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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

At the same time we have several culturally-driven attitudes holding us back. In my view, our culture around ambition and success needs work (note: this is as much a European problem as it is a Dutch one): Work a little harder? So is the Dutch tech startup story sold short? Not in my view. So let’s take stock: What do we offer?

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

We also want to enable European venture capital with European funds, European knowledge and European teams Cédric O. But we also want to enable European venture capital with European funds, European knowledge and European teams,” Cédric O told me. In other words, it’s a set of best practices that can be shared among Member States.

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Does Atlantic Canada have a blueprint for rural revival in the post-pandemic era?

TechCrunch

The Atlantic Canada story may provide a blueprint for other rural regions looking to take advantage of the decentralizing impact of COVID-19 to swap resource-based economies for the knowledge economy. Stephen Harper, the country’s prime minister from 2006 to 2015, famously quipped that the region suffered from “ a culture of defeatism.”

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