All participants of the Belarusian Investment Forum as well as Belarusian entrepreneurs, journalists and other interested are invited to attend the fair of business projects fully ready for implementation.
Several dozen young Belarusian entrepreneurs applied for participation in Startup Day with their projects. Finalists were selected based on strategic directions of attracting investment to Belarus: digital technology (electronics, microelectronics, software including mobile applications, web-services and others), biotechnology and pharmaceutics, renewable energy sources and new materials, mechanical engineering, agriculture and food industry.
The fields were selected not at random. As noted by Dmitry Klevzhits, Director of the National Agency of Investment and Privatization of Belarus, the 2012 Belarusian Investment Forum focuses on attracting investment into innovative economy. “These fields create the highest added value, they do not require natural recourses whereas may involve Belarus’ strong scientific potential and a high level of education,” he noted.
According to Mr. Klevzhits, Belarusian government positions itself not only as an organizer of the event but “is prepared to develop the cooperation between the state and private sector investing into promising startup projects”. The best project is to be awarded a BYR300 million governmental grant for business development.
Startup movement that gained enormous popularity all over the world has been actively developing in Belarus for several years now. The most popular world startups are Facebook, YouTube, and VKontakte.
Here are some of business projects to be presented at Startup Day:
Say-n-ride
This is a mobile service enabling people to find fellow travelers ‘here-and-now’. Users interact with one another via an ordinary mobile phone. Those who need a ride voice their message on purpose of the trip and drivers listening to the messages call an apt co-traveler with one touch.
TurboSphere
Innovative micro-turbine transforms waste energy into electric energy. TurboSphere can produce energy at any manufacturing facilities with recovered heat emission (hot water or steam, combustion, accompanying or exhaust gas, heat from transformers).
Medicine fighting cancer
Setting up high technology enterprise producing a medicine for boron neutron capture cancer therapy. The medicine boasts higher efficiency compared to the ones used in medicine today.
To participate in the event please register.