It is an important week for entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Here
in Dubai, two important global summits will be convened by His
Excellency, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, United Arab Emirates
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and Carl Schramm,
President of the Kauffman Foundation: The HCT Global Entrepreneurship
2010 Conference (E2010)
and the Kauffman Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress which I
will emcee.
There is no doubt about it. The promotion of
entrepreneurship as the key economic driver is a burgeoning global
phenomenon. These two summits, which run parallel to each other, bring
together impressive leaders in entrepreneurship from nearly 100
nations. Later today, we will be joined here in the UAE by a long list
of dignitaries from the Prime Minister of Georgia to the Duchess of
York, from prominent academics to high growth startup entrepreneurs such
as Tom Scott, who founded Nantucket Nectars. Also arriving here today
are the new movement leaders from nearly every one of the 88 nations
participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week. Entrepreneurship is no longer a side-show at the circus. It is increasingly being examined as the engine of new growth around the world.
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Author: Jonathan Ortmans
