Strategic Priorities IT industry Initiatives and Actions Initiative 1 : Facilitate the development of local IT actors Actions Description 23.Implement national governance for innovation • Implement national governance for the coordination and follow-up of support and development schemes: • Innovation, supported partially by the Innovation Fund of the APEBI-Government Progress Contract; • Research and Development, supported by R&D Funds drawn from the contribution of telecom operators. 24. Set up financing solutions for IT actors • Set up public-private investment funds such as risk capital and venture capital designed for new IT enterprises; • A first 100 million MAD public-private risk capital to be concretised in 2009; • Additionally, and on the basis of contract of growth, IT sector enterprises will be granted an investment bonus within the framework of the “IMTIAZ”* program. 25. Set up regional technoparks • Set up attractive technoparks that offer good quality infrastructure and general services for IT enterprises and start ups; • Like Casablanca-Technopark, 8 new potential technopark sites have been planned in Casablanca, Rabat, Agadir, Oujda, Tangier, Marrakech, Fez and Meknes. * See the National Pact for Industrial Emergence, article 57 D i g i t a l M o r o c c o 61 The National Strategy for Information Society and Digital Economy - 2009-2013