China – a Threat or an Opportunity?

Erik Spiekermann at the Hasso Plattner Ventures 6th Forum on Entrepreneurship

China in the year 2010 is still hard to grasp. Motor of the global economy with a single market of a billion customers? Global source for cheap workforce and fresh intelligence? Or smart copycats without business ethics in what is at its base a totalitarian system? 

At the 6th Forum on Entrepreneurship on June 30, the Hasso Plattner Ventures offered bewildering insights from businessmen and scientists covering aspects like climate change, urbanization or cultural exchange. Besides Matthias Platzeck, Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg and John Farnworth, World Champion Football Freestyler, Erik Spiekermann explained “China through designers eyes”.