An interesting invitation arrived overnight. Microsoft is organising Europe's 4th Entrepreneurship Day in Brussels on 11th June. Microsoft's vision for engagement in Europe is clear.
'The investor community remains a critical component of the European Innovation Ecosystem and together we aim to establish Europe as a major innovation cluster that parallels that in Silicon Valley.
We’re keen for you to understand how Microsoft programs and initiatives are helping to build better Education solutions, see some examples of R&D and Academic partnerships, incubation and funding solutions – such as the Start-up Accelerator, Imagine Cup and Entrepreneurship Forum.'
It's a tad far for me to travel for one day from Tauranga. However the invitation does reinforce the globalisation of Pingar.
Rod Drury recently posted a blog here in NZ on 'If I was in Charge of Microsoft'. The posting included some good stuff. There is however a catch. One the problems I find being based in NZ is that so many Microsoft programs exist offshore that do not appear to exist in godszone.
The agenda for the Brussels meeting is testament to that. I do not pretend to understand Microsoft's own global Ecosystem of internal organisation. It does seem to me though that NZ-based Microsoft developers are sometimes disadvantaged if they cannot engage with all of Microsoft Corp's global programs.
I believe NZ Microsoft developers punch above their weight in terms of technology development. They face additional commercialisation challenges though in terms of domestic market size and distance to the global market. Direct access to more of Microsoft's global programs would help.
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