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(FLTR) Tatu Koljonen, Henna Virkkunen, Willem Jonker, Nils Torvalds

(FLTR) Tatu Koljonen, Henna Virkkunen, Willem Jonker, Nils Torvalds

On Thursday September 17, EIT Digital presents views on and solutions for entrepreneurship and innovation to the European Parliament.

European societal and economic success is closely tied with its achievements in digital economy - a link not always clearly understood and hence not resourced adequately.

Invited by Mr. Nils Torvalds and Ms. Henna Virkkunen, both Members of European Parliament (MEP), EIT Digital will explain to the Parliament’s interested groups and committees what the buzzwords "innovation" and "entrepreneurship" really mean.

Willem Jonker, CEO EIT Digital joined by Tatu Koljonen, Node Director EIT Digital Finland will share views and thoughts on how digitalization is changing the way of doing business - in specific on new hyper-scalable business logic.

In fact digitalization is not only changing the future of jobs, so-called "uberization of work" - but also changing the ways of distributing wealth. What is the EU role in developing digital skills? How can EU stimulate digital entrepreneurship and drive digital innovation? These and other topics are discussed in today’s meeting.

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