Annamaria Annicchiarico is a senior manager who has created & managed the Tecnopolis business & innovation incubator since 1984; she is Senior Consultant for international cooperation & the EU expert for the TECNOPOLIS Parco Scientifico & BICs.  Annamaria has been Marketing professor at the University of Salento since 1999 & won  Antigone Award 1991 for her engagement in women promotion.  Recently she contributed to a faisibility study for a  Technological Park and Enterprise incubator in Bosnia Herzegovina, directed the OWLE 50+ project and the EYE project and is now responsible of both the international projects in course.  She is the General Director of Tecnopolis Parco Scienitifico e Tecnologico.