Fixing the Future
Last week the wonderful Diogo Vasconcelos from Cisco made me aware of the appearance of something we'd discussed while plotting over wine and carpaccio in Brussels some time ago - Fixing the Future is now live and ready to support. Perhaps that can help create some momentum around investing in innovation and the knowledge economy, to get Europe out of recession.
Sweden takes over the presidency of the EU from this month and has some priorities during that six months. More detail on their plans here. From what we hear, they will also focus on helping start-ups and SMEs access funding - as well as a focus on women's enterprise. On 9/10 November, EBAN will hold their Winter University for business angel investor members, in Stockholm, hosted by SVCA. The Nordics appear to be pretty bouyant despite the downturn and Sweden has also seen more than 200 start-ups sign up to the BizSpark program since launch 7 months ago. Encouraging.
