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WHO, WHY, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN?
A major new international convention on enterprise promotion will be staged
in the Harrogate International
Centre
in Yorkshire on 15-17 November 2009. The event will showcase best
practice and innovation in the creation and support of small businesses
world-wide. This is a unique opportunity for all business advisers, coaches,
consultants, counsellors,
educators, financiers, mentors and trainers to promote their own successes and to
network with like-minded specialists in SME creation and development from
all around the world.
Several of the UK’s leading organisations in the
small business support sector are expected to take key roles in the
presentation of case studies and examples of best practice.
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more details.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
This
Convention is
being
organised on a low-cost not-for-profit basis so that as many SME specialists
and support organisations as possible can attend from both the UK and
overseas – for example:–
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Business
Advisers, Coaches,
Consultants
& Mentors
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Entrepreneurship Educators, Teachers & Trainers
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Financiers, Venture Capitalists & Accountants
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Incubation and Innovation Centres & Science Parks
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Policy makers on small business support and regeneration
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SME
Support Organisations & Enterprise Agencies
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Trade
Associations, Chambers of Trade & Commerce, etc.
Facilities will
be made available for each special interest group to have their own Plenary
and Workshop Sessions plus appropriate evening social events within the
overall programme for the Convention.
This new Convention is an opportunity for many overseas delegates
to exchange views and learn about best practice in enterprise promotion.
Leading international figures are expected from enterprise
education
and training, from business support agencies and from government SME
policy-makers.
WHY
ATTEND?
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Interact with leading practitioners, policy-makers, entrepreneurs &
advisers
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Hear
case histories from many successful enterprise promotion programmes
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Share
best practice in business creation and support services world-wide
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Exchange experience in entrepreneurship education and training
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Debate new approaches to small business management and development
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Consider applications and policy implications of many innovations
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Develop existing networks and establish new working relationships
WHAT ARE THE TOPICS?
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A - Advancing entrepreneurship education and training world-wide
B - Business creation & development - stimulating start-ups
C - Community, ethnic, minority, rural and social enterprises
D - Developing enterprise in emerging and transition economies
E - E-business, e-learning, e-mailing and website marketing
I - Innovation, incubation, networks and knowledge transfer
M - Management, skills, environmental and global growth issues
S - Supporting small business development world-wide
V - Venture capital, business angels, finance and taxation
W- Women's enterprise and family business development
Y - Youth enterprise support programmes world-wide
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for details of Topics in each Theme.
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WHERE?
Harrogate International
Centre, Yorkshire, England, HG1 5LA
www.harrogateinternationalcentre.co.uk
WHEN?
Sunday, 15th to Tuesday,
17th November 2009
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