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Newsroom: World News Archive 2005
April
3 - 9
From
Inventions to Innovation
Tech Central Station - Richfield, OH
...One of the main issues covered at the debate was the role of
intellectual property rights and their importance to overall
competitiveness. "The Lisbon Agenda...
Calling
all women entrepreneurs
Bizcommunity.com - Cape Town,South Africa
... Accordingly, more and more women are taking the route to
informal sector entrepreneurship (Bolas and Valle, 2003; Erwee,
1987; Mahadea, 2001). ...
Commission
puts forward proposal for a Competitiveness and Innovation...
Cordis News - EU
...The programme will comprise three sub-programmes: the
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme, the ICT [information and
communication technology] Policy...
Successful
economy good for science
ElectronicsWeekly.com - UK
The UK economy has an unprecedented opportunity for expansion
founded on the knowledge-based industries, according to Sir Digby
Jones, director-general of the CBI...
Dubai
one of the world's most vibrant property development markets, says
Trump
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
... came from the 'start-up' spirit. 'The true driving force in any
economy is entrepreneurship,' he said. Trump said he is greatly ...
Business
Incubation Key To Fight Poverty
Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu,Nepal
... per cent of chance to be successful through this innovation. The
main objective of the business incubation center is to enhance
entrepreneurship and successful ...
Transparency
Rules Spur Debate
St Petersburg Times, Russia - St. Petersburg,Russia
... of business transparency, and what it means to be a transparent
company in Russia at a seminar organized by the US Russia Center for
Entrepreneurship and the St ...
Allan
Gray's Empowerment Initiatives
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... firm, is to introduce a 25 percent black empowerment
shareholding in the company, which is part of an attempt to
encourage black entrepreneurship and the ...
Slow
patenting process threatens innovation
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... The development of homegrown intellectual property is central to
the Government's drive to promote innovation in the country, and
move the economy up the value ...
Doing
business and doing good
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... Last fall, the Trexler Trust funded a symposium series at
DeSales University on "Creating an Economy of Entrepreneurship
and Innovation" for the "specific ...
New
book offers showcase for Israeli achievements
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... It has also acquired a reputation for cutting-edge innovation
across a ... as a "testimony to the Israelis' incredible
originality, dynamism and entrepreneurship.". ...
April
10-16
UOB forms alliance with SMU to promote entrepreneurship
Channel News Asia - Singapore
SINGAPORE: United Overseas Bank (UOB) has formed an alliance with the Singapore Management University (SMU) to promote entrepreneurship and develop local...
I-Play joins Red Herring's top 100 list for Europe
GamesIndustry.biz - UK
... the list as a whole, apparently it "shows that despite obstacles posed by regulations, bureaucracy and tradition, innovation and entrepreneurship continues to...
Business Incubation Equals Business Success
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Business incubation in New Zealand is proving to be a resounding success, according to the national incubator association...
Germany's Lack of Innovation Is Stifling Growth, IW Study Says
Bloomberg - USA
Germany ranked 14th in factors conducive to innovation among 16 developed economies in a study, the IW Institute of the German Economy in Cologne said today in...
Bank of Ireland launches new business start-up package
FinFacts Ireland - Ireland
... "The recent Enterprise Strategy Group Report identified innovation and entrepreneurship as the key elements of sustainable
enterprise...
Triggers for Innovation -- New Models for Change and Social Entrepreneurship
WorldChanging - USA
Achieving the Millennium Development goals won't happen without support from governments, the private sector and NGOs. The challenge ...
Beijing Backs VC
Red Herring - CA,USA
... Mr. Hsu also suggested that Beijing establish a "Deng Xiaoping National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award" with a substantial cash prize to encourage ...
Venture capital investment surges in first quarter
Ireland Online - Ireland
Venture capital investment in Irish companies has increased dramatically in the first quarter of 2005, with the €75.4m invested more than twice the amount...
April
17-23
Young Britons aim to go solo
Freelance UK - London,UK
An increasing number of young Britons would rather start–up their own company than work for someone else, according to new research...
UNDP offers up to $500,000 to conservation-promoting ...
Islamic Republic News Agency - Tehran,Iran
...Grassroots entrepreneurship, through its ability to bring great environmental benefits while also raising incomes, has the potential to transform the way
we...
