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6th Annual LA BAULE - WIC


    « BRAINPOWER IN EUROPE,THE

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    Pierre Guenant

    Patrick Gounelle

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    Co-Chairman of Europe+ Foundation

    Co-Chairman of Europe+ Foundation

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    Chairman of La Baule-WIC

    CEO of Ernst & Young in France and Southern Europe

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    present the highlights of the upcoming"6th Annual

    World Investment Conference" (WIC)to be held June

    4, 5 and 6 in La Baule

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    Brainpower, making Europe more attractive and competitive
    The presentations and debates of the 6th World

    Investment Conference will revolve around the identification, analysis

    and promotion of the innovative capabilities vested in Europe´s

    industrial and service sectors.
    The participants will try to understand why the materialization of an

    idea, concept, or process into a high value-added product or service has

    not found a market through profitable and viable industrial application.
    This analytical approach, reinforced by the findings of the Ernst &

    Young European Attractiveness Survey, will allow for better

    determination of the stakes, on a global level, while putting in

    perspective the means for brainpower to boost growth.
    WIC 2008 will also host 3 related conferences:
    1st Transatlantic Green Platform: June 5, 2008This platform

    for transatlantic dialogue emerged out of the WIC 2007 debates to

    reinforce the cooperation, partnership, and dynamics of research

    innovation, and business opportunities between main actors in

    environmental technologies. With the impetus of the European Union

    and two American states, California and Texas, the platform will bring

    together some 150 experts to discuss: "How to

    develop R&D that favours renewable energies?" The major European energy groups responded to the call and some 50

    de legates from Texas and California will take part in the delegation

    coordinated by the University of Sacramento.
    2nd California Technology Showcase: June 5, 2008A year

    after the first edition that was held in 2007, bringing together 36

    high-tech businesses from Silicon Valley, more than half have to this

    day solidified their presence in the European market. In 2008, organizers

    of the CTS have already recruited 50 new Californian technological

    jewels in search of European partners. The objective of this

    initiative is to demonstrate Europe´s ability

    to attract businesses with high added tech value, from California today

    but as of next year, also convince Japanese, Indian, Chinese and Korean

    start-ups that Europe has become a marketplace for global innovation

    thanks to high consumption of technology.
    3rd Euromed Investment Conference: June 5, 2008For the

    third consecutive year, the "Euromed

    Investment Conference" will reinforce

    Euro- Mediterranean investment partnerships. This year the debates will

    revolve around the major investment-driving projects. Sovereign wealth

    funds from the Gulf have been invited to EIC for the first time. The

    3rd EIC conference will represent an important step in the Barcelona

    process, just 5 weeks before the European Heads of State meet, and

    at which the project for a Mediterranean Union, carried by the French

    Presidency of the EU, will be presented.
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    The Europe+ Foundation is an independent platform that supplies

    analytical tools and governance guidance to promote the attractiveness

    and competitiveness of the European Union, its Member States and

    regions. The Foundation´s aim is to take the

    conclusions of WIC working groups further and ensure follow-up of

    recommendations addressed to the European Commission and the European

    Parliament, as well as to governments and Member States. "Europe+

    is a dynamic platform founded on the exchange of best practices, the

    diversity of its members, the multiplicity of its experiences and

    publicprivate partnership. We are neither a lobby associated with

    particular interest groups, nor a traditional think tank working on

    general or purely theoretical positions," remind the two Co-Chairmen of the Foundation. The highlevel think tank

    of Europe+ gathers more than a hundred international personalities drawn

    from the world of business, government and academia.