PIC - Collaboration on Entrepreneurship with African InstitutionsMark Street
PIC Entrepreneurship Mission in Collaboration with African Institutes
Our goal is to work with and through our partners to build a solid platform that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with the business world and giving them the tools necessary to succeed. We aim to foster and convey the entrepreneurial spirit in Israel to stimulate creative minds, to form and build on pioneering ideas, thereby enriching lives with vibrancy, originality, and modernization. In collaborating with PIC, we expect our partners to sell our services to their students, business community and to a regional audience in which to promote their institution and development. This may be achieved in the form of international events, seminars, workshops, consultancies and international study tours.
PIC - Collaboration on Entrepreneurship with African InstitutionsMark Street
PIC Entrepreneurship Mission in Collaboration with African Institutes
Our goal is to work with and through our partners to build a solid platform that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with the business world and giving them the tools necessary to succeed. We aim to foster and convey the entrepreneurial spirit in Israel to stimulate creative minds, to form and build on pioneering ideas, thereby enriching lives with vibrancy, originality, and modernization. In collaborating with PIC, we expect our partners to sell our services to their students, business community and to a regional audience in which to promote their institution and development. This may be achieved in the form of international events, seminars, workshops, consultancies and international study tours.
In most developed nations, corporate social responsibility
(CSR) initiatives center on issues such as environmental sustainability, alternative energy, clean technology, and social welfare. Driving these activities, more often than not, is a company’s desire to appeal to strong consumer sentiment. But in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), CSR is becoming something fundamentally different.
RBF Africa 2018 - Transforming Africa’s Development Through Innovation, Youth...Global Initiatives
The Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development (RBF), held on the 25th – 27th June 2018 was co-organised by Global Initiatives and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the National Business Initiative and WWF South Africa. Under the theme ‘Transforming Africa’s Development through Innovation, Youth and Technology’, the Forum brought together over 400 international business, government and NGO leaders at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg.
On Monday, September 26, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered opening remarks for the 2016 Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum. The following is an excerpt of her remarks. Since 2000, AGOA has been the cornerstone of U.S. economic policy in Africa. The annual AGOA Forum serves as the premier event that brings together African Trade Ministers with U.S. counterparts to discuss how we can work together to enhance our trade and investment relationship.
Fostering a Startup and Innovation EcosystemTechstars
We are on a mission to make the world a more innovative and prosperous place, one community at a time.
We believe that entrepreneurs are critical to driving a strong global economy and a better world. We do our part by supporting the grassroots leaders who are at the core of every strong entrepreneurial community
Report - The Prosperity Index In Africahamishbanks
Entrepreneurs play a key role in fostering wealth and wellbeing for ordinary Africans; entrepreneurs are "enablers of growth" who break down economic barriers and social constraints.
Consumer to Creator: Advancing Entrepreneurship in the UAEWDU15
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This writing analyses research and seeks insight concerning:
the drivers of a knowledge economy;
the barriers and catalysts of entrepreneurship in the UAE;
unique perspectives of mindset and motivation;
the components of an entrepreneurial ecosystem;
the characteristics of effective entrepreneurial education;
issues of national identity, nation branding, personal and business branding;
models of global citizenship, civic participation and civil societies;
and
distinctive competitive advantages in UAE culture and history
with hope that this work can contribute to improved economic and social development for the UAE, other developing countries, individuals and all stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Innovation and entrepreneurship. africa in dillemaLeodegard Minani
This book emphasizes on explaining innovation and entrepreneurship at large and African position is annexed. It identifies the roadblocks for innovators and entrepreneurs and discusses ways for developing an ecosystem for innovators and entrepreneurs to pave a way through the barriers and create ground-breaking products and new technologies which meet consumers’ needs.
Slide presentation accompanying the paper titled: "Realizing Hong Kong's knowledge-based economy potential as part of a rising China" submitted to The Eighth Annual Conference of The Asian Study Association of Hong Kong, 8-9 March 2013
Disruptive innovation adds enormous value and margins to companies. If a company can create a new industry, this growth is exponential.
Yet, few companies do it well.
Yet, within it, innovation holds its own paradoxes: regular innovation creates expectations from investors and customers. Once the rate starts falling, the company is almost penalised for it, disproportionately.
Most companies pay lip service to innovation.
By remaining young at heart, a company can make the fundamental changes required to become innovative, outside of anecdotal changes that will be short-lived and that will not lead to a high innovation index.
How to use what makes your country unique to create competitive advantageDrthomasbrand Limited
How to leverage the unique strengths and capabilities of your company, country or region to create a sustainable business with a strong competitive advantage.
This article is done with specific emphasis on emerging markets where many local communities lack the resources or a sustainable way to create a higher standard of living for all. Examples are used to illustrate what countries and regions can do to resolve this challenge.
Essentially, it also endorses the fact that true competitive advantage lies in what a company can truly do authentically.
