Costa Rica’s Catch Up
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
May 14, 2012
Last November, Costa Rica formally joined Global Entrepreneurship Week. The response surprised its local champions. Costa Rica´s host, Yo Emprendedor, managed to get strong support from 28 key partners from across the private, public, NGO and education sectors—including the Mi...
Globally Minded Lithuanian Startups Get Top Government Help
Posted by Mark Marich (GEW global)
Apr 30, 2012
While the Baltic countries are small compared to their EU partners, they are said to have an outsized role in generating new start-ups, particularly through their big ideas in the tech sector. Today, we look at Lithuania, which has been campaigning aggressively through Global Ent...
Liverpool's Legacy
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Mar 19, 2012
I have just returned today from the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) in Liverpool where a weeklong festival of entrepreneurship floated powerful ideas about everything from seeding startup communities to smarter national top-down policies. This week I take a quick look at...
GEW Spotlights High-growth Women’s Entrepreneurship
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Jan 04, 2012
All of us at GEW Global are so proud of all the organizers behind Startup Weekend. As several blog posts on this site have described, GEW 2011 was an excellent year for Startup Weekend’s around the world. Beyond all the great energy and startups coming out of this effort, its...
Japan: Social Innovation and a New Global Outlook
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 20, 2011
My second to last stop for Global Entrepreneurship Week in Japan was humbling. To see this society holding their head high after earthquake, tsunami and the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl--not to mention political inertia and economic gloom, was inspiring. You cannot ...
A Stop in Singapore
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 19, 2011
Singapore always welcomes the visitor with an awe inspiring infrastructure for entrepreneurship. I arrived here today mostly for media interviews and to attend the Shell LiveWIRE Awards. Over and above the physical infrastructure, Singapore´s entrepreneurial atmosphere offers...
Taipei’s Global Outlook in Seeding It’s Next Wave of Startups
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 18, 2011
I am here in Taipei at the invitation of Yen-Shiang Shih, Minister of Economic Affairs, to give the keynote address at the International Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Incubation Forum, one of the signature events of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Keeping Capitalism Messy in Malaysia
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 16, 2011
Malaysia transformed itself from a producer of raw materials in the 1970s into an upper-middle income country with a multi-sector economy by the late 1990s. The 1997 crisis significantly challenged this technology-exporting country, but it has since successfully sparked two m...
A Quick Look at Oman
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 15, 2011
Before departing from the Middle East for Asia, as promised, today I look at Global Entrepreneurship Week in Oman and find a nation with much to offer in realizing the goal of a localized startup ecosystem for those indigenous to the region.
A Report from Abu Dhabi
Posted by Jonathan Ortmans
Nov 14, 2011
On the panel I led yesterday for opening day of Global Entrepreneurship Week here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a student question prompted experts to suggest that there is indeed a shortening window for this part of the world to diversify its economy away from oil, finan...
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