Next month from September 4 to 7, in Hamburg, Germany, the international trade fair of shipbuilding and marine technology SMM 2012 is to be held. We are calling enterprises to participate in the trade fair within which the Ventspils High Technology Park offers to organize meetings with potential business partners from Germany, as well as partly cover travel and accommodation expenses for Latvian enterprises (for communication see contact information below the article).

9 cities and towns under one roof – you will say it is not possible and you will be wrong. A conference of the Business Incubator held at the end of March in Liepāja gathered approximately 100 new entrepreneurs from 9 Latvian cities and towns – Ventspils, Talsi, Liepāja, Kuldīga, Saldus, Jelgava, Dobele, Jēkabpils, and Aizkraukle. Traditionally practical lectures on funding attraction questions were carried out within the event, as well as there were presentations of 6 enterprises for experts aimed at taking advices for business development. However this time organizers had thought also about novelties in the run of the event.

Today is the 7^th anniversary of a foundation Ventspils High Technology Park. Tell me how all this began?

At the end of 2004 I arrived in Ventspils – city which I immediately found very attractive. I understood that here I want to work and stay. This was how the idea about development of electronics and high technologies in Ventspils was born.

In the beginning of August Ventspils High Technology Park (VHTP) in collaboration with Kurzeme Business Incubator (KBI) organized first joint event for companies of both business incubators.