Having focused last month on efforts to further entrepreneurship abroad leading up to the global Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, this week I wanted to focus squarely on the United States ahead of next month's Global Entrepreneurship Week Partners Forum convened at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Who are some of the leading players in 2010 driving America's startup culture and how does Global Entrepreneurship Week each November enable them to combine voices in underscoring to the American people how entrepreneurs built America?
The U.S. of course has a very wide range of organizations promoting “entrepreneurship”. First, there are the established actors consistently doing great work in leading the charge. These range from, the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO)founded 20 years ago which now has over 7,000 members with a common desire to grow their businesses by sharing their experiences to Junior Achievement and DECA. The latter started more than 60 years ago with the goal of improving education and career opportunities for students interested in careers in marketing, management and entrepreneurship. It organizes various programs, including the Entrepreneur U for the purpose of informing students, administrators and parents about the opportunities for studying entrepreneurship beyond high school. This innovation has been helping bridge the gap between high school students interested in becoming entrepreneurs and postsecondary institutions that have viable entrepreneurship education options.
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Author: Jonathan Ortmans is president of the Public Forum Institute, a non-partisan organization dedicated to fostering dialogue on important policy issues. In this capacity, he leads the Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship, focused on public policies to promote entrepreneurship in the U.S. and around the world. In addition, he serves as a senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
