entrepreneurship

On 15 November 2018, 18 representatives of 15 EU countries met to discuss how clusters and regional and local ecosystems can accelerate entrepreneurship, industrial modernisation and growth and what policies can do to support this process and connections between them. Participants were updated on...

Deadline: 11 January 2019 (11:59am CET) Get EUR 20,000 from the EU to organise a Copernicus Hackathon in your region! Does your organisation support innovation and entrepreneurs? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you: organise a Copernicus Hackathon. This brand-new initiative, financed by the...

Deadline: 14 January 2019 EIT Food is looking for 13 organisations that would assume the role of EIT Food Hubs in 13 countries, targeted by EIT Food’s Regional Innovation Scheme: Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and...

Open: 31 August 2018 Deadline 30 November 2018 The overall goal of an Entrepreneurial Technology Transfer Experiment (TTX) is to mobilize, challenge and train small teams of potential entrepreneurs in the Customized Low-Energy Computing (CLEC) space from a long-term perspective. ·The focus is on a...

GEC+Taipei is a four-day event which will be held in the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) on September 26-29, 2018. The theme of the event is "Enabling Social Impact with AI + IoT" focusing on the use of smart technology applications to accelerate the innovation and digital...

An interview with Bianca Dragomir, cluster manager of AVAESEN and European Cluster Manager of the Year 2016-2018. ECCP: Bianca, you are the cluster manager of AVAESEN and also elected as the European Cluster Manager of the Year 2016-2018. I remember how you succeeded to convince a crowded audience...

Last June 4th, the third edition of the Business Factory Auto (BFA) initiative was presented, at the Porto do Molle Business Center (Nigrán), with an event attended by more than 250 people, interested in knowing the requirements to participate in this new edition. The Business Factory Auto...

In direct dialogue with cluster organizations, ECCP interviewed Anne Jouvenceau, Deputy Director of the French Genopole cluster. Why Genopole? We learned about their efforts and focus to supporting entrepreneurship and want to share their future-oriented - and very successful! - approach with our...

Nairobi Innovation Week, having taken place last March, provided a brilliant opportunity to bring Kenya under the spotlight. Kenya is the ninth richest African country with a GDP of USD 70.5 billion in 2016 (World Bank data) and an average of 5.2% growth rate per year between 2006 and 2016 (IMF). It...

We share with you this interesting reading on entrepreneurship and setting of the Startup Infrastructure Diagram (SID) helping regions map their supporting ecosystem. The article is authored by Hendrik Halbe, founder of Get in the Ring & VenturesPlus. "I’ve been promoting the stimulation of...

Early February 2018, the Office of Management and Budget from the US White House released the 2019 Federal Budget. The budget aims primarily at reducing the deficit by USD 3.6 trillion. To reach this aim, several cuts affect programmes by either reducing or eliminating them. Analysts from State...

This call for proposals concerns the implementation of a pilot project initiated by the European Parliament on the geographical extension of the current "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs" (EYE) programme. It aims to further foster cross-border transfer of knowledge and experience, entrepreneurial...