EUREKA EVENTS

EASTWEST 2012 - EAST meets West

The East-Meets-West on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Congress is organised by the European Office of Cyprus and will explore new tools to bring researchers and enterprises together from all over the world. The Congress will serve as a highlight global event for harnessing the potential of entrepreneurship to transfer innovation ideas into products and services.

The main objective of the event is to promote cross-national collaboration between East and West as a tool to overcome national limitations on knowledge, financial resources, technology and services.
It aims to improve links between scientific and business communities, promote private sector investment in science, innovation and enterprise development, encourage SMEs and scientists to exploit global knowledge resources and increase innovation financing mechanisms.

For this reason, the congress will trigger discussions on innovative policy tools and measures to build the necessary human capital, infrastructure and financial instruments to create and facilitate international collaborations.