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Fuelling the European economy through entrepreneurship & SMEs

Entrepreneurship & SMEs

We are working to fuel the European economy by supporting SMEs and start-ups succeed, generating new jobs and advocating for a more dynamic policy framework for entrepreneurship. These young companies can help extend the reach of technology and create new opportunities for them as well as for us. In this section, you will find information on our transformative technology and its economic impact in Europe, as well as our programmes and collaboration with SMEs and start-ups. Hear first-hand success stories from small businesses as well as the challenges they face. 

LATEST ENTRIES ON Entrepreneurship & SMEs

Webcast: StormModels-a case study of migrating legacy web applications to Azure

Webcast: StormModels-a case study of migrating legacy web applications to Azure

17 May 2013

This presentation outlines how digital agency, and Azure specialist, Sequence, worked with Storm to leverage the benefits of Azure, and in doing so how the brought a new lease of life to the Storm models web application real estate. Richard will outline how Storm use digital as part of their business, the challenges they faced in migrating a legacy platform, how Sequence made use of the Azure toolset and...

Soha Hohnecker

The latest innovation hotspot: Finland is a sauna for start-ups

Soha Hohnecker, Audience Marketing Manager, Microsoft - 17 May 2013

The spirit of entrepreneurship in Finland is strong. No longer do ambitious youngsters automatically think about getting a job. Creating a start-up straight out of college is now seen as a valid and exciting career choice.

Mark Lange

IP promotes breakthroughs in fight against cancer

Mark Lange, Director EU Institutional Relations - 15 May 2013

In the field of cancer detection, prevention and treatment, new ideas are helping to save lives and to improve quality of life during and following treatment. Ideas Matter hosted an impressive event on 14 May in London, during Cancer Prevention Week in the UK, to present some innovative technologies that are making a difference in the battle against cancer, and to ask innovators to describe how...

Mark Lange

Dutch company makes digital distribution in the Cloud easy across Europe

Mark Lange, Director EU Institutional Relations - 30 April 2013

This month, we celebrate the success of a small Dutch start-up named Atomblock that has recently evolved and become a division of a much larger European company named ALSO.  Atomblock is now called ALSO Digital.  It is a cloud-based infrastructure company that helps game publishers, software publishers and retailers to sell their products on a global scale – in other words, providing a cloud...

Soha Hohnecker

From PhD project to successful business– Infotron founder Felienne Hermans tells her story

Soha Hohnecker, Audience Marketing Manager, Microsoft - 23 April 2013

Felienne Hermans is proof that it’s possible to start a successful company while still a student. Set up two years ago, Netherlands-based Infotron is not only generating revenue, it can count among its customers impressive names such as PWC, ING and KLM. The concept is brilliantly simple but powerful: Infotron analyses Excel spreadsheets so that companies can reduce the risk and cost that hidden...

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