in all counties and in more than thirty countries worldwide, Innovation Norway offers products and services intended to help boost innovation in business and industry nationwide, foster regional development and promote Norwegian industry and Norway as a tourist destination.

According to its objects clause, Innovation Norway is to be backer and promoter of entrepreneurs, newly-founded and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that seek to grow, as a rule in an international market. The organisation’s role is to provide or arrange financing, link customer enterprises to know-how and help them build networks for their innovation projects. Our core group of clients are Norwegian companies, predominantly SMEs. Our head office is located in Oslo.

Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the indigenous business sector. Our mission is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.

Through our extensive network of Irish and international offices, we work with our clients to assist them to compete and to grow.

Our key focus for Irish companies is covered under the following five areas of activity:

• Achieving export sales
• Investing in research and innovation
• Competing through productivity
• Starting up & scaling up
• Driving regional enterprise

We also provide assistance for international companies who are searching for world-class Irish suppliers and we can help international companies who want to set up food and drink manufacturing operations in Ireland.