The Digital Academy would be excellent to attract and train that talent.
But what about the other scarce resource for startups: Investors.

How to attract Venture capital to Madrid? The Digital Academy would help, but would it be enough?

BTW, good hints on the format in Guillermo Lutzky ‘ s comment

And since you have office space, you could even offer a room in your offices in addition to limited amount of funding to the winning ideas. These teams will benefit from the funding, the team formation, business insights from you and your partners, and the possibility of being colocated with your employees (which all have an entrepreneurial mindset). In the end, people need role models and being next to you will be enough to find the motivation to start companies.

In addition to employment, there are also people learning at FON. It should not surprise anyone if a number of them go on to set up their own start up. That is certainly how it happens in Silicon Valley.

Is this something you have ever tracked? In addition to the companies you have founded, how many other conpanies have been founded by people you once employed?

Some of the best developers I know did not really become what they are through studying but through working in the field and working next to good people, or interacting with them. It’s a spirit thing. Same counts for a project/product manager, again a little bit sick, a little bit crazy, always out there, … . The business person probably just needs to darts next to great people.

It really comes down to another idea in my mind. Get together some of the greatest entrepreneurs out there to fund a quasi non-profit that has enough money to buy several houses world wide, fully equiped, plus several free world wide airplane tickets, plus a few other fun things. Then you have a committee to find out who can get into that “club”. Everybody in there, maybe 1-2 years full time, then only on a holiday kind of basis, will be interacting with a lot of great minds to talk about ideas and such. They have the free time to code a bit, try out working in any business for a few weeks (that belongs to a club member), build something with other members , … whatever gets built will belong 24% of the club, 76% to the builders, who can get in further investment into their idea, mostly by club members who have quasi right of first refusal.

You kind of build an ecosystem for entrepreneurs to flourish. Old members can stay at the houses for e.g. 4 weeks a year to recharge, get new ideas, … . Through the airplane tickets you can allow people to get ideas from all over the world.

Admission needs to be done through something like 5 people vouching for the person getting in. Some 360 degree appraisal system needs to be established to get the people out that are slacking … but the really good people will just not be able to, that is the point.

The education system will be invaluable, the club could be continuously funded through exits in the companies started out of the club, as no money would ever be given back to first starters.

Problem is you need some real money for this, and not too little of it.

And there is surely a gap between what you study at universities and what you learn at Instituto de Empresa…

I wish you good luck and hope this project will be society-orientated…

I’m well aware of your blog content, and even more, I’m a big fan of your entrepreneurial and social activity. this is why I wished to hear some good news about the idea.
Project-like learning in teams supervised by best internet professionals, as well as variety of innovative and intense state-of-the-art workshops will definitely bring a lot of value in your academy to let it stand out.

I’m a bit concerned about tuition fees of American level – something not very common in European universities (besides UK), and lots of scholarships for some amazing but poor students would be required. Probably a better investigation in that area is needed also.