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The 17th International Entrepreneurship Forum on
“Entrepreneurship North-South:
the emergent, transformational axes of opportunity development”
From the 12th to the 14th of December, Nancy, France will host the 17th edition of the International Entrepreneurship Forum - IEF Conference, an initiative organized by the IEF in close collaboration with the Essex Business School (University of Essex), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and its Local Employment and Economic Development (LEED) Programme, the ICN Graduate Business School of Nancy, and INSME.
The 17th IEF will explore the North-South dialectic of entrepreneurship and innovation with the multiple objectives of:
- exploring the different roles entrepreneurship and innovation play in the economic and social development of developed, emerging and developing economies;
- identifying the various connections of trade, technology and knowledge exchange, new forms of hard and soft infrastructure, diaspora and transnational opportunity creation, ecosystem linkages, to foster new economic and social systems based on entrepreneurship and innovation in the North and South;
- working towards the development of entrepreneurship as a social global movement.
More information is available in the conference notice downloadable here.
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Under the theme “Global Economy and the New Cycle of China’s Development” the Forum aimed at discussing the core issues of China’s economic development and innovative growth, assisting businesses to identify relevant opportunities as well as demonstrating China's global responsibility in the new era.
Read more about the event at this page.The World Investment Report 2018 on "Investment and New Industrial Policies”
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