New PwC centre aims to keep family businesses in the family
Ottawa Business Journal - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
... businesses are in transition and people don't comprehend the amount of issues involved," said Mr. Daze, executive director of OCRI's Entrepreneurship
Centre...
Poor social security hinders entrepreneurship among women
Helsingin Sanomat - Finland
...Erlund feels that society should support the possibility of trying out one's hand at entrepreneurship without a fear of failure...
Computer Associates sponsors Entrepreneurs in Dubai
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
...largest independent management software companies, today announced its sponsorship of the Entrepreneurs in Dubai - The International Entrepreneurship Forum and...
Innovation is the route to corporate value creation says new...
Online Recruitment - UK
... Germany and Japan. They concluded that, to close the gap, the UK must become a high value, high innovation economy. "We find that...
"The Next Steps Toward Europe"
EUROPA (press release) - Brussels,Belgium
... The creation of wealth and jobs depends ultimately on entrepreneurship and innovation, which can be facilitated but not dictated by the
EU...
How to do business the Singapore way
Indian Express - India
...Singapore has shown how to harmonise private entrepreneurship and a competitive environment with rising productivity even within a tightly controlled and disciplined administrative regime...
Breaking the Taliban mold, women go into business in the new Afghanistan
San Diego Union Tribune - USA
...Mina Sherzoy, head of the government's department of Women's Entrepreneurship Development, said that women needing startup money typically must turn to a male...
Rules on innovation come under a legal microscope
Financial Times - UK (free subscription required)
...A drug patent case this week could profoundly affect not only those who take or make American drugs but also the vitality of the innovation
economy...
Gucci to address Mid East corporate leaders
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
...entrepreneur Laura Frati Gucci is to address the Middle East's most flamboyant and insightful gathering of regional business leaders in May when she takes the platform at 'Entrepreneurs in Dubai.'...
There's no business like social work business
Ha'aretz - Israel
Two years after gaining her master's degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the answer is a bit clearer; she now runs a handicraft manufacturing factory in...
Alliance for Development of Puerto Rico presents economic / social
development plan
Puerto Rico Herald - PR,USA
The alliance will promote a new economic model based on entrepreneurship vs. dependency; a new social model based on empowerment and responsibility; and...
April
24 - 30
Talk about innovative...
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
...The umbrella, Mills explains, is that word: innovation. "I've tried to argue that the best interpretation of innovation in the contemporary world is
open-minded...
Finland cools its Nokia fixation
ic Wales - Cardiff,UK
...it has become appreciated that there is a need to get more graduates to consider entrepreneurship as a career, especially within knowledge- based industries...
Multipronged drive to boost local intellectual property
Malaysia Star - Petaling Jaya,Malaysia
... It will educate participants on the role of IP in an innovation economy; managing IP as national assets; developing IP policies for governments; the...
UK migrants much better than Scots at start-ups
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Migrants who came to Scotland from England, Wales and Northern
Ireland have a greater entrepreneurial spirit than native-born
Scots, a University...
NZ's Biggest-Ever Celebration of Innovation
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Wellington, 27 April 2005 -- New Zealand's biggest-ever celebration of Kiwi innovation and entrepreneurship, the 2005 NZ Innovation Festival, launched at Te...
From Green Zone to Free Zone
Tech Central Station - Richfield, OH
...The tiny Arab nation is light-years ahead of the rest of the Middle East , nay, the world -- both in terms of its wealth and its climate of
entrepreneurship...
Start-ups show rise in 'love money' funding
Scotsman - UK
... investors' money have flowed into new businesses north of the Border, the majority being "love money", the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde ...
State aid reform vital in boosting Europe's R&D, says Kroes
Cordis News - EU
Competition policy and state aid reform have a central role to play in boosting Europe's capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship, says EU Competition...
Not just a service center for budding Filipino entrepreneurs
Manila Times - Manila,Philippines
... Many micro-finance nongovernment organizations (NGO) including the present administration are promoting entrepreneurship not only as a way to survive but one...
Smart entrepreneurs go corporate, says UK bio-tech king
AME Info - United Arab Emirates
... At 'Entrepreneurs in Dubai' - the International Entrepreneurship Exhibition and Forum - Sir Christopher will spell out to the audience of would-be...
Women struggle to be their own boss
Scotsman - UK
...The report from the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde University is likely to make uncomfortable reading for Scottish Enterprise, which has...
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