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On April 22-23 the V annual conference of the Ukrainian Business Incubators and Innovation Centers Association entitled INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE OF USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN INCREASING EFFICIENCY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT took place. Among organizers were the Ukrainian Business Incubators and Innovation Centers Association and State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship with support of the Ministry of Economics and European Integration of Ukraine, SPICE Group, State Department of Intellectual Property and National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 
Conference participants: members of the Association, representatives of the Ukrainian Government, state institutions and organizations, representatives of international and foreign associations, business incubators, centers for entrepreneurship support, technoparks, NGOs and business groups of Ukraine, international organizations and programs operating in Ukraine, embassies of several countries. Conference objectives: - Dissemination of up-to-date information and communication technologies, the best national and foreign practices of development of the entrepreneurship support infrastructure.
- Fostering introduction of information and communication technologies into innovative entrepreneurship environment.
- Assistance in establishing contacts and business cooperation among business support structures and state structures, international programs of business support in Ukraine, international and national NGOs.
The conference program included: 1. Pre-conference seminar on April 21, 2004 entitled: Use of information and communication technologies in increasing entrepreneurship operation efficiency (ICT in the work of entrepreneurship support structures: management, services, clients). 2. Conference sessions (subject sections): April 22, 2004 National infrastructure of entrepreneurship support: achievements, ways of development, mechanisms of improvement, success stories Moderator: Nataliya Kozhevina - President of Ukrainian Business Incubators and Innovation Centres Association Speakers: Yuriy Avksentyev - Head of the State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship, Olexandra Kuzhel - President of Analytic Center Academy, Adviser of the Head of the National Bank of Ukraine). As a result the agreement on cooperation was signed between UBICA and State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship and the ceremony of awarding took place, during which the most outstanding UBICA members obtained golden ensigns and the title of Honorary members of UBICA. 
International standards and modern trends of innovation development Moderator: Vyacheslav Solovyov - Deputy Director of the Dobrov Center for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies at NAS Speakers: Valentyn Chebotaryov - Deputy Head of the State Department of Intellectual Property: Introduction of the Intellectual property as an Effective Way to the States Economic Development, Volodymyr Denysyuk - Senior scientific specialist of the Dobrov Center for Scientific and Technical Potential and Science History Studies at NAS, Olexiy Nagovicyn - Department Head of the Ministry of Industrial Policy, Vasyl Tutashynsky - Deputy Head of the Innovational Development Department, Head of the Office of Organization of Technoparks Activity at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Maryna GIL - Director of Gomel Business Innovation Center. Information and communication technologies as a tool of strengthening innovation support infrastructures Moderator: Andriy Tarelin - Project Director of UBICA-ICT. Speakers: Inna Gagauz - Director of Kharkiv Small Business Development Center "Kharkiv Technologies, Mykhaylo Yavorsky - Director of Lviv Center for Scientific, Technical and Economic Information, Gennady Gayko - Executive Director of Belorussian Business Incubators Association, Kairat Sugurbekov - Vice-president of CBICA, Director of BI SODBI, Igor Katernyak - United Nations Development Program in Ukraine, Adviser on electronic services development). The best practices of information and communication entrepreneurship support Moderator: Mykola Paal - Executive Director of UBICA Speakers: Volodymyr Ivanov - Director of Business Technologies Development Center, Mykhaylo Magal - Director of the PE “Innovation Technologies Center”, Head of the MO “Civil Initiative”, Olexandr Yatsenko - General Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, Anatoliy Furda - Ukrainian-Canadian SBEDIF Business Center, Manager of the business-portal and educational programs). 
April 23, 2004 The best practices of information and communication entrepreneurship support Participants: representatives of programs and projects of entrepreneurship and innovations support: Olexiy Korsun - Head of the Science Technology Park, Olexiy Kubar - Project and Program Director of Luhansk Regional Organization for Entrepreneurship Support and Development Business Incubator, Igor Gnatienk - Project Director, Mariupo, Lubov Maksymovych - Director of Charitable Fund Incubator Center, Lviv, Iryna Zelkina - Simferopol City NGO Business Incubator, Administrator of the regional information and analytic center, Gennady Aksionov - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Social Adaptation, Volodymyr Yaremiy - PR manager of UBICA, Olena Bulba - Director of the UBICA Training Center. Handing in Certificates of UBICA trainers took place. 
The role of social partnership in the innovation entrepreneurship development Moderator: Volodymyr Rybtsov - President of IFSA Speakers: Krzysztof Zasiadly - President of Business Innovation Center, Vice-president of International Science Park and Innovation Center Expert Group (SPICE Group), Poznan, Poland; Ksenia Lyapina - Head of the Council of Private Entrepreneurs of Ukraine, Volodymyr Musiychuk - Adviser of the Head of State Committee of Ukraine for Regulatory Policy and Entrepreneurship.
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