Digital Frontier — A Way Forward

Europe faces a number of challenges that can be overcome only by an innovative, digitally savvy and entrepreneurial society. The digital frontier offers opportunities for innovation and introduction of new products for the global consumer, inclusion in education and workplace, and enables new ways of interacting, working and learning.

The Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region requires a new growth model to reach the European digital frontier, a model based on innovation and entrepreneurial spirit of the new millennial generation.

The process should begin with a serious policy discussion on innovative entrepreneurship in the key sectors of digital economy, small and medium enterprise (SME) access-to-finance gap, regional ecosystems to support women, youth, and social entrepreneurship and social enterprises (SE), infrastructure for the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) and other key sectors, and the conditions required to move these key sectors towards a digital economy. Region-wide partnerships should be initiated to drive these processes much further than what any one actor in the region could achieve within their country’s borders.