The next INSME Annual Meeting will take place on 1 and 2 December in Baku, Azerbaijan, co-organised with INSME member KOBIA, the Agency for Development of SMEs in Azerbaijan. INSME members are invited to participate to the conference and in the INSME General Assembly on 2 December.
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On 25 and 26 October, the World Business Angels Forum took place in Antalya, “Digital transformation for post-pandemic economies”. At this occasion, INSME President Sergio Arzeni discussed Turkey's policy towards the creation of new SMEs and facilitating their access to credit.
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INSME President Sergio Arzeni and Prof. Jay Mitra (INSME Board Member) attended the first edition of the virtual African Research Initiative Conference on 24-26 October, discussing sustainable innovative entrepreneurship research with Africa through transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives.
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On 26 October, the RaDAR project, in which INSME is involved as partner, was presented during the 2022 IEEE MetroXRAINE Congress in Rome, Italy. Later the same week, RaDAR partners met for the project’s fourth Consortium Meeting. Find out more about RaDAR here.
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INSME joins the Union for the Mediterranean Conference
The Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat organized in Nicosia on 6 and 7 October 2022 a Conference “Enhancing SMEs resilience in face of future shocks”. Giovanni Zazzerini, INSME Secretary General, attended the event to discuss how to best support SMEs during crises and funding towards twin transitions.
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Updates and contributions from INSME Members
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BDB presented its financial and guarantee products at SIM Expo 2022
The Bulgarian Development Bank was a partner of the SIM Expo 2022 international conference on 3 and 4 October in Sofia. The event was organized by the Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency together with the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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The 2022 Intellectual Property SME Scoreboard by the EU Intellectual Property Office provides valuable data towards the implementation of the European Commission’s SME strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe and its IP action plan.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has forecasted an economic growth in the Mediterranean region of 66 per cent in 2021 to 2.9 per cent in 2022, according to their latest report, with inflation and pressures on foreign reserves increasing in 2022.
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We are happy to receive your updates: share with us your projects, activities, and events: we will include them in the next INSME Newsletter and spread the information among our readers! Email us at secretariat@insme.org
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