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The International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference is next week, 2-4 Sept. at Heriot-Watt. Hilary Singer, Launch.ed intern and StartupCafe BFF, shares the details with us here:

The Scottish Institute for Enterprise is helping to organise the event. They’re looking for volunteers to help staff the conference. Volunteers would get free food and drink throughout the day, and would get to hear some cool speakers/go to cool workshops.

Some of the sessions include “Ethical Dilemmas for the Entrepreneur” and “Four Ways to Find Enterprising Ideas”. You can see the full schedule here. This is a way to get into the event for free (though there will be some work involved!).

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We were so impressed by our guest blogger Mark Sutherland, that we asked him to stick around for a little while. Mark will be our interim blogger for the next 8 weeks, while I take a bit of a backseat in order to make the final push to finish writing up (and before you ask … don’t 😉 )

Mark agreed to be our victim interviewee this week for our 60 second interview. Please welcome him to the team!

Better Place is best known for its marketing effort on the deployment of an infrastructure to make electric vehicles viable. Their solution is simple: get car manufacturers to sell electric cars on a large scale, and build a network of battery swapping stations spread across the country. This removes the main technological limitation batteries have compared to combustion engines on gas tanks: range.

Renault-Nissan will be starting the production of their first non-prototype electric vehicle from 2011. The three vehicle models will be sold in Israel and Denmark. According to Wikipedia, Israel is 22,000 km2, whilst Denmark is 43,000 km2, and Scotland is 79,000 km2. One of Better Place’s goals is to try to recharge batteries with as much renewable energy as possible, making electric vehicles much cleaner than their gas siblings. Continue Reading »