In most developed nations, corporate social responsibility
(CSR) initiatives center on issues such as environmental sustainability, alternative energy, clean technology, and social welfare. Driving these activities, more often than not, is a company’s desire to appeal to strong consumer sentiment. But in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), CSR is becoming something fundamentally different.
RBF Africa 2018 - Transforming Africa’s Development Through Innovation, Youth...Global Initiatives
The Responsible Business Forum on Sustainable Development (RBF), held on the 25th – 27th June 2018 was co-organised by Global Initiatives and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in collaboration with the National Business Initiative and WWF South Africa. Under the theme ‘Transforming Africa’s Development through Innovation, Youth and Technology’, the Forum brought together over 400 international business, government and NGO leaders at the Hyatt Regency in Johannesburg.
On Monday, September 26, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield delivered opening remarks for the 2016 Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum. The following is an excerpt of her remarks. Since 2000, AGOA has been the cornerstone of U.S. economic policy in Africa. The annual AGOA Forum serves as the premier event that brings together African Trade Ministers with U.S. counterparts to discuss how we can work together to enhance our trade and investment relationship.
Fostering a Startup and Innovation EcosystemTechstars
We are on a mission to make the world a more innovative and prosperous place, one community at a time.
We believe that entrepreneurs are critical to driving a strong global economy and a better world. We do our part by supporting the grassroots leaders who are at the core of every strong entrepreneurial community
Report - The Prosperity Index In Africahamishbanks
Entrepreneurs play a key role in fostering wealth and wellbeing for ordinary Africans; entrepreneurs are "enablers of growth" who break down economic barriers and social constraints.
Consumer to Creator: Advancing Entrepreneurship in the UAEWDU15
From Consumers to Creators: Advancing Entrepreneurship in the UAE discusses mobility, opportunity and sustainability in the UAE through: the mobility of skilled expatriates and unskilled migrants across class, ethnic and geographical boundaries; the opportunity to build truly cosmopolitan cultures and multicultural workplaces, neighborhoods and local-to-global markets; and the global values and civil societies needed to build social cohesion, agility and resilience for a thriving culture and sustainable economy.
This writing analyses research and seeks insight concerning:
the drivers of a knowledge economy;
the barriers and catalysts of entrepreneurship in the UAE;
unique perspectives of mindset and motivation;
the components of an entrepreneurial ecosystem;
the characteristics of effective entrepreneurial education;
issues of national identity, nation branding, personal and business branding;
models of global citizenship, civic participation and civil societies;
and
distinctive competitive advantages in UAE culture and history
with hope that this work can contribute to improved economic and social development for the UAE, other developing countries, individuals and all stakeholders in entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Innovation and entrepreneurship. africa in dillemaLeodegard Minani
This book emphasizes on explaining innovation and entrepreneurship at large and African position is annexed. It identifies the roadblocks for innovators and entrepreneurs and discusses ways for developing an ecosystem for innovators and entrepreneurs to pave a way through the barriers and create ground-breaking products and new technologies which meet consumers’ needs.
Slide presentation accompanying the paper titled: "Realizing Hong Kong's knowledge-based economy potential as part of a rising China" submitted to The Eighth Annual Conference of The Asian Study Association of Hong Kong, 8-9 March 2013
Disruptive innovation adds enormous value and margins to companies. If a company can create a new industry, this growth is exponential.
Yet, few companies do it well.
Yet, within it, innovation holds its own paradoxes: regular innovation creates expectations from investors and customers. Once the rate starts falling, the company is almost penalised for it, disproportionately.
Most companies pay lip service to innovation.
By remaining young at heart, a company can make the fundamental changes required to become innovative, outside of anecdotal changes that will be short-lived and that will not lead to a high innovation index.
How to use what makes your country unique to create competitive advantageDrthomasbrand Limited
How to leverage the unique strengths and capabilities of your company, country or region to create a sustainable business with a strong competitive advantage.
This article is done with specific emphasis on emerging markets where many local communities lack the resources or a sustainable way to create a higher standard of living for all. Examples are used to illustrate what countries and regions can do to resolve this challenge.
Essentially, it also endorses the fact that true competitive advantage lies in what a company can truly do authentically.
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How africa can eliminate poverty with market-creating innovation iCSR-in-Action
Africa’s ability to sustain its economic growth will depend mainly on how quickly it will be able to shift from reliance on traditional commodity markets to modern economic structures that focus on market-creating Innovation, which is defined as innovation that transforms existing product and service offerings into products and services that are cheap enough and accessible enough to reach an entirely new population of customers. In this piece, we address the issues surrounding the growth of the African market and proffer solutions on how to eliminate it.
Startup Cities: Cape Town, South Africa - Me Convention 2018Chinwag
Keith Jones, CoFounder at Sw7 presented Cape Town as part of the Startup Cities programme at the Me Convention 2018 in Stockholm featuring 20 cities, hosted by Sam Michel.
