The YES Coordination Manager Chiara de Caro participated as a moderator at the Final Conference of ERIK ACTION project, which was hold in Florence (Italy) on 11 May 2010. ERIK ACTION is an INTERREG IVC Capitalisation project running from 1st june 2008 until 30 June 2010 to improve the effectiveness of regional development policies on innovation and ito upgrade the innovation capacity of existing entreprises through the exchange of best practices. Ms. De Caro moderated a session on "Uprading Innovation Capacity through Investment in Youth and Human resources".


 

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During the months of April and May YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs will carry on a research on Strategic Entrepreneurship asking its members to answer a small questionnaire both in paper and through e-mail.

 

Today’s managers are faced with rapidly changing and fast-paced competitive environments. To cope with such challenges, management theorists have suggested that an entrepreneurial approach to strategy making may be vital for organizational success. Aim of the survey will be to analize the entrepreneurial strategy-making processes that key decision makers use to enact their firm’s organizational purpose, sustain its vision, and create competitive advantages.

  

The main research questions will be:

1)    how strategic entrepreneurship is implemented in different environments,

2)    to what extend it varies from county to country and from industry to industry,

3)    how decision making is affected,

4)    by which processes entrepreneurial behavior enhances a firm’s competitive position

5)    to what extend managers and technology influence decisions and

6)    how strategic entrepreneurship is connected with company’s performance

 

The data collected will first be classified by company size, industry and company characteristics and then comparisons and conclusions will be made for useful results and information.

 

The survey will result in a written publication to be issued in 2011.

Should you be interested in taking part in the survey, please download the questionnaire here and send it back to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or via fax at +32 22803317.
 

 

Alicante, Spain, April 9, 2010 – Today YES-European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs welcomed Mr. Chris Hughes, co-founder of the popular social network Facebook to its EXECOM meeting held in Alicante, Spain. The event was hosted in the auditorium of IFA – Institución Felial Alicantina and was organised in cooperation with CEAJE - Confederation of Spanish Young Entrepreneurs, IFA, Grupo CESCE and the City Council of Elx.

Under the title “Do business with social networks” Mr. Hughes gave his inspiring speech  before  a  large audience. He addressed the participants to tell his fascinating entrepreneurial story dating back to college when together with two roommates at Harvard University, when they started a simple tool to connect students among themselves.

After showing some data to explain the impressive growth of Facebook in the last years – 400 millions of users of which 100 millions are mobile users - Mr. Hughes shared with the audience seven simple tips to succeed. Being lucky an important  component of success, his main lesson to young entrepreneurs was to always bear in mind a vision of the world in which they would like to live and try to create it. 

 
He also reminded that being successful means to have an idea that will affect lives of people in a positive way. In this regard, he mentioned his new web start up, Jumo, a platform for voluntarism.



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