Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008

Global Entrepreneurship Week

Vision -

For one week, millions of young people around the world
will join a growing movement to generate new ideas and
to seek better ways of doing things. Dozens of countries
are coming together for the first time to host Global
Entrepreneurship Week, a global initiative to inspire
young people to embrace innovation, imagination and
creativity. To think big. To turn their ideas into reality. To
make their mark.

From November 17 - 23, 2008, Global Entrepreneurship
Week will connect young people everywhere through
local, national and global activities designed to help them
explore their potential as self-starters and innovators.
Students, educators, entrepreneurs, business leaders,
employees, non-profit leaders, government officials and many others will participate in a range of activities -
online and face-to-face - to harness the energy of
social networking, to connect people taking action in
their local and global communities and to celebrate
entrepreneurship across the globe.

Global Entrepreneurship Week will blend into the fabric
of everyday life, engaging young people in school, at
home, on the web and at work. Through this initiative,
the next generation of entrepreneurs will be inspired
and emerge. In doing so, they will begin to acquire the
knowledge, skills, networks and values needed to grow
innovative, sustainable enterprises that have a positive
impact on their lives and the lives of those around them.

Global Entrepreneurship Week will seek to:

Inspire:

Introduce the notion of enterprising behavior to as many
young people under the age of 30 who otherwise might
no have considered it as a path in their life

Connect:

Network young people across national boundaries in a
global effort to find new ideas at the intersection of
cultures and disciplines

Inform:

Demonstrate that the drive to nurture enterprising talent
needs business, education, government, voluntary or-
ganizations and the media to work together - no single
sector or organization working in isolation can create
opportunities on this ambitious scale

Mentor:

Enlist active and inspirational entrepreneurs around
the world to coach and mentor the next generation of
enterprise talent as they pursue their entrepreneