38. Emphasises the importance of developing innovation skills in general and support for employee-driven innovation in both new and existing companies; stresses also that the most entrepreneurially successful companies are often spin-offs from existing companies where employees have the opportunity to develop their ideas within secure and resourceful frameworks; stresses furthermore that many entrepreneurs have skilled or unskilled backgrounds, so entrepreneurial efforts should not be aimed only at academics; points out that vocational and practical training also play an important role in efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innova ...[+++]tion;

38. Emphasises the importance of developing innovation skills in general and support for employee-driven innovation in both new and existing companies; stresses also that the most entrepreneurially successful companies are often spin-offs from existing companies where employees have the opportunity to develop their ideas within secure and resourceful frameworks; stresses furthermore that many entrepreneurs have skilled or unskilled backgrounds, so entrepreneurial efforts should not be aimed only at academics; points out that vocational and practical training also play an important role in efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innova ...[+++]tion;

§ young graduates will have better carrier opportunities and may even try to establish their own spin-off firms if vocational training and higher education include placements within SMEs and give students opportunity to gain experience;

The joint venture (“BICS”) is a Belgian company created in 2005 through a spin-off of all Belgacom’s existing international telecommunications carrier services activities and related assets.

The project will help finance capital investments by small businesses, especially those created by hiving off operations from SONELGAZ, the National Electricity and Gas Company.

Measures to enforce this include support for the development of spin-off companies, efforts to attract new companies to the region and the use of Information Technology to enhance Cross-Border Co-operation contacts.