Tomorrow, roughly 100 million Americans will cast their vote for one of two men who have stressed the importance of entrepreneurs and of course, small business to the country—and claimed to be the best candidate to empower them. Meanwhile, one week from today, policymakers, researchers and millions of nascent entrepreneurs in 130 countries will be taking matters into their own hands through a collection of 40,000 events, activities and competitions during Global Entrepreneurship Week.
This is the fifth year for the global initiative and in years past, I have had the fortune of travelling to a number of countries to witness some of these activities first-hand. Last year, I joined Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry Teo Ser Luck at a ceremony to recognize budding young student entrepreneurs—and discuss the commercialization efforts of the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. Other stops included the launches of GEW in Abu Dhabi and Germany, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Malaysia and Oman. Previous years, I have focused more on activities and efforts in Africa, Oceania and South America.
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