INVITATION
Press Conference:
EU|BIC Impact Report
Incubating innovation
Accelerating entrepreneurs – Trends 2014-2016

26^th September 2017 | 15:00 – 17:00
Press Club Brussels Europe
95 Rue Froissart B-1040

15:00 – Registration and Welcome at Press Club Brussels Europe

15:15 – Introduction – Presentation and Moderation: Javier Echarri, CEO - EBN

15:35 – Panel discussion

Patrick Valverde, President - EBN

Michael Maddock, Vice-President - EBN

Nicola-Elizabeth MORRIS, Policy Officer - DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs

16:10– Q&A session

16:30 – End of the event

EBN is the international network of certified Business and Innovation Centres (EU|BICs) that have the mission to foster local economic growth. Each year, the EU|BICs provide EBN with precious information in the form of structured data and of success stories, and this conference will be the moment of launching the results of a three years trend in the innovation ecosystem: the Impact Report.

EU|BICs have adjusted their services and transformed themselves to better answer the entrepreneurial challenges, while catering for more than 82.000 clients, EU|BICs evaluated more than 160.000 ideas. Join us to find out more about the impact of all this work.

We will therefore in a panel discussion discover all the insights of the innovation ecosystems in Europe, and through the analysis of the past three year, how the future could be shaped in order to continuing promoting entrepreneurship.

The languages of the conference will be English and French.

We kindly ask you to confirm your presence by sending an email to: marta.gomez@ebn.eu