This document proposes a pilot project called "The Business Machine" to facilitate business investments and knowledge transfer from Europe to Ethiopia. The project aims to identify promising Ethiopian business ideas and implement them through collaborative teams of motivated entrepreneurs from both countries. Profits and losses would be shared. 

A first pilot project will launch in 2010. A team selected from Ethiopia and Europe will develop project ideas during a one-week meeting in Ethiopia, then jointly implement the selected ideas. If successful, The Business Machine will become an ongoing platform for additional collaborative commercial projects, using risk capital from external sponsors. The principles of partnership, entrepreneurship, and intercultural exchange are intended to overcome dependency and bring mutual benefit.

Project Proposal: To Trigger Development in Ethiopia Through Commercial Projects PDF

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