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| bizbarcelona: salon emprendedor 2011, Barcelona |
BizBarcelona: the Trade Fair for entrepreneurs and investors: 15th-16th June 2011, Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona.
Hundreds of young entrepreneurs have gathered for the last two days at Barcelona' Trade Fair district, the first entrepreneur event of its kind in this Mediterranean city.
What has saved Barcelona from falling into a crisis as deep as the rest of Spain's? The short answer is its diversified economy: as Jordi Hereu, the previous mayor of Barcelona, states, there is not one sector of the economy which is over 20% of the interior product. This effectively means that when the crisis started, and the Spanish construction boom suddenly became the Spanish construction abyss, Barcelona was less damaged by the effects due to its lesser reliance on construction and its larger output in other sectors such as technology and science.
This entrepreneurs' show aims to bring together over 12,000 people, ranging from major international companis such as Telefonica, Intel, Philips and VISA to the youngest of entrepreneurs from a range of countries, although mostly from Spain, and in particular Barcelona.
I attended three talks: I only had three and a half hours at the Fair, so I was unable to do much more really! The first post will be about the location; the following three posts will be dedicated individually to the three lectures/conferences/debates I attended; I will then try to outline major points I have learnt from these three hours in a few folowing posts. So keep looking at the blog to find more information.
If anyone reading this works out how to include things like graphs and so on, let me know and I might be able to include some too!
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