East African E-commerce: key findings from iHub Research team in Nairobi
The #Afrikoin conference is organized and hosted by iHub, Kenya’s famous and main innovation platform for web technologies. Their research arm, iHub Research, gave us a few insights on a research they have been running in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) on e-commerce. The first e-commerce ventures in East Africa used to focus on affluent costumers and the […]
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 […]
Comparing or Connecting Startup Ecosystems?
Our project and mission in Kuala Lumpur is to learn how innovation ecosystems work all over the world, starting in year #1 with by visiting 10 countries over the next 10 months during their key events. We had covered our first ecosystem while attending Austin’s SXSW back in March 2013. We talked about a crowd funding campaign, tons of contents, contacts, […]
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 […]
Building an Entrepreneurial University: Global Entrepreneurship Summit
A tale of 2 universities Some universities can be a place for innovators to learn and grow. Others are an obstacle to innovation. On the one hand, companies like Google are tightly intertwined with the support from their partner universities. They are a place to nurture ideas, spearhead research, establish patents and are sometimes first drivers for growth. On the other hand, many […]
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 […]
Global Startup Youth: entrepreneurs from around the world gather to solve big problems
GSY: World’s brightest young minds gather to innovate The 4th Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which took place in Kuala Lumpur, was complemented by a host of other events to gather the many stakeholders of an innovation ecosystem. One of these events was Global Startup Youth, a 3-day program involving about 500 youths aged 18-25 from 105 countries. It was […]
Les événements et conférences du Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 de Kuala Lumpur
Les sujects importants du Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 Pour vous faire découvrir l’écosystème d’innovation de la Malaisie, voici une partie du programme que nous nous proposons de suivre et restituer, en live sur Twitter (@martpasquier, @nicolasloubet, #rockmyGES2013, #GES2013), et en léger différé pour les articles sur notre Strikingly. Nous suivrons quatre sessions dans la matinée, à […]
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 […]
Getting rid of competition and convincing non-customers with Blue Ocean Strategy
Chan Kim, Chair Professor of INSEAD Business School delivered an energetic and humorous speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Kuala Lumpur, after Malaysia PM Najib Razak and US Secretary of State John Kerry had opened it (see wrap up of the keynote). This professor is known for a strategy called « Blue ocean ». Blue, because he envisions a business […]
