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infoDev Innovation & Competitiveness Highlights
The latest Innovation & Competitiveness news from infoDev
- infoDev launches new report "Financing Technology Entrepreneurs & SMEs: Challenges and Opportunities"
A key finding from infoDev's Incubator Initiative and our country work on growth and competitiveness is that there is little available financing for technology entrepreneurs. Without appropriate financing, the inevitable result is a significant slowdown in the business development process, which, in a fast moving business such as ICT, may ultimately jeopardize chances of success. To better understand the financial challenges facing technology entrepreneurs, infoDev commissioned this study, which assesses the current efforts by multilateral institutions and investors to address the financing needs of ICT and ICT-enabled SMEs in developing countries, and identifies the key challenges and constraints to meeting these needs. - infoDev's funded Incubator, BusyInternet, to host IFC SME Toolkit in Ghana
IFC distributes the SME Toolkit in several countries by partnering with local organizations that translate the product into local languages and offer relevant content in areas such as business regulations, sources of financing, and local business directories. The Toolkit was launched in Benin with H&C Business Technologies on Feb 26th. BusyInternet, a member of the infoDev Global Network of Business Incubators, will host the Toolkit in Ghana. - Youtube and Google Feature infoDev Business Incubator Case Study Videos
infoDev has commissioned a new set of video case studies that can viewed on Youtube! The videos include the Tianjin Women's Business Incubator in China, the Enterprise Innovation Fund in Armenia, and the Jordan iPARK. - infodev to participate in the International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge Parks
The UNESCO International Conference and Exhibition on Knowledge Parks provides a platform for key players around the world to help translate the concept of knowledge societies into concrete solutions for development. - Call for proposals to the 2008 SEED Awards
The SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development is an annual international competition, designed to support locally-led, innovative, entrepreneurial partnerships in developing countries, which have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability. - infoDev participates at GK3 with a discussion on policies, strategies and tools for business innovation
GK3 marked the tenth anniversary of the GKP in a celebration of its efforts towards harnessing emerging technologies for sustainable development and in making access to the technologies affordable. - An ICT Center and Business Incubator for Mozambique: Stakeholder meeting held in Maputo
- Eastern Europe and Central Asia's Regional Incubators Network workshop concludes
?All the countries in this region compete globally. This conference is an opportunity for us to share experiences and learn from global approaches to implementing innovation policies in the region and for developing the competitiveness of small countries in a regional context. It is important to build bridges on the institutional, financing and business environment levels in order to ensure forward-looking and sustainable policies for innovation and entrepreneurship.?H.E. Mr. Nerses Yeristyan, Minister of Trade and Economic Development of the Republic of Armenia - Success at the 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Incubators Conference in Santiago de Chile
The conference highlighted the importance and potential of business incubation in the Latin American and Caribbean region, both as an industry to promote and support entrepreneurship, and as an instrument for reaching broader economic growth and knowledge economy goals. - Results from the African Incubator Network Workshops
The African Incubator Network (AIN) has attracted significant attention over the previous few months. The goal of the AIN is to develop a collaborative Pan-African network of business incubators and other business development service providers. The results of the three workshops held in July helped to move the AIN further towards this goal. - Briefing sheets on regional incubation activities
- Upcoming Regional Business Incubation Workshops
A series of regional workshops on business incubation, entrepreneurship and innovation will be held between July and October, 2007. These workshops will bring together the regional networks of business incubators to raise awareness for the role of business incubation in supporting local innovation, to provide capacity building for incubator managers and to strengthen and expand the regional networks. - Angola inaugurates infoDev-supported Luanda Business Incubator
Angolan Minister of Public Administration, Employment and Social Security, the Honorable Mr. Pitra Neto, inaugurated the infoDev-supported business incubator in Luanda on May 1st. Minister Neto highlighted that the purpose of the business incubator is the creation and strengthening of new businesses and enhance job generation and maintenance. - infoDev partners with the Development Marketplace
infoDev and the Development Marketplace are leveraging their respective networks of business incubators and innovative entrepreneurs and businesses to effectively address core developmental challenges. - Business Incubation in Action
The following video case studies provide an overview of the role business incubators play in supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in developing countries. - World Bank President Visits infoDev-Supported Business Incubator
As part of his trip to Ghana to celebrate the country's 50th Anniversary of its independence, Mr. Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, visited BusyInternet, an ICT center, which also houses an infoDev-supported business incubator.