The 100 Start-ups with best growth potential
100 best business plans from the most innovative companies in the world have been selected to compete in the Global Entrepreneurship Competition, the pioneering initiative bringing together entrepreneurs and investors from around the world at the World Innovation Congress HiT Barcelona.
The World Nominating Committee, formed by 26 institutions worldwide, selected an initial list of these early-stages / business plans and with further analysis nominated the 24 finalists who, along with the three winners of the Spanish tournaments Premio Emprendedor XXI organised by la Caixa and the winner of the Catalan Fòrum d’Inversió by ACC1O will compete in the finals of the Global Entrepreneurship Competition.
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Organisation |
Country |
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Fondaçao Gatello Vargas |
Brazil |
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Politehnica of Bucharest |
Bulgaria / Greece |
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Intel Corp. / University St Kliment Ohridsk of Sofia |
Bulgaria / Poland |
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CEIBS China Europe International Business School |
China |
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Tsinghua University |
China |
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Hong Kong Science & Technology Park |
China/Hong Kong |
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TEHNOPOL Tallinn Technology Park |
Estonia |
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INSEAD Business School |
France |
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Technical University of Munich |
Germany |
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NSTEDB, National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board |
India |
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AREA Science Park Trieste |
Italy |
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University of Tokyo |
Japan |
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EGADE del Tecnológico de Monterrey |
Mexico |
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Zernike Institute Advanced Materials, U of Groningen |
Netherlands |
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ESAN Lima-Perú |
Peru |
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AUDAX/ISCTE Lisbon University Institute |
Portugal |
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State University of Management Moscow |
Russia |
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National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
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Economic and Social Development and Tourism Gov. |
South Africa |
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ACC1Ó |
Spain |
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Emprededor XXI La Caixa |
Spain |
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Thammasat Business School |
Thailand |
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Manchester Science Park |
UK |
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Cambridge University Business School |
UK |
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MIT |
USA |
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University of Berkeley |
USA |
The finals of this international competition will be on the 18th of June at HiT Barcelona!





Julio 15th, 2009 at 19:13
Die Sichtweise der Dinge kann grundlegend immer ge
Julio 31st, 2009 at 17:43
[...] tournament that called for start-ups from around the world with high future growth projections, in total 28 projects from 21 countries out of 10,000 initial submissions. This was a pioneering initiative bringing together entrepreneurs and investors from around the [...]
Octubre 2nd, 2009 at 6:03
We have the same opinion.
Marzo 10th, 2010 at 16:57
It’s a wonderful initiative!