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Doing business in Japan: opportunities for EU businesses in the biotech and digital innovation sectors
Doing business in Japan: opportunities for EU businesses in the biotech and digital innovation sectors

Webinar | 6 JUNE 2024 10:00 - 11:00 CET

Embracing Global Markets Webinar Series

The webinar series ‘Embracing global markets’ supports European small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups to innovate and expand in Asia, Africa and the Americas. The webinars are hosted by experts of various European Commission services and the 'Enterprise Europe Network', the world's largest business service provider.

Who should attend?

The webinar aims at European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), start-ups (ready to scale internationally), beneficiaries or holders of seals of excellence of the European Innovation Council, European clusters and cluster managers, business advisers of the Enterprise Europe Network and other European business support organisations, including all stakeholders of the ‘Friends of EEN’ initiative.

Objectives

This webinar will introduce business opportunities and internationalisation support for EU SMEs in the Japanese market.

It will provide strategic insights in the biotech and digital innovation sectors for EU businesses looking to enter the Japanese market, and will present testimonies of European biotech SMEs that have successfully entered the Japanese market.

Speakers

Manuel Hubert
  • EU Managing Director
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Manuel Hubert has worked for the European Commission on financial planning, employment policies, and has focused on international dimension of European industrial policies, in particular international supply chains partnerships and FTAs.
Daniel  Gralki
  • Consultant
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Daniel is working for Enterprise Europe Network Japan at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and has extensive experience in supporting SMEs and clusters looking for partnerships in the biotechnology sector.
Stijn Lambrecht
  • Manager
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Stijn is manager for Enterprise Europe Network Japan at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and focuses on supporting partnerships in the digital sector. He has a background in working with collaborative innovation and research projects.
Myrthe Bongers
  • Coordinator
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Myrthe is a coordinator for Enterprise Europe Network Japan at the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, where she supports connections between EU and Japanese companies.
Bogusz Ostrowski
  • Business Development Director
Selvita

Bogusz specialises in establishing Drug Discovery collaborations in Japan and Korea, with 10 years of experience as a Director of Business Development at Selvita.
Igor Kalinic
  • Head of sector
EISMEA

Igor possesses over 20 years of practical experience and academic knowledge in business internationalisation and acts as head of sector at EISMEA.
Benno Weissner
  • Consultant
ZENIT GmbH - Center of Innovation and Technology

Benno is head of Internationalisation at ZENIT GmbH - Center of Innovation and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia. He has been active in the Network since 2008 as the 2008-2024 National Contact Point for innovative ICT solutions and he is chairing the digital group of experts in the Network.
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