18.05.2017 The German-Belarusian Economic Club organized a round table event for its members on the topic “Start-ups in Germany and Belarus: potential and trends”. The event took place in the conference hall of the Club’s member Johannes Rau International Education Centre in Minsk. The round table session was opened by presentations of invited experts from Germany and Belarus, which were followed by a lively discussion between the presenters and the Club members.<\/p>\n
The informative part of the meeting started with the presentation of Mr. Denis Friedrich, representative of Innovestment GmbH, dedicated to the development of start-up movement in Germany (the presentation is available in the section for Club members). The Berlin-based company is one of the leading providers of funding for innovative projects and start-ups and provides start-ups with the necessary financial and technical resources via crowdfunding, crowdfunding, and venture capital. The company’s extensive experience is evidenced by more than 2,000 applications reviewed and around 40 successfully financed projects.<\/p>\n
This was followed by speeches of Belarusian experts widely known in professional circles and who are the first instances in everything that concerns start-up industry – Sergey Naidovich, Director General of Small Business Incubator UAB “MAP CJSC” and Rima Mechislavovna Yepur, Director General of Youth Social Service KUP. Both incubators belong to the oldest and most successful structures in this area in Belarus and represent two pillars of the business incubator system: private organizations (CJSC “MAP CJSC”) and state organizations (KUP “Youth Social Service”). Hardly any other structure in Belarus can boast of experts with more experience and knowledge of the peculiarities of this area than our roundtable panelists.<\/p>\n
While in Germany the favourable conditions for the emergence and further development of start-ups cause the emergence of a considerable number of new companies, especially in IT and among research spin-offs, young companies in Belarus are not systematically supported. The main difference between both countries when it comes to start-up support is that the German approach implies creating a wide range of conditions for promising ideas and their further implementation, while Belarus tries to stimulate problematic areas on a point-by-point basis with material and financial, and technical resources. That was the conclusion we came to during the roundtable on start-ups in Germany and Belarus.<\/p>\n
The willingness of our guests to share their knowledge with the Club members and our partners from GET Belarus and to talk openly about the problems was the key to an informative and interesting event, which covered a very special and non-trivial topic.<\/p>\n
The large amount of positive feedback was a reason for the Board members and the Club’s representative office to use the Round Table format more intensively for further specialized events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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