“Moscow Entrepreneurs Association”, “Russian Agency for Small and Medium Business Support” and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation are organizing a Two Phase Festival consisting of the International Conference “Innovation & Investment: Efficient Basis for Competitiveness of Russian SMEs on Internal and International Markets” and the Business opportunities / investment matchmaking Forum “Russia - Europe: SMEs - Cooperation without Frontiers” which will be held on 9-11 November 2009, in Moscow.

The Conference will be focused on identifying and analysing SMEs problems as well as efficiency of the State support to the sector in terms of investment attraction, innovation development and entering foreign markets. It will also determine further support measures to develop and increase SMEs competitiveness on internal and international markets.

The Forum will be devoted to bilateral negotiations between Russian industrial SMEs in different sectors of activities (production, R&D, services) with business partnership proposals, including investment projects, and willing to identify potential business partners in Europe, and European SMEs which would have shown interest with regard to Russian business proposals and projects or which, in their return, are offering cooperation to Russian SMEs.

The aim of the Business Forum is to help Russian and European small and medium companies in recognizing opportunities provided by Cross-Border Cooperation and to utilise them by starting or developing international business relationships.

For more details, please visit the Moscow Entrepreneurs Association web-site.