National
Oct 22, 2010
Here at GEW we are constantly on the lookout for new ways to bring entrepreneurs together. That’s why we’re such big fans of Dialogue Café. Based on a vision of the café as a breeding ground for great debates and grand designs, Dialogue Café uses state-of-the-art telepresence video conferencing...
Oct 20, 2010
As Global Entrepreneurship Week gets ever-closer, the momentum for the campaign is now building quickly. The past month alone has seen a flurry of official launch events around the world announcing local plans and highlights. Ghana, Ecuador and New Zealand are the latest countries to tout...
Oct 19, 2010
24 competitors from around the globe have made it through to the grand final of GEW Official Activity Your Big Year in Liverpool. YBY is an innovative competition designed to encourage global citizenship and social responsibility through enterprise, as well as to raise money for a range of global...
Oct 18, 2010
The China we knew as the enormous economy largely fueled by cheap labor and inexpensive manufacturing has changed. Though happening slowly compared to its potential, China is becoming one of the most innovative economies on the planet and the birthplace of entrepreneurs like Robin Li, CEO of Baidu...
Oct 15, 2010
Endeavor Brazil have launched a new online video challenge for Global Entrepreneurship Week this year. Entrants will be invited to record a thirty second video in answer to the question, “What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?” Participants are invited to interpret the question as broadly and as...
National
Oct 13, 2010
While the global financial crisis impacted almost all new entrepreneurs, it began in developed countries and hit their entrepreneurs harder. As a result, in richer countries, new business creation dropped sharply amid the crisis. In contrast, new business registrations in many low-income countries...
Bermuda (British Overseas Territory)
Oct 13, 2010
The Monday of Global Entrepreneurship Week / Bermuda has been announced as eMonday – a day designed to promote e-commerce and highlight the role that technology plays in entrepreneurship. Michael Scott, the Bermudan Minister of Energy, Telecommunications and E-commerce, officially announced the...
National
Oct 11, 2010
While most of us committed to empowering the Global Entrepreneurship Week movement do not need hard data to motivate us each morning, a sober look at the data against which we might ultimately measure our impact is clearly prudent. We know young businesses in the United States for example,...
China, France, Jordan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States of America
Oct 11, 2010
This November promises both a deeper and wider Global Entrepreneurship Week campaign -- reaching more countries and new audiences. In just three short years, GEW has established a solid and ongoing presence in 100 countries -- and counting. During the same time period, more than 10 million people...
