Microsoft Innovation Centres As part of the Microsoft Local Software Economy Initiative, Microsoft partners with local stakeholders to establish the Microsoft Innovation Centres

Geo Coverage In 2001 the Microsoft MICs in , , Innovation Centers helped and announced their Cloud ICT Professionals to increase Excellence centers to their skills and get certified support 8,200 local companies transition to the cloud In the last 12 months MICs contributed to the creation of In Belgium the Microsoft Innovation Center companies MIC Manager supported local partners to thru their in-kind investments release to startups 150 new apps in the market place 101 44 123K 3K CENTERS COUNTRIES TRAINED APPS There are 6 cities in Spain are Microsoft Innovation Centers connected thru the Government Portal “Third in Countries Armenia Indonesia(3) Pakistan, Switzerland place” built on top of Azure by

Austria Israel Panama, Taiwan the MIC Brazil(17) (2) Philippines, Tanzania Bulgaria (4) Poland(2) (2) MIC Partnership Productivity Belgium(2) Jordan (2) Tunisia In the last 12 months the Botswana Kazakhstan Puerto Rico Turkey Microsoft Innovation Centers 454 partners and Chile(2) (3) Romania(2) Uganda Helped local partners to release startups are using Azure thru the (2) Kuwait (11) Ukraine more than Latvia Saudi Arabia Vietnam support of the 4 Microsoft Czech Republic(2) Lithuania Singapore Nepal Solutions in the Innovation Centers in Japan Estonia Malaysia(3) Slovenia Marketplace. Greece Malta (2) Mexico(4) Spain (5)

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Partners LEARN BUILD RUN •Business trainings delivered by faculty •LAB Environment for students and •Supporting new startups in solution profesors and 3rd party professionals teams of students to test and promotion •Technical training sessions for DEV, showcase technology/platform, •Bizspark program promotion WEB DEV and IT Pros delivered by prototype their new solutions/apps •POC implementation local MVPs/MCTs •Mentoring and consulting during the •Reference case studies process of incubation •Trainings and Support for Imagine •Integrate with other incubation parks Cup contestants •Cooperation with existing partners to across country mentor new enterprenuers (MPN, •Student intership •raise awareness trough 3rd party CISEX, Osijek Software City …) •S2B program startup conferences •Hackathons on W8, WP8, Cloud •Hackathons on W8, WP8, Cloud •Cooworking inside MIC

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5.12. ATD Reloaded December - January - March - Software Startup Academy team/student lectures and workshops release admission

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