Virtual Cluster Initiative

"Designing the Future - Innovation through Strategic Partnerships" #innovation #partnerships In essence, designing the future through strategic partnerships means to improve on the conditions which are presently at hand. A key element of innovation is the dialogue among concerned stakeholders. The influence and more affordable ICT has allowed us to integrate and bring new tools forward which can be applied to development, be it training, cross-sectoral / cross-border collaboration or setting a centralized framework and eliminating the geographical barrier “distance”. When we think of an ecosystem, we associate it with an environment or a place that is inter-linked. Entrepreneurship is about creating and capturing extraordinary value by offering a service or a product that is new to the market. Within the last decade and influenced by the evolving Internet economy, Porters ideas have been put increasingly into question. The economic conditions have now changed fundamentally. The project is a bottom-up approach and one example of this proposed idea that entrepreneurship to explore different tools and methods for giving support at the SME level. #future #development #collaboration #economy