Press Release: Responsible entrepreneurship: Small enterprises, big values, tomorrow’s competitiveness

It is not often that teenagers from Estonia address major European events on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Looking at the link between entrepreneurship, values, and responsibility, the Responsible Entrepreneurship Exchange broke new ground in exploring the natural synergies between responsible business behaviour on the one hand and the dynamic world of entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises on the other. The tone was set by the managers of Volli, an Estonian student company that makes wallets from recycled fruit cartons and won the 2006 HP Responsible Business Award for young people. The event provides a platform for the launch of an important new European report entitled “Opportunity and Responsibility: how to get more small businesses to integrate social and environmental issues into what they do.”

European Commission: DG Communication: SPEECH/07/283 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/07/283&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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