SPICE Update No.122 August (Srpen) 2016
Innovation to fight Hunger in the World 1 + 13
Innovators under 35 – Winners 2016 awarded in Berlin 2
Carlson Wagonlit Travel at the Baltic Dynamics conference in Riga 4
Boosting Startup Entrepreneurship in Zimbabwe 17
Agora Accelerator prepares Investor Talks for Accelerator Graduates 18
Euro 1,000,000 for the winning Startup – Global CUBE Challenge started 7
INNO AWARD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern honored five Winners 5
Sustainability in the Genes – ZEIT WISSEN Award for Sustainability in three Categories 8
Spotlights on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Activities in Africa 17-20
Entrepreneurial Hotspots: this time reports on Mannheim (p 9+10), Berlin (p 13+14), Hamburg (p 11), Köln/Düsseldorf (p15), and Munich (p 12) New on SPICA World Map: Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden. (see page 16) Reports from Australia, Cameroon, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Lebanon, Malawi, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.
Who are the Founders? Public attention regarding startups is caught by fast exits, by founders becoming rich in a short period of time. Newsletters dealing with matters of the innovative enterprise sector focus on millions of investment and fast growth records. Is this the essence of entrepreneurship? Who are the founders and what are their goals and values? This question hardly is looked at. A new study (exceptionally) not focusing only on financial aspects is taking a look at the German Startup entrepreneurs (see DSM Deutscher Startup Monitor). We will look at this topic in future…
