NCG to present at this seminar intended to create a high level international forum. Policy makers and academic researchers may address contemporary issues in design and implementation of policies aimed at improving the national environments for entrepreneurial activity in key emerging enterprise and knowledge sectors.

The following three themes will be addressed:
1)The Design of National Taxation Environments to Promote the Financing of Entrepreneurial Businesses.
Many states recognise that their taxation systems have a strong impact on the incentivising of entrepreneurial activity. This session will consider the impact of such measures and discuss contemporary policy programmes and their outcomes by utilizing the experience of participants.

2)Co-financing Programs using Public Money via Private Investor Intermediaries.
Co-financing initiatives have become an important element of public policy seeking to improve sources of early-stage entrepreneurial finance. This session will seek to identify best practice measures to facilitate improved programme design and effectiveness.

3)The Role of Universities in National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Systems.
Policy makers wish to see universities as the producers of (world-class) new knowledge but also as the seed bed for the commercialization of such knowledge through the creation of new enterprises. This session will focus on the inherent conflicts emerging from this challenge and will discuss approaches towards their resolution. This session will devote special attention to the links between IP policy and the equity-based financing of university spin-outs.