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Encouraging entrepreneurship in EU regions and cities the role of the European Committee of the Regions Startup Europe Regions Network Moving Forward Brussels, 14 June 2017 Bert Kuby Head of Unit ECON Commission European Committee of
Five CoR priorities for 2015-2020
Economic recovery: taking a bottom-up approach Giving EU legislation a territorial dimension Helping businesses: simpler EU legislation & less red tape Stability to our borders: increased cooperation with neighbouring countries Bringing the EU closer to citizens
- CoR opinion on Smart Regulation
for SMEs (rapporteur: Christian Buchmann, adoption in Plenary on 12/13 July 2017)
- CoR opinion on the Start-up and
Scale-up Initiative (rapporteur: Tadeusz Truskolaksi, adoption in Plenary on 12/13 July 2017)
CoR consultative work
Study on governance of entrepreneurship policy
- Which
governance mechanisms help regions and cities build strong entrepreneurial ecosystems?
- Case studies of 13 EER regions
and 4 non-EER regions: Helsinki, Lower Austria, Western Greece, Lyon, Tel Aviv…
“The EER Award is oriented toward the future: It identifies and rewards regions with
- utstanding forward-looking
entrepreneurial visions.”
Luc Van den Brande, CoR Vice- President and initiator of the EER, September 2013
The European Entrepreneurial Region initiative
Main objective of the EER award
Encouraging EU regions and cities to encourage entrepreneurship and implement SME-, start-up- and scale-up-friendly policies.
The EER award in an inter-institutional setting
29 June 2017: EER annual meeting – Future of COSME
Which are the main challenges, bottlenecks and needs encountered at regional or local level that should be taken into account COSME is renewed?
12 July 2017: EER 2018 award ceremony
Thank you very much for your attention!
European Committee of the Regions
Unit C2 – Commission for Economic Policy, Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform, EER
Bert Kuby
Head of Unit Website: www.cor.europa.eu/eer E-mail: eer-cdr@cor.europa.eu Twitter: @EER_Award