HiGroSME-Workshop on 28th October 2005 in Berlin

Date: 28 October 2005
Time: 9.00 - 16.30 h
Location: Max-Planck-Society, Harnack House, Ihnestrasse 16-20, 14195 Berlin

The first national HiGroSME Workshop on critical support needs of HiGroSMEs took place on the 28th October in Berlin. Under the title "High Growth SMEs and future European support schemes" the workshop dealt with defining high growth technology enabled SMEs, current support schemes for this target group, critical support needs and support gaps. Also the workshops seeked to explore ways to optimize present support offerings on national level and to develop new European support schemes for HiGroSMEs.

Invited were stakeholders from innovation research and support agencies, policy makers, venture capitalists, SMEs and their associations.

Workshop-Programm (.pdf-deutsch)
Workshop-Programme (.pdf-english)


Presentations of the workshop:

Christian Wehrmann: Presentation of the HiGroSME-Project (.pdf)

Prof. David Storey: What happens to gazelles? (.pdf)

Dr. Kay Pöhler: Lessons learnt - neue Förderansätze für schnell wachsende Unternehmen (.pdf)

Lars Michalak: Chancen und Risiken schnell wachsender KMUs (.pdf)

Tobias Schwind: Der kritische Sprung vom Forschungsergebnis zum kommerziellen Erfolg bei Spin-Offs (.pdf)

Jan Bohl: Ableton AG (.pdf)

Wolfgang Hierneis: MediaAnalyzer GmbH (.pdf)

Dr. Holger Patzelt: Crisis management in entrepreneurial biotech companies (.pdf)


Information:
Christian Wehrmann
VDI/VDE-IT GmbH
Steinplatz 1
10623 Berlin
Phone +49 (0)30 310078 197
Fax +49 (0)30 310078 225
eMail: higrosme@vdivde-it.de