3. About Me
- From Ireland, have also lived in US, UK, Norway, France, Spain
- Founding Team, Marrakech.com (raised $75m, Employed 250
people, still used today)
- MBA, IE Business School 2004
- Now VP Stratemic Capital
- Mentor at Venture Lab, Startup Bootcamp, Wayra
9. âPick a hot industry, build a technology park next to a
research university, provide incentives for businesses to
relocate, add some VC and then watch the magic happenâ.
Vivek Wadhwa
10. Key Drivers of Innovation
- communication channels that local
entrepreneurs maintain to the
outside world
- open-mindedness toward foreign
cultures, change and new ideasâ.
- Regional and national clusters are
âirrelevant for innovationâ
Companies that maintain ties only with players within the
same cluster are four times LESS LIKELY to innovate
than those which were globally connected.
13. âOf all required criteria, it is essential that the chosen
entrepreneurs work in a global mindset, believing that
the route to success is via expansion not isolation.â
14. âSilicon Valley, despite being at the center of
the digital world, is a hopelessly insular and
actually rather hermetic place.
Even its famous immigrant culture emphasizes
joining the SV way.
For all its talk of innovation, it resists almost
anyone who is not part of its mainstreamâ
16. âSpain needs a new economic modelâ
There was very little difference between
the policies of Socialist Prime Minisiter
Felipe GonzĂĄlez from 1982â96 and the so
called modernization programme of the
Franco dictatorship from the late 1950s.
The strategy for relaunching the economy
in the 1980s was based on deepening
Spainâs existing âspecializationsâ in tourism,
property development and construction, as
âcompetitive advantagesâ
17. âPara promover el espĂritu emprendedor como motor de
nuevos empleos y fuente inagotable de innovaciĂłn en
Españaâ
("To promote the spirit of entrepreneurship as an engine of
new jobs and inexhaustable source of innovation in Spain")
20. MĂle BuĂochas/ Thank you
Joe Haslam
Lives in: Madrid, Spain
joehas@gmail.com
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"Everyone lives by selling something"
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)