Over the past 10 years, the companies created in partnership with Inno-centre annually generated an average of 106 high value-added jobs.

TECHBA-MONTREAL/INNO-CENTRE, 2011 PRIZE FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL ACCELERATOR

2011-11-18

Mexico City, November 18, 2011 – Mr. Guillermo Fernández de la Garza, CEO of FUMEC, is proud to announce that, as part of the 8^th Mexico SME Awards 2011, under Mr. Bruno Ferrari, Minister of Economy and Mr. Miguel Maron, UnderSecretary for SMEs of Mexico, TechBA Montreal/Inno-centre was awarded the prize for best international accelerator.

“TechBA is an innovative concept supported from the beginning by Mexico's Ministry of the Economy which demonstrates the Mexican government's firm determination to reinforce its economic ties with its main trading partners, including Canada”, Mr. Fernández de la Garza emphasized.

“I am very happy about our partnership with TechBA Montréal and am particularly proud of the Inno-centre team’s work, all the more because other organizations were considered for this prize such as the other 7 TechBAs, 1 in Vancouver, 5 in the United States and one more in Europe, said Claude Martel, CEO of Inno-centre.

About FUMEC

The United States – Mexico Foundation for Science (FUMEC) was created at the end of 1992 to promote bi-national collaboration in science and technology

The main purpose of the Foundation is to serve as an articulator of institutional efforts to enable scientific collaboration that could impact the solution of problems and the search for new opportunities in priority areas.

One of FUMEC focus being competitiveness of key North American sectors, including the emergent high growth entrepreneurial sector, the Foundation created TechBA (Technology Business Accelerator).

About TechBA

TechBA is a program set up to work with key organizations of advanced innovation regions in the United States, Canada and other countries to accelerate the development of technology intensive businesses.

TechBA´s main objective is to propel Mexican technological SMEs and emphasize its economic links with its main commercial partners.

About Inno-centre

Since 1987, Inno-centre is a Montreal based organization that accelerates startups and growth of companies based on world-class technologies.

Inno-centre offers business intelligence and commercialization services that facilitate access to the Canadian and U.S. markets.

Inno-centre has a team of 25 high level coaches and professionals in management and international business development.