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Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019
January
22
2019
The 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) is THE place to be for innovators, entrepreneurs and trailblazers from across five innovation sectors. Taking place from June 4-5 in the Netherlands, the GES 2019 will be focusing on Agriculture, Connectivity, Energy, Health, or Water, and is looking for transformative technological solutions in each sector.
This will be the first time that the GES comes to the European Union, and will be co-hosted by both the governments of the Netherlands and the United States of America. This 9th edition of this globally known event aims to drive global innovation and celebrate the free-market economy that supports jobs, growth, and transformative solutions to global challenges. It will also serve to build on strong transatlantic relationships and common values, promote economic growth, fair trade, and encourage investment in entrepreneurial activity that creates prosperity and jobs.
The event provides the ultimate networking opportunity for scale ups, innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to meet, discuss and ultimately innovate together to improve innovation across the five sectors.
Applications close on 30 January 2019 so if you want to be considered for a place at GES 2019 don’t delay and apply today!
For more details look at the GES 2019 application page.
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Transatlantic co-operation benefiting SMEs
October
31
2014
The EU and the US economies account together for about half the entire world GDP and for nearly a third of world trade flows; in 2013 alone the EU and the US traded €105 billions’ worth of goods and services. The transatlantic relationship also defines the shape of the global economy as a whole. Either the EU or the US is the largest trade and investment partner for almost all other countries in the global economy.
With this relationship set to become even stronger, at the recent SME Assembly in Naples we brought together senior politicians from both sides of the Atlantic to debate respective EU and US priorities for driving SME growth and the benefits for SMEs of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Anthony L. Gardner, US Ambassador to the EU, and Daniel Calleja, EU SME Envoy & Director General for Enterprise & Industry, discussed ways of shaping the TTIP to ensure that SMEs reaped benefits from any potential deal. During the second hour, negotiators from the European and American sides were joined by SME owners and managers to discuss the current state of play of negotiations and debate the specific issues affecting SMEs.
