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Bridging the Enterpreneurial Gap - A European Perspective
Abstract
1. Trends in the high-tech market in Europe
a. General Internet Market
b. B2C
c. B2B
2. Insights in the Enterpreneurial Culture in Europe
a. Enterpreneurial deficit
b. Low tolerance of failure
c. Human Capital Deficit
d. Risk aversion
3. The evolution of the Incubator-profession worldwide
a. from buzz-word to hangover
b. self-inflicted wounds
c. fundamental problems
d. incubator 2.0
e. the true-to-the-model incubator
4. Incubation in Europe
a. Current Situation
b. Trends for 2000-2001
c. Best Practices
5. The Enterpreneur at the heart of every opportunity
6. Opportunities in the S.AI.L. Market
7. Conclusion
About the Speaker
Peter Demuynck graduated in 1990 from the UFSIA management school in Belgium and acquired an MBA-degree in Information Technology at the City University Business School in London 1991). After several internships with respectively Siemens AG in Germany, Tel Plus Communications in Florida and Siemens Automotive in France, he started his career in the summer of 1992 as Project Manager with Comshare Belgium, a management software company. After taking on Benelux Product Management responsabilities within Comshare, he decided to venture into the US job-market and moved to Houston, Texas in the beginning of 1996. After a one-year project as a senior training consultant for IBM, putting together training material for IBM's sales force, Peter succesfully helped an Austrian high-tech company penetrate the US-market as Director Business Development. In June 1998, he went back to his roots in Belgium, to join S.AI.L. Trust (formerly called Flandes Language Foundation), first as Platform Manager and later as Vice President Business Development, assisting in the establishment of new Centers of Excellence, as well as guiding and supporting the Business Development team in identifying and attracting high-potential startups to the S.AI.L. Ports. Peter was recently also nominated Vice President of BIA (Business Incubator Association) Europe, a pan-european association gathering Europe's leading incubators and promoting Entrepreneurship in Europe.
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