I am happy to report that in its third year, Global Entrepreneurship Week grew by leaps and bounds. As more countries take advantage of this global movement, more minds are pursuing their entrepreneurial dreams. GEW has not just inspired students looking for a way to reach their goals, but the leaders of nations who were inspired in their efforts to boost growth by the sheer energy of the millions of participants in GEW activities during the past two weeks. In case you haven’t been following, here are a couple of anecdotes from this year’s Week, and the reaction it produced among some of the world’s leaders.
GEW/Germany, “Gründerwoche,” alone tripled its impact with over 1,200 events and 650 partners through the year in 2010. The Week had the Ministry of Economy and Technology as the country’s GEW official coordinator. Many other countries joined the global campaign for this first time this year, like El Salvador. Even countries where entrepreneurship is not deep-rooted in society and have not mustered its officials’ support have created activities to unleash its people’s entrepreneurial potential and wake up their governments to their power to drive the economy.
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Author: Jonathan Ortmans
