For nearly four decades, EBN and the EU|BIC community have championed innovation, playing a vital role in regional development, job creation, and supporting startups and SMEs. We align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and European strategies, such as the European Green Deal, to drive sustainable growth and innovation. Together, we’re paving the way for a cleaner, sustainable future and empowering underrepresented entrepreneurs. Through our EU|BIC Innovation Ecosystem Framework, we’re forging a path for global innovation and sustainable growth.
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Celebrating EU|BIC Community Members on Europe’s Leading Startup Hubs Ranking
The EU|BIC community’s remarkable presence on the Financial Times’ Europe’s Leading Startup Hubs ranking speaks volumes about their collective impact. With 12+ members featured, their commitment to fostering innovation across Europe is evident. From Germany to Spain, these EU|BICs exemplify diversity and excellence, driving the continent’s entrepreneurial spirit forward. Congratulations to all involved for their outstanding contributions to Europe’s innovation landscape.
Opportunity Alert for EU|BIC Members’ Clients: BIC Africa Mid-Term Evaluation Call for Consultancy Services
Calling all project evaluation consultancy companies! BIC Africa is seeking your expertise for a mid-term evaluation of their groundbreaking project. This initiative, launched in January 2020, aims to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in Africa, backed by EU funding.
BEST PRACTICE: EU|BIC FUNDECYT-PCTEX
We developed and established our human-centred methodologies for better social entrepreneurship support programmes. In all, people are in the centre. People are the solution to social problems; human interaction is the method to identify problems and design solutions.
Time to rethink the way we do business and re-strategise I Laura Lecci, CEO of EBN
Amid the still-unfolding impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, increasing unrest on European territories and the effects of climate change, innovation systems change is no longer a buzzword. It is an urgent call to action for the business community.
Final event of Better Incubation project
Last Friday the final event of the Better Incubation project was held with great success! The event started in the morning with an EU Policy Workshop aimed at sharing and validating Better Incubation Policy Recommendations with policymakers, researchers, BSOs, investors for impact, regional development agencies, national agencies for social innovation and pan-European networks like Eurocities and Euclid.
Tools for transformative change:
UN Climate Change Global Innovation
Hub
A key barrier to transformative innovation to support combatting climate change is the absence of a moonshot mindset when setting targets.
Connecting the world through innovation
Global networks and knowledge flows are broadening innovation ecosystems’ borders, eroding and redrawing them, and contributing to the emergence of an international system of innovation.
Minerva Business Angels drive forward the Green Economy – EU|BIC University of Warwick Science Park
The Minerva Business Angels, powered by the University of Warwick Science Park, were recently named the 2nd most active investment group for green projects in the UK. Since 2010, Minerva has invested in more than £20million in over 100 companies, which has, in turn, helped those companies leverage more than £60million.
Pre-acceleration programme Boost Your Ideas – EU|BIC Lazio Innova
Boost Your Ideas (BYI) pre-acceleration program had been set up to scout innovative solutions for the economic and competitive repositioning of Lazio in the post-Covid recovery. According to the success of the first edition of the initiative in 2020, the program has now reached its 4th edition (ongoing). It provides mentorship and rewards in services and money to the best solutions selected at the end of its 3rd phase.