The global recession affecting European economies requires macroeconomic reforms, drastic budget control efforts, together with policies which create conducive environments for wealth & job creation, without jeopardizing the European social model, while developing sustainable and carbon-free territories. What a program: it’s about searching new economic & social models.
Actually, these challenging economic times present extraordinary opportunities for enhancing the competiveness of organizations through innovation. Innovation by all means, by all, for all. In short, it’s urgent to deploy new innovation models.
Only true innovators, real entrepreneurs will be able to make it. People, companies, organizations who have the ability to be responsive to changes, to question their certainties, to adjust their mindset and re-orientate activities, to move physically, to find new partnerships, to outsource non-core businesses, etc. It’s a people story, a story in permanent evolution where new Darwinian entrepreneurs are urgently needed.
Of course it’s about DNA, entrepreneurship-oriented DNA, which by the way can be cultivated by genetic re-combinations, by associating various disciplines and competences, by increasing bio-diversity. But it’s also a question of skills acquisition, a battery of skills considered as vital such as the capacity to observe, to question, to discover, to experiment, to incubate, to engage, to accelerate, and of course to collaborate and network. Wanted: new true innovators.
Even if spontaneous generation of entrepreneurial microorganisms happens, the ecosystem should be favorable for birth & growth, and enablers can really and significantly improve the flows of ideas, projects and investments. Enabling intermediaries such as BICs, known as credible, engaged and pragmatic support mechanisms, should however evolve themselves, and adjust their strategy, positioning, competences and services. Becoming Smart BICs !
During two days, 25 innovative entrepreneurs, 25 smart champions, will be show-casing their stories, their models, their innovations, their passions, and how their BICs have been key in their successes.
A smart entrepreneurship festival, where smart people shares smart ideas by interacting in smart discussing sessions in a collaborative and open mode. Be an actor of a smarter Europe, feed the “Europe 2020 strategy” with your inputs, travel to Burgos EBN 2010 congress !

Philippe Vanrie (EBN Managing Director) and Ángel Ibáñez (President of CEEI Burgos) agree the celebration of the congress.

Meeting in the City Council.

Philippe Vanrie (EBN Managing Director) and Ángel Ibáñez (President of CEEI Burgos) sign the agreement.