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Silicon Valley was and remains the world center of innovation. Has a history of over half a century, and an ecosystem that has evolved, is associated with this generation of high commercial value through innovation (both evolutionary and revolutionary). This ecosystem, as well as entrepreneurs and investors, including many actors, from intellectual property lawyers who have doctorates in engineering, science and medicine, to academics who are serial entrepreneurs, and investors discussing, for example, advances in process synthesis silver Nan particles in corporate law firms.

In addition, most technology companies in Latin America are focused on software with a low level of complexity, and little ability to compete globally. However, there are a small but growing number of technology companies with high potential, who have overcome great obstacles in order to grow and thrive in an environment far more hostile than that of Silicon Valley. In general can get to expand in Latin America and in some cases in Spain, access to U.S. market global and it is very difficult.

The weakness is that there are usually some competitive advantage, and little connection to the global dynamics where the action (lack of knowledge of global supply and demand of human resources, products and technologies, lack of access to strategic partners and investment , etc.). Fortunately, there is also a small number of American entrepreneurs (but very important for the entrepreneurial ecosystem of countries) that have been successful in the global market, and are acting as mentors to other local entrepreneurs.

ESPA EST 2.0 aims to develop materials and tools to facilitate learning Spanish for business purposes and that, in time, may serve to promote business opportunities and establishing business relationships between Spanish and Asian countries.
To do this, will soon be available ESPA Learning, a course in Spanish on-line business, which is one of the most prominent of the project. In addition to providing knowledge and language skills, aims to provide other skills related to business development and mobility.

Also be launched ESPA Base, a database with information about companies in Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are interested in establishing cooperative relations with Spanish companies. At a minimum, provide the company name, address, email address and sector of activity.
In addition, available ESPA Info, a collection of documents and information related to the field of enterprise and business in Spain and the new Member States

May inquire of ESPA Dictionary, an online multilingual dictionary Spanish-English-Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-Romanian-Bulgarian-Latvian-Lithuanian-Estonian-Polish, useful to develop in the field of trade relations or in everyday situations.

In addition, to facilitate the establishment of trade relations will create ESPA Society, a social network for businesses interested in international cooperation in the European Union. It is intended as a tool facilitating the involvement of companies and their officers in developing the project. At the time, the opportunity to practice new language skills in professional and business experiences and opinions.
Finally, we will launch a B2B ESPA platform to facilitate communication between companies in Central and Eastern Europe and Spanish companies. It is intended as support for networking.

Any Spanish company interested in establishing relations with other Central and Eastern Europe can join the project and use these tools free.
The project, which will run until December 2011 is sponsored by the University Academy of Computing and Business Administration in Warsaw and is supported by the European Union through the Lifelong Learning Programmed / Leonardo ad Vinci (2009-20011). In Spain, the partner is ITURBROK sly, consulting firm specializing in Technology and Information Society located in Pamplona.