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InCaS Workshop on
Small and Medium Enterprises and the Financial Markets
27 October 2008
This workshop was organized in
BOX at LSE by the London Multimedia Lab. There were twenty four
participants: influencers and practitioners, drawn from the
Financial Markets, Venture Capital and Regulation
communities, joined with members of the InCaS project team
to discuss key issues together.
The project “Intellectual Capital Statement –
Made in Europe” (InCaS) aims at:
Strengthening the competitiveness and
innovation potential of European SMEs by activating their
intellectual capital systematically
Establishment of the Intellectual Capital Statement (ICS)
as an important and valuable management tool in a knowledge
driven economy.
. Consolidation of single national approaches on
Intellectual Capital Statements on the European
level
The Financial Market and
Venture Capital Communities are key players in this
enterprise, as they can be a major source of investment.
But the investment opportunities need to be better
understood and effectively realised as a result of better
practices involving European SMEs.
The workshop commenced with presentations from Leif
Edvinson and Markus Will on Valuation of Intellectual
Capital, followed by “spark sessions”, where two experts
and key players from different backgrounds initiate debate
on a key issue which is then extended to all the
participants who would like to get involved.
The first spark session was on contrasting models on
the value of enterprises, sparked by debate between
Charles Liasidis and Bill Mayon-White, the second spark
session was on issues in obtaining finance for
enterprises, sparked by debate between Marcelo Ramella
and Mary Anne Cordeiro. This was followed by a film:
Showing value: the case of SIDASA's Engineering
Business Unit, introduced by Roger Pou, the Director
of this Spanish SME.
Workshop participants then had the opportunity to identify
a variety of issues that they would like to be addressed in
”fast forward" sessions in 3 parallel breakout
groups. Report-outs from the groups were made in the
concluding plenary where some exciting possibilities
emerged.
Read the Financial
Markets Workshop Report