Canada announces $20M fund for women entrepreneurs
27th October, 2018 – New federal program will provide up to $100,000 for female business owners to grow their operations. Women entrepreneurs in Canada will now have access to $20-million in federal cash, thanks to a new fund announced by the govern...
GEW Germany Changing Mindset around Social Entrepreneurship
15th October, 2018 – #GEW2018 is now a month away, so here’s a look at what countries around the world are doing to celebrate their local startups and entrepreneurship in their communities. For Germany, the country has been celebrating Global ...
Potentials of Blockchain Technology In Africa
October 14th, 2018 – blockchain is one of the major tools to drive the next industrial revolution. Therefore, nations are constantly fine-tuning the technology for various applications as the potential embedded in it are limitless. It is safe to say tha...
The European Blockchain Partnership Finds Europe Getting Serious About Distributed Ledger Technology
October 14th, 2018 – On April 10, 2018, 21 EU member states and Norway signed up to create the European Blockchain Partnership. Including the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland, they committed themselves to “cooperate in ...
Southeast Asia is Ripe For a Cashless Revolution
12th October, 2018 – Southeast Asia’s rapidly rising internet and smartphone penetration rates means that cashless solutions will make a significant impact on the region’s financial ecosystem. Thanks to new FinTech advancements, we’re now bett...
Using tech to unlock markets for Africa SMEs
14th October, 2018 – African spending is projected to reach $6.7 trillion by 2030, with some reports indicating a $2.1 trillion consumer spending projection by 2025. While it is exciting to share the continent’s potential, it still faces many hurd...
Accompanying European SMEs on their Open Innovation Journeys
9th October, 2018 – Within INSPIRE (standing for Integrated Support of oPen Innovation pRofessionalization initiative), a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission under H2020, we have investigated in depth Open Innovation (0...
Bank of America (BoA) Sees Blockchain Market Growing to $7 Billion
5th October, 2018 – According to a recent report from analysts at Bank of America (BoA), the blockchain market could be getting a lot bigger. CNBC reported that BoA thinks that blockchain could take over two percent of corporate servers’ computing...
A workforce boom makes SMEs more important than ever in Africa
21th September, 2018 – Forty-nine countries have signed up so far this year to join the African Continental Free Trade Area, which is the latest contribution to a perennial debate: how to create more jobs on the African continent. The need to remove...
FNB receives 50 million US-dollars to accelerate SME development
8th September, 2018 – First National Bank (FNB) has received 50 million US-dollars from the DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft to deploy towards small and medium enterprise (SME) development in South Africa. DEG is a development...
