HOW TO TURN A “LOST GENERATION” OF ENGINEERS IN IRAN INTO AN INNOVATION ASSET
Iran’s Wealth of Untapped Engineering Talent During the trip to Iran, one thing we noticed was the great number of engineers and scientists in the country. There are a few reasons for this. First, Persia has historically been a center for science and has made important contributions to our current understanding of nature, medicine and […]
IRAN SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ITS PERSIAN DIASPORA TO BECOME A STARTUP NATION
The Story of Persian Diaspora: Immigrants and Emigrants Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, millions of Iranians have migrated to other parts of the Middle East, US, Europe, and other areas around the world. The political crackdown following the 2009 election protests has also accelerated the exodus of Iranians. There is no exact number for […]
Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013: How entrepreneurship is fit for Asia's electrifying youth
I’m always a bit wary of politicians’ speeches. After all, this is their profession. This morning, however, in the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, I was amazed and enthused after Malaysia PM Najib Razak’s and US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speeches. Together, they launched the 4th edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit immediately after the Global Youth Startup where 500 youths gathered to tackle the world’s […]
Malaysia as a Startup Hub! What are the next steps?
For a young country, Malaysia has quite an extensive history of building its own innovation ecosystem. It opened its Multimedia Super Corridor back in 1997. The time has now arrived – and it also has for neighboring Singapore – to scale to greater heights. The aim: to have significant and successful startups so that people can associate a global brand with […]
Africa is the future, but their innovation ecosystems need help
The quality and diversity of panelists and delegates of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur make it possible to learn a lot about distant innovation and startup ecosystems, as we’ve shown with these insights from Russia, Indonesia and New York. We’ve also met with a lot of people from Africa and have tried to connect as much as possible. As a speaker said […]
Malaysia startup ecosystem: build it, and they should come
How is managed the Malaysia startup ecosystem? What are the specifics of this 30m people country located between Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand? Can a resource-based country turn its population into entrepreneurs and innovators? Following our trip at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013, we compiled data from people we met, startups we talked to, and data found here […]
How Russia, Tanzania, Indonesia and the US analyze their own startup ecosystems
Is there a 2nd best innovation ecosystem? Answering the question “what is the 2nd best innovation ecosystem in the world” is both provocative and eye-opening. No one seems to be able to identify a comparable model to what Silicon Valley has built over the last 50-60 years (see this cool timeline from NPR). And the second “rank”, if it still makes […]
L’intérêt du Global Entrepreneurship Summit Nous entamons notre tour du monde des écosystèmes d’innovations de 10 mois à Kuala Lumpur, où se tient cette semaine du 7 octobre 2013 la 4e édition du Global Entrepreneurship Summit. L’intérêt de cet événement est triple: d’une part, il nous permet de commencer ce périple en Asie du Sud-Est, une région à la fois […]
