'A Manifesto for Change and Empowerment in the Digital Age' is proposing concrete ways to leverage the strength of the digital single market for European entrepreneurs' global success.
Welcoming the Scaleup Manifesto Günther H. Oettinger, Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, said:
"Europe has fantastic entrepreneurs – with great imagination and tremendous technical skills. We need to come together around a common agenda which puts the strength of the digital single market behind our entrepreneurs for global success. This is a powerful beginning. I look forward to working with European startups and scale ups to drive progress in the weeks, months and years ahead.”
The manifesto is a response to the recent challenge issued by the Commissioner to stakeholders at CeBIT in March 2016 to inform him on what could be better done to help startups scale up in Europe, and a provide a way to accomplish it together.
This comprehensive set of recommendations wants to make Europe not just the best place in the world to start a business, but the best place to grow one to scale as well.
This is why the European Commission welcomes and supports this Scaleup Europe movement, congratulates its leaders for jointly succeeding in bringing forward such an insightful document and will ensure a targeted policy response.
The manifesto is divided in six chapters, each of them built around an action line and contains a list of concrete recommendations. In total, there are 49 actions we invite you to discover and to sign.
Europe needs to create a better, more fertile environment where our brilliant, creative entrepreneurs can build global champions, create jobs, develop the “next big thing” and deliver prosperity to our society in years to come.
The movement was initiated by Startup Europe's H2020 project European Digital Forum, a first-of-its kind think tank dedicated to empowering tech entrepreneurs and growing Europe’s digital economy.