MIPIM: Economic developers put on a brave face amid uncertainty

 

Another edition of the annual MIPIM international real estate forum has taken place and the fDi editorial team was there in force. Jacopo Dettoni, Courtney Fingar and Sebastian Shehadi discuss how the large UK delegation carried on investment promotion efforts while a daily stream of Brexit news broke back home, how Industry 4.0 is making manufacturing sexy again, and what business, economic and political risks still lie on the horizon. 

The podcast features interviews with: 

  • Stefan Schostok, mayor of Hannover;
  • Pere Navarro, special state delegate at Barcelona’s free trade zone (Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona;
  • Khaled Abbas, Egypt’s deputy minister of housing for national projects.
 
 

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