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Living Labs at the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship

In the context of this event, the WSIE will hold three sessions on living labs.

The overall theme of this year edition will be ‘The New, Smarter Innovation Economy’ and following topics will be discussed:

 

In the context of this event, the WSIE will hold three sessions on living labs.

The overall theme of this year edition will be ‘The New, Smarter Innovation Economy’ and following topics will be discussed:

 

  • What qualities define the innovation economy?
  • Which cities, which countries will emerge as the world’s Future innovation economies?
  • How can your startup, your multinational develop connections with them?
  • Will future growth come from emerging innovation economy enterprises?
  • Why should the next U.S. Administration innovate smarter business-friendly policies?
  • How can we harness the power of social media data to create smarter leadership styles?
  • Which clean-tech innovations are delivering meaningful outcomes?
  • What’s next for smarter farming?
  • How immune are Chinese and Indian startup ecosystems?
  • Who are the world’s game changers in clean-tech, mobility and life sciences?
  • What must the World’s Hottest Startups do to out-innovate their competitors?
  • What’s next for the World’s Coolest Enterprises?

 

Some of the confirmed speakers are: Babson College President; A123 Systems CTO; Euro RSCG CEO Worldwide; Massive Health Co-Founder; SymbioSwiss Director General; Philips Lighting Chief Design Officer; Sambatech CEO; Dialogue Incubators Chief Inspiration Officer; Crimson Hexagon CEO; and Artefact Co-Founders and Principal Designers. This years summit partners are organisations such as MIT Technology Review, MIT Enterprise Forum, Boston University, Young Entrepreneur Council among others.

 

The organisers highlight the main components of the event: INNOVATION THEATRES: Engaging keynotes, special talks, plenary sessions, and town hall mashups. All focused on sharing smarter images of the future to guide our present path to the innovation economy: INNOVATION STUDIOS: Transformative interactive sessions, ideation labs, jams, and action workshops. The studios are the central spark for many genuine dialogues and unrehearsed conversations. Leading members to collaborate and map out future commitments, actions, and solutions; FUTURE PAVILION: Reveals the most fascinating enterprises and clusters changing our world. It includes the Global Hottest Startups, World’s Coolest Enterprises, and Future Game-Changing Innovations; MOST INNOVATIVE PEOPLE AWARDS: Celebrate the achievements of the world’s mavericks, geniuses, and icons from across all parts of business, society, technology, and environment. Former awardees include Desmond Tutu, Stephan Hawking, Bill Gates, Tarja Halonen, and many more; STARTUP UNIVERSE: Features a series of collaborations and competitions. It includes the entrepreneurial Innovivor series, two Startup Nights, one tech camp, open pitches to venture capitalists, and more.

For more information, see the event website (http://www.thewsie.org/).


As an ENoLL member, you have the change to attend this by-invitation-only conference with a generous discount on the registration fee. In order to ensure your waiver, you need to contact the ENoLL Office ([email protected]) as soon as possible. Note that the seats are limited, therefore this offer is on a first-come, first-served basis! For our ENoLL members, we hope that this conference would represent a possibility for further contacts, networking globally and understanding the new global trends of innovation and entrepreneurship, and therefore we assess that it might be an interesting opportunity for you.

 

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What is the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship?

 

The World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship was launched in 2006 at the United Nations under the support of three UN agencies, International Chamber of Commerce, African Union, in partnership with key multinationals like PepsiCo, Cisco, La Post, Boeing, Microsoft, CNBC, and Business Week. 

 

The Summit connects an elected group of the world’s most innovative people to exchange inspiring stories and architect meaningful actions for economic competitiveness and social innovation

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