Last Friday, the Global Entrepreneurship Congress adjourned in Rio de Janeiro, ending a week of intense sessions that engaged over two thousand people from 130 countries in discussions around building stronger entrepreneurship ecosystems back home. While the Congress included Global Entrepreneurship Week host country delegations, investors and entrepreneurs, it opened last Monday with a new session for policymakers and researchers. The experiment was a success and ended with a commitment by organizers to make government policy a mainstay of the annual Congress in the future.
The “GEC Policy Summit: Start-up to Scale-up” on the opening day of the 2013 Global Entrepreneurship Congress was an unusual opening for a gathering that started as a grassroots movement. However, government sets the rules and incentives, and both top down policies and bottom up movements and networks are vital for entrepreneurs to flourish. A dominant theme of the GEC in Rio has been how they communicate and leverage each other’s strengths and create synergies.
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