Honduras is 75th country to sign up to inaugural Global Entrepreneurship Week -
Support for the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Week in November this year has received another boost today with Honduras becoming the 75th country to get officially involved.
Venezuela, Lebanon, Barbados, Egypt, Lithuania, and Serbia have also signed up to take part within the last fortnight.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is an international celebration of enterprise based on the UK’s highly successful Enterprise Week model and was announced last year by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
It was founded by the Make Your Mark campaign, which runs Enterprise Week in the UK, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in the US. They want the initiative to inspire millions of 14 to 30-year-olds across the globe to join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people and to create solutions for some of the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, such as poverty and climate change.
Harry Rich, Chief Executive of Make Your Mark, said: “Enterprise is not a zero-sum game. One country’s success does not deprive other countries in the long-term. The sharing of ideas between entrepreneurs and innovators across the globe is our best hope in tackling the major global challenges common to all nations.”
Business Secretary John Hutton said: “Building an enterprise culture and Global Entrepreneurship Week are important parts of the Government’s enterprise strategy and we should feel proud that the UK will be leading the world in this major celebration of enterprise this November. It is enormously exciting to see the Enterprise Week model that has worked so well in this country, begin to take hold globally. We want this ambitious initiative to connect thousands of successful young business leaders here with their counterparts internationally to spark off new ideas, share information and develop opportunities.”
From Argentina to Australia, Kyrgyzstan to Kenya, businesses, chambers of commerce and universities have committed to running networking events to connect their best businessmen and women with budding young entrepreneurs and to showcasing the best of their entrepreneurial talent. Major economic power-houses of the developed world will join with developing countries to give their young people the opportunity to consider the most serious challenges the world is facing and to share their ideas about how enterprise can be harnessed to address them.
Though global in scope, the initiative will be run by host organisations operating on the ground in each country and will reflect local customs and enterprise culture. The host organisation in Honduras is Junior Achievement International which aims to educate and inspire new generations about the value of free enterprise as a means of improving quality of life.
Global Entrepreneurship Week runs from 17th to 23rd November with three themed days: -Speednetwork the Globe Day on Tuesday 18th,
-Women's Entrepreneurship Day on Wednesday 19th and
-Clean and Green Day (Social Enterprise Day in the UK) on Thursday 20th.
Host organisations are busy planning competitions in schools, awards ceremonies and networking events for each day as well high-profile launch activities.
Highlights include:
• a roundtable discussion with business leaders about entrepreneurship in Mexico
• a four-day conference held by the US Russia Center for Entrepreneurship and the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation in St. Petersburg
• the Netherlands will hold a launch event on the trading floor of sponsor NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam
• Belgium will host the Creativity World Forum in Antwerp at which the actor John Cleese and Apple’s Steve Wozniak are speaking
• in the United States the US Inventors Hall of Fame will hold the final for their Collegiate Inventors Competition in Kansas City
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For more press information, please contact Anya Matthews, Colman Getty, on 0207 631 2666 or anya@colmangetty.co.uk
Notes for editors
Enterprise Week (17-23 November) is a national celebration of enterprise with thousands of events and activities happening across the UK. www.enterpriseweek.org.uk
Enterprise Week 2008 is part of the first-ever Global Entrepreneurship Week, an international celebration of enterprise based on the UK’s highly successful model.
It will run in more than 70 countries and inspire millions of 14 to 30-year-olds across the globe to join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people and to create solutions for some of the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems, such as poverty and climate change. www.unleashingideas.org
It is sponsored by NYSE Euronext, Ernst & Young and IBM and organised by Make Your Mark www.makeyourmark.org.uk (founders of the UK’s Enterprise Week) and the Kauffman Foundation (founders of Entrepreneurship Week in the US) www.kauffman.org
The full list of 75 countries signed up to Global Entrepeneurship Week is:
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Bermuda
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Honduras
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Lithuania
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Mali
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Serbia
Singapore
Slovakia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Turkey
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Vietnam
Zambia
Make Your Mark is the campaign to release the UK’s enterprise potential. It was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations – the British Chambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors. It is also supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. www.makeyourmark.org.uk
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