More at: https://toodlepip.co.uk/2018/20-startup-cities/
Silicon Valley is recognized globally as the birthplace of some of today’s most popular and iconic technologies. Many of its startups have a particular dynamic to thank for their success: the formation of clusters, or groups of companies and organizations that congregate in a region around a particular field.
Brett Gilbert, an associate professor in Rutgers Business School’s department of management and global business (and @ProfGilbert on Twitter), studies the formation and influence of these clusters. When a prominent university or a powerhouse company draws other, smaller organizations to its region, a tech cluster forms, supporting entrepreneurs as they develop their own breakthroughs. This model has been observed for decades in the United States. Now, emerging markets such as South Africa are seeing nascent cluster formation. And the success of these nations in the global economy may depend, at least in part, on their ability to make clusters work.
Gilbert, who has a Ph.D. in entrepreneurship from Indiana University and served a gubernatorial appointment as an advisory committee member for the Texas Emerging Technology Fund from 2008 to 2010, recently spoke with strategy+business about her research in the U.S. and abroad.
Africa is home to entrepreneurs who are spurring the continent's growth in unique and dynamic ways. More: http://knlg.net/1QJ426P
Knowledge@Wharton recently joined Katherine Klein, Wharton management professor and vice dean for the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, and Nick Ashburn, the Initiative’s director of emerging markets, at the African Leadership Network’s 2015 annual gathering where they interviewed 18 entrepreneurs and executives who are leading, launching, scaling and supporting businesses across the continent.
Betagroup #68 - Africa & Belgium : sharing common challenges?Mohammed Cherif
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How large corporates improve the way they innovateCapgemini
Mick Liubinskas is Entrepreneur in residence at muru-D – a startup accelerator backed
by Telstra, Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company. Mick
has a successful track record of startup creation. He was the co-Founder & Director
of Pollenizer, Australia’s first digital incubator, and was a co-founder of Startmate. At
muru-D, he is responsible for attracting and selecting high-potential technology startups
and then working with them to drive significant, global, long-term success. After many
years in Australia, Mick recently moved to Silicon Valley.
We spoke to him to understand how large corporates can improve the
way they innovate. Mick explains why entrepreneurs need to lead innovation initiatives at big corporates.
He also highlights the importance of proximity to tech hubs: “Innovation and entrepreneurship are about the 10,000 tiny discussions that are greatly helped
by proximity.”
An interview with Mick Liubinskas, entrepreneur-in-residence at muru-D, on the nature of innovation in large companies and how to build a culture of innovation.
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Within itself, innovation holds many paradoxes. It can become a rod for the back of a company. It can drive growth. It can motivate people. It can be very difficult to do. It may at some point become impossible to innovate a given product further. This article explores the paradoxes of innovation as a major driver of company success today.
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In this presentation, we explore what the concept is, how it works and why it matters. We investigate examples of brands that have done it right and brand that are struggling to do it right. We look at what factors make it succeed or fail.
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Can Innovation Create A Global Position For South Africa
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2. What will create a unique economic position for South Africa? It does not seem to be mining anymore, so what is it? Surely, dominance of African business can go a long way – but is that enough?
3. What will prevent South Africa from becoming just another emerging market? We see our global competitiveness slipping, this year down to number 54 out of 59 countries. There are more signs of that happening, than of us becoming unique. For how long will we have a window of opportunity? Or has that window already closed?
4. What is inherently part of the South African DNA that can be exported successfully? Is there such a unique DNA? If so – what is it?
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6. In the World Economic Forum competitiveness report of Africa in June 2009, South Africa only lags Tunisia in innovation;
9. We are used to dealing with uncertainty, a large number of “uncertainties” to be dealt with;
10. Humanity underlies our being (i.e. compromise, ubuntu, consultation, keeping community interests central);
11. Our country does well creatively (just in literature and advertising alone, South Africa has a significant global reputation);
12. An ability to attract “interpreters” from other countries in Africa – we often attract the best, like actuaries and other specialists from Zimbabwe.We already have some of the foundation elements in place to become a highly innovative nation of entrepreneurs, albeit in government, parastatals, academia, research or business. <br />To conclude<br />In my view, we have the opportunity – and residual set of capabilities, to become a generator for innovation, if not in a global context, at least within the emerging markets sphere – and specifically, within the BRIC(S) space. By leveraging these, we can become a highly successful nation that can offer the world something beyond natural resources. <br />To do this, will mean that we think this way – and align our government and business strategies and objectives, to take advantage of this. It will start with a clear dissection of what we are good at, within specific areas, and putting the policies and programs in place to do that. <br />Whilst there are many approaches to innovate, it seems as though an aptitude for it is the most significant driver of it. It also impacts company culture and a general receptivity for change, ideas and open-communication. Within such a context, it makes a company become collaborative, rather than hierarchical. <br /> <br />