As the patron of the Startup Campus programme, József Pálinkás who also joined in the round-table discussion at the event, said: in the case of the refundable type of new sources i.e. venture capital programmes too, it is vital to ensure that funding goes to value-creating and competitive projects with real perspectives. He mentioned, as another milestone in the development of the innovation ecosystem, the Startup Campus Budapest project to be implemented in two buildings of the Millenáris area, which will definitely provide further inspiration to the innovative ideas of various generations, with its versatile training and business development services, co-working and event facilities.
The presentation of József Pálinkás is available for downloading here: Inspiring smart innovation (PDF 1090 KB)
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Reaching beyond the country borders, the Startup Campus programme aims to foster innovative ideas shooting up at universities, providing young innovators and Hungarian or CEE startups with professional mentorship to help them enter the global markets. This series of events combined with startup competitions revealed 250 business projects of more than two thousand young talents in the last two years, and allowed 50 innovative businesses this year to present themselves. And what is more: a close cooperation and a collective thinking has been starting to evolve between local incubators, universities, municipalities and local domestic enterprises for an advanced innovation ecosystem. Both the organisers and the professional jury encountered quite a few ideas at each event which can be worth considering for the venture capital programmes (incubation, seed, growth) run by the Hiventures Fund Management company.