INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
2004 Clients
Some of the companies and organizations that are participating
in our program in 2004.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a contract research organisation involved in many international assignments. With its 3000 employees, VTT provides a wide range of technology and applied research services for its clients, private companies, institutions and the public sector.
JSP's task is to develop and reinforce business activity that is based on new knowledge and technology, as well as to create the preconditions for the same. They promote in particular the commercial exploitation of research findings and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Their job is to weave nets: establishing contacts and bring the right people together, providing resources or seeking them out. They look for missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. There are many people with expert knowledge; JSP's role is to help them form win-win-win chains.
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BizWomen Foundation is dedicated to helping women in underdeveloped
countries and the US build self sufficient lives through business
education and microfinance. The Foundation provides women
with experiential learning programs that help teach basic
business and entrepreneurship skills as well as understanding
the microcredit process.
The mission of the Foundation is to seek and develop outcome-based projects that will improve the quality of life for future generations.
Forest Ethics is dedicated to preserving forests by redirecting U.S. Markets to ecologically sound alternatives. Forest Ethics is one of a number of organizations supporting our work with QQS Projects.
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Located deep in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest is
the community of Waglisla, British Columbia, Canada. Waglisla
or Bella Bella is home to about 1,500 Heiltsuk people, this
Native community makes up 84% of the total population of the
area. QQS Projects seeks to protect that environment by partnering
with Heiltsuk Community groups, environmental organizations,
Government Agencies and foundations.
Janani is a nonprofit Indian Society and is an affiliate of DKT-International, the Washington-headquartered charitable organization.
El Instituto Poblano de Readaptacion AC es una institucion para los niños de la calle, fundada en 1966. To read about the 2002 IBD team click here.
This program offers an exceptional learning opportunity to mid-career professionals and policy makers to gain expertise, enhance their skills and broaden their perspectives on sustainable environmental management.
Administered
by the College of Natural Resources, University of California
Berkeley, the Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station
in Moorea, French Polynesia welcomes international researchers.
Ashesi University is a subsidiary of Ashesi University Foundation, a non-profit, publicly supported US corporation based in Seattle, Washington. Their mission is to train a new generation of ethical and entrepreneurial business leaders in Africa.
GrameenPhone started its operations on March 26, 1997 as a joint venture between four companies from as many countries: Grameen Telecom of Bangladesh, Telenor AS of Norway, Marubeni Corp. of Japan and Gonofone Development Corp. of the United States. GrameenPhone presently has more than 820,000 subscribers, commanding 70 percent of the market share.
Meridian
Resources was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in San
Francisco. They also have offices or affiliates in Asia, Europe,
Latin America, and throughout the United States. Meridian's
primary focus is helping clients gain sustained competitive
advantage by building and leveraging their global resources.
Tekes,
the National Technology Agency is the main public financing
and expert organisation for research and technological development
in Finland. Tekes finances industrial R&D projects as
well as projects in research institutes. Tekes especially
promotes innovative, risk-intensive projects.
Last updated May 3, 2004
