What is Global Entrepreneurship Week?
Global Entrepreneurship Week – November 17 – 23, 2008 – is an initiative to inspire young people everywhere to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. In 2007, the Kauffman Foundation sponsored Entrepreneurship Week USA which had 1,300 partners planning 3,700 activities that engaged nearly half a million people. In the UK, the Make Your Mark campaign has enjoyed similar success with Enterprise Week since 2003. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Carl Schramm of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced plans to make the Week global last November in London. This November, tens of thousands of partner organizations will conduct countless activities—from simple speeches to comprehensive competitions—designed to inspire, connect, inform, mentor and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs.More than seventy-five countries are carrying the banner of Global Entrepreneurship Week, including: Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa and
