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Barcelona, June 19th 2009

Bmat specializes in the development of music and audio technology software.

The South African company The Broccoli Project and Indian company Polyskin joined the podium in second and third position.

The competition brought together 28 of the most innovative bubusiness plans

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Barcelona, 19th June 2009

The summit brought together 2.000 delegates, of which 35% international, who got to know first hand, from the gurus of economy, the concepts and tools necessary to deal with the future challenges.

The event positioned itself as a meeting platform between investors and entrepreneurs to combine innovative ideas and financing.

The event also unveiled 65 of the best entrepreneurial projects in sectors that are strategic for the future.

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Barcelona, 18th June 2009

The Atlas is an initiative by the World Alliance for Innovation (WAINOVA) and directed by the Internation Association of Scientific parcs.

The Atlas references over 700 innovation nodes (technological and scientific parcs, business incubators and other scientific institutions) from around the world.

The Atlas’ online interface was developped by Spanish company Bestiario, a company specialised in dynamic data representation and in digital spaces for collective creation of knowledge

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Bmat, Histocell, Ingenia Telecom y Eytoo Bioscience, Spanish finalists in the Global Entrepreneurship Competition at HiT

Barcelona, 17th June 2009

Bmat, Histocell, Ingenia Telecom are the Winners of the third edition of the Entrepreneur XXI competition, promoted by “la Caixa” and ENISA.
The winner of  the XV Fòrum d’Inversió d’ACC1Ó, Eytoo Bioscience, represents Catalonia in the competition.

 

They are part of the 28 competing companies at the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, from 21 countries and all have the option to become one of the most innovative startup company in the world.

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President of the Catalan Government officially opens HiT Barcelona

Barcelona, 17th June 2009

José Montilla, President of the Catalan Government, officially opens the World Innovation Summit at Fira de Barcelona.  The Summit includes top international executives in three major sectors: Telecommunications, Cleantech and Healthcare.  68 of the most innovative companies from around the globe will be competing in each sector's Innovation Tournament.

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The 15 most innovative CleanTech companies in the world are competing at HiT Barcelona’09

Barcelona, 5th of June 2009

A non-polluting luxurious car, a third generation photovoltaic system, a recycling plant for electronic waste and an intelligent driver-less ecologic transport system are just a sample of the greatly innovative companies selected for the finals of the tournament.

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The GSMA announced the 10 finalists competing at HiT Barcelona's Telecom Innovation Marketplace Tournament

London, 20 May 2009

The GSMA announced the 10 finalists competing at HiT Barcelona's Telecom Innovation Marketplace Tournament, the EMEA leg of the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation ‘Grand Prix’.

Strong line up of speakers from Telefonica, HTC, Visa, Accenture and Bebo to offer insights at GSMA’s Mobile Innovation EMEA Event


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A project to improve the diagnosis of Turberculosis selected as finalists of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition

Barcelona, 7th May, 2009

AutoTB, developper of a device that reduces analysis time and eliminates the human error risk factor in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, a disease still affecting a third of the world’s population, selected from the University of Berkeley as a finalist in the Global Entrepreneurship Competition.

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Jeremy Rifkin, keynote speaker at HiT Barcelona

Barcelona, 6th May 2009

Jeremy Rifkin, keynote speaker at HiT Barcelona is one of the world gurus of the Cleantech sector and will explain the characteristics of an industrial revolution based on distributed energies.  Rifkin is an advisor to the Spanish and German governments as well as to the European Commission and Parliament on issues related to economy, climate change and energy security.

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Jerry Engel, Chairman of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition’s World Nominating Committee, explains the competition.



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