Conclusions Stakeholder Meeting on the Future of Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean
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February 2012
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Discussed Topics Innovative Entrepreneurship What kind of entrepreneurial initiatives can we co-create to tap into these opportunities? Partnerships for Policy Making What partnerships are needed 覺n Turkey and the Med覺terranean reg覺on to activate these enablers? Tools for Education in Sustainable Entrepreneurship What actions are needed to scale up the best practices in the Mediterranean? Infrastructure for Cleaner Production What infrastructure is needed? CP/RAC & CSCP
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Wrapping-up: What to take home?
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We discussed what is the basket of 'sustainable entrepreneurship’. Many legs touching the industry, the poor, usually excluded, middle class, etc. It is about replicating eco-efficient technologies, it is about eco-products, it is about resource management but most of all innovation for satisfying basic needs.
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We heard that we should connect better with financiers. We should be inclusive of financial institutions in our next steps.
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We could facilitate exchange between start-ups and existing green businesses. An exchange platform for idea generation could be done.
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The role of universities in disseminating sustainable entrepreneurship is crucial. Universities are the incubators of future engineers, business men/women, managers, economists, lawyers. Accordingly introducing SCP teaching as crosscutting in all and MBA schools.
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Wrapping-up: What to take home? • Lets replicate SMART Start-up further in Turkey and other Med countries! • Perhaps a bigger inclusive event! (all relevant organizations) • Take advantage of the green business ideas and concepts developed right here to ınspıre possıble future projects and actıons ın the framework of the cooperatıon ınıtıatıves for GE • In Turkey specifically we are looking forward to discussing the idea of a network on sustainable entrepreneurship that can aim at exchange of lessons-learned and framing of the theme.
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Thank you for working with us! See you soon… Görüşmek üzere! CSCP – UNEP / WI Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production