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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
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
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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