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Webex
13:30-15:00 CET

Format

online

Date

Thursday, December 9, 2021

In cooperation with

SUERF BAFFI Bocconi E-Lecture on SME Financing: Key findings from the EIF’s new “European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021.

Topics will include:
o SME access to finance going forward
o European private equity market – Where do we stand, what way forward
o SME Green finance and investment – Where do we stand, what way forward

EIF Research and Market Analysis, Working Paper 2021/75The European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021 (pdf)

SUERF Policy Note, No 258: “The importance of Private Equity and Venture Capital financing for Greentech companies in Europe”
by Helmut Kraemer-Eis, Antonia Botsari, Salome Gvetadze, Frank Lang and Wouter Torfs, EIF

Program

Time
Thursday, 9 December 2021
13:30
Key findings from the EIF’s new "European Small Business Finance Outlook 2021"
Welcome and moderation by Ernest Gnan, OeNB I SUERF

The importance of Private Equity and Venture Capital financing for Greentech companies in Europe

Helmut Krämer-Eis, Frank Lang and Wouter Torfs, European Investment Fund (EIF) Presentation (pdf)
14:00
Panel Discussion

Scale up is the issue, not start up

Rudy Aernoudt, European Commission presentation

SMEs in COVID times: financial conditions, public support and hints on productivity

Lilas Demmou, OECD Presentation (pdf)

The Green Transformation: SMEs, Venture Capital and Investments

Fritzi Köhler-Geib, KfW Presentation (pdf)
15:00
End