This document discusses three major issues facing innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe: mobility and visa policies, education and work readiness, and access to information and equal opportunity. It notes that U.S. venture capitalists invest primarily in U.S. companies while European VCs invest in Europe. It highlights quotes from Neelie Kroes about Europe losing its position of industrial advancement in the 21st century. The document also discusses challenges like high youth unemployment in Greece and efforts to increase access to education through free classes and mobile training programs.

1. E U R O P E ' S B E TA M O D E .
Relaunching Europe / Thessaloniki / Jan. ‘14
Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou (@kalavros)
Found.ation TEDxAthens Nest Media

2. L E T ’ S TA L K
A B O U T:
• Europe’s current condition.
• 3 major European issues
that, imho*, kill innovation
and entrepreneurship.
• good news.
*in my humble opinion

3. “Europe. Here is what I mostly hear about Europe: “I took my
wife/husband to Paris last year for our anniversary, and we
dropped by Rome. Great food, so much history, Europe is
wonderful!” For vacation.”

4. U.S.-based VCs invest in U.S. companies, and European VCs invest in
Europe.

6. “I saw many EU passports in Silicon Valley.”
–NEELIE KROES
!
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE @EU_COMMISSION LEADING
@ D I G I TA L A G E N D A E U A N D # C O N N E C T E D C O N T I N E N T P L A N S .

8. “Europe lead the industrial advancement in the
last two centuries. We lost this position in the 21st
Century. We must return.”
–NEELIE KROES
!
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE @EU_COMMISSION LEADING
@ D I G I TA L A G E N D A E U A N D # C O N N E C T E D C O N T I N E N T P L A N S .

10. #Mobility and #EUStartupVisa
=
=
culture
policy

11. “(i) a qualified venture capitalist, a qualified super angel investor, … or such other entity
or set of investors, as determined by the Secretary, has devoted a qualified investment
of not less than $100,000 to the alien’s United States business entity;…”
!
- Immigration reform bill, June 2013

12. #Education and #WorkReadiness

13. “If you think of it, children starting school this year
will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue -despite all the expertise that's been on parade for
the past four days -- what the world will look like
in five years' time. And yet we're meant to be
educating them for it..”
–SIR KEN ROBINSON
!
TED CONFERENCE 2006

14. Fast forward, 2014. 6 / 10 of young Greeks, of
my age, are unemployed.

15. Found.ation has hosted more than 85 *free of charge*
Educ.ation Classes on Web Development, Web
Design, Marketing, Business, Legal and Accounting
since May 2013.

17. #AccesstoInformation and
#EqualOpportunity

18. Campusbus travels around the country,
setting up week long training camps in
larger towns and cities where trainers
deliver skills improvement workshops.

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20. Human Grid Greece, a TEDxAthens project
171 verified grass-roots movements. We have more.
Email us info@humangrid.gr

21. Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou (@kalavros)
Found.ation TEDxAthens Nest Media