SPICE Update No.112 November (Listopad) 2014

In this Update:

New Zealand: Incubator Program doubles Clients Growth 7

Women Entrepreneurship – Research Initiative in Germany 8

Design Business Models, Youth, and Crowd Funding in MENA 15

Indonesian Innovation & Technology Professionals trained in Berlin 4

Ain’t NO Need – The first Global Social Entrepreneurship Challenge 2

Views & Facts – this time with a special Focus on Social Entrepreneurship 10

Climate Tech Proof of Concept Competition in Vietnam – Winners announced 5

NEW on SPICA World Map: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, ,Germany, Latvia,, Malaysia, New Zealand,, Peru, Russia, United Kingdom 9

Reports from Afghanistan, Australia, Burundi, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, Ireland, Italy Kenya, Lebanon, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, and Vietnam

Dear Member and Reader

It seems there is light at the end of the tunnel. While the “global entrepreneurship support scene” seems to have forgotten that businesses cannot only be started with new mobile apps and with a potential for explosive growth, ANDE has published a report on “Invention based Entrepreneurship”. This report is putting light on the needs of entrepreneurs starting businesses based on “something tangible”. One could say that we are back to where it all began some decade ago when the first technology incubators started focusing on exactly that kind of entrepreneur. But, it all comes in waves. The ICT boom and the knowledge economy certainly are not over and out. However, it seems to be good remembering that the basis for an economy cannot be to sell aps to each other.

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