Daring entrepreneurs inject a shot of realism at Cyprus commerce and industry
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism demonstrates high appreciation for events that promote and develop entrepreneurship in Cyprus and admits to its incapacity to stimulate young entrepreneurial minds.
It is without a doubt the we would like to congratulate the winners of the CyEC2010 awards - Bright Future, Cynergy, InteliPhone and especially the organizers from the Science and Technology community, with special emphasis on Professor Skevos Evripidou's efforts, for engaging young engineers, technicians, scientific and academics, providing them with a window of opportunity that challenges them to:
Dare to imagine that your ideas for high tech products and services can be converted into a Successful High Tech Company.
Undoubtedly we also recognize the valuable insights extracted from the words of Minister Paschalides speech, at the award ceremony,
"Today, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial innovation constitute the
most fundamental components of the most competitive economies, with the
main requirement for success being the quality and calibre of human
resource. Cyprus has a wealth of creative people that we can build on".
Encouraging words, if it wasn't for the recognized difficulty of how to take advantage of this human resource, as if it we were an 'ore' from which to extract wealth.
Mr. Paschalides went on to identify that the main problem of this source of wealth, was the need of stimulation and, "that entrepreneurial young mindsets was not being encouraged by a culture friendlier to start-ups, to entrepreneurship and towards the small and medium size enterprises."
Subsequently, the minister noted that his maximum priority at the Ministry, of Commerce was the building the Science Technology Park in the area of Pentakomo. A resource center that will certainly serve well the aspirations of young scientists, academia and enterprises to use technology and research for progressing scientific knowledge.
But what exactly does that have to do with entrepreneurship?
More on the official Speech at the Entrepreneurial Award Ceremony can be found here at the Press and Information Office - Press Releases