A broad focus group of about 20 representatives representing different fields were set up from Halmstad university, Sweden, in May 2003. The focus group participants were teachers from the university, students and graduated students who were starting their companies within the university incubator, young and experienced entrepreneurs, and representatives from different business support organisations.
During the project period the focus group has met ten times. The activity in the focus group was certainly very high during the first year of the PREFACE project when we were looking for best practices to bring to the search conference in September 2003. Nine members from the focus group attended the search conference.

We have also invited people and organisations to be passively linked to the project and to follow the process in order to give advice, to use the results and to be engaged in the final dissemination of the project.