ETRE roundtable on Entrepreneurship in Europe

Just participated in a great round table lead by Alex Vieux, George Coehlo from Benchmark, Ian Lobley from 3I, Bernard Yvetot from Invest in France  and other eminent persons and then there is me.

The topic is Entrepreneurs in Europe and the conclusions eloquently summed up by Alex and paraphrased by me are that in Europe the effects of Government policy, taxation and geography are not as potent as the ones of European societies tendency in general to punish both success and failure to harshly and thereby tend towards the mediocre.

One point I did not agree with for the future of entrepreneurial-ism is the one made about mobility which has been relevant in the past with the formation of clusters of excellence globally (like Silicon Valley) I feel that  the new generation of  entrepreneurs will be much more connected  in a virtual world and so  physical mobility  will be  less important in my view than digital  accomplishments.