Building knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) as the next ecommerce export sector in Latin A
As a panelist in the Productive Transformation and the Knowledge Economy conferences organized by the Inter-America Development Bank and Argentina's Ministry of Production and Labor on 23-24 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen discussed the role and rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) in Latin America's exports in the past decade, the kinds of policies the region needs to pursue to enable both greater exports on KIBS, and to birth new KIB
Nextrade CEO keynotes Mercosur digital trade forum
Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen spoke in a forum organized by the Inter-American Development Bank to trade policymakers from the Mercosur region on 22 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, about new Nextrade research on optimizing the digital regulatory agenda in Mercosur for trade and development. See her paper here and her PPT here. The forum also engaged leadership from Google, Mercado Libre, and ConnectAmericas, as well as high-level officials form Mercosur region and Chile.
Nextrade research @ WTO Public Forum: Women-led firms do just as well, even outperform, men-led firm
Nextrade CEO spoke at the 2018 WTO Public Forum on 4 October about her new analysis for the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICSTD) on how women-led firms in Asia ad Africa use ecommerce, and how women's performance as ecommerce sellers compares to that of men-led firms. See her PPT here. The paper can be accessed here.
