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2024 Agenda

December 3rd, 2024
18:00-22:30 CET
Mayer Brown, 10 avenue Hoche, Paris
CSS & SES Networking Cocktail Reception



December 4th, 2024
15:00 – 19:30 CET
ICC Headquarters, 33-43 avenue du Président Wilson

Startup Ecosystem Stars 2024 Award Ceremony

Startup Ecosystem Stars is the annual gathering to award the best practices among organizations responsible for the promotion of Ecosystems of Innovation. Invited organizations have a strong association with a local ecosystem and can represent cities, regions, or countries. The objective is to recognize the best practices from the world’s best Innovation Regions and Cities.

  • Welcome and Opening Remarks
    John Denton, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
    Alberto Onetti, Chairman, Mind the Bridge
    Marco Marinucci, CEO, Mind the Bridge
    Anthony Virapin, Worldwide Leader, Microsoft Entrepreneurship for Positive Impact – Office of the EVP AINI

    Jonathan Ortmans, President, Global Entrepreneurship Network
  • Keynote Speech
    From French Tech to Europe and beyond: Scaling Private Investment with the Tibi Initiative
    Philippe Tibi, Président du comité exécutif et des comités techniques du projet “Financement Scale-UP” chez Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de la Relance and Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique
  • Deep Dive: The European Innovation Council Strategy to boost innovation in Europe
    Isidro Laso Ballesteros, European Innovation Council – DG R&I – European Commission
  • Delivery of the 2024 SES Award to the Person of the Year
  • Presentation of Mind the Bridge 2024 SES Report
    “Building Startup Ecosystem Stars. The Life Cycle of Innovation”
  • Awards for Startup Ecosystem Stars 2024
  • “Visionary Public Procurement” 2024 Award (by The Innovation Procurement Empowerment Centre – IPEC)
  • Closing Remarks and Networking Cocktail

Close door events restricted to invited participants

SES Awards recognize programs AND ORGANIZATIONS able
to boost development and internationalization of their innovation ecosystems

Startup Ecosystem Stars Awards

Beneficiaries are government-related organizations focused
on supporting Innovation in their own region

Best-in-class
Startup Programs

Training and supporting homegrown startups, and helping them scale internationally (outbound) Fueling ecosystems of innovation by attracting startups (inbound)

Exceptional
Industry Support

Boosting open innovation practices of local companies and industrial clusters through training, internationalization, and immersion programs in the most advanced global innovation hubs

Outstanding
Investment Boost

Financially empowering the growth of ecosystems of innovation through co-investments, matching programs, FDI attraction, and international exposure

Top
Talent & Research

Nurturing the top entrepreneurial talent
Supporting the creation of IP and
tech transfer

Visionary
Public Procurement

Looking for public authorities that are leaders when it comes to using procurement to bring in innovation
and to unlock more value through using procurement

Startup Ecosystem Star of 2023

Mariya Gabriel
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Republic of Bulgaria and former EU Commissioner
in charge of Innovation

2023 Special Awards

2023 Edition

Supported by world-class research

and decade-long experience

STARTUP ECOSYSTEM STARS KNOWLEDGE BASE
Learn about how ecosystems of innovation scale globally

  • pursue sustainable growth models,
  • get data and insights about benchmarking startup ecosystems worldwide.
Pursue sustainable growth models
Get data and insights about benchmarking startup ecosystems worldwide

Building Startup Ecosystem Stars
The World’s Life Cycle of Innovation Report 2023

This Report is aimed at all policy makers who believe innovation is a key driver to grow the GDP of their own region. Their policies empower government related organizations (at city, region, country, or continent level) that implement programs and actions to nurture talent and innovation locally.

In this report, we introduce the concept of the Innovation Life Cycle to enable:

  • international comparisons among innovation ecosystems globally – unhampered by limitations related to their current stage and size;
  • the estimation of future growth trajectories, allowing for the evaluation of gaps with comparable ecosystems.

While many variables could be considered, we focus this report primarily on the measurement of the number of scaleups (more mature startups) in a region as a key proxy to calculate the future ability of a region to impact their local economy through technology innovation. 
We then analyze the specific causes (i.e. policies) behind an acceleration of the economy of innovation of a specific region. A similar methodology can be applied using different units of geographical aggregation (city, country, continent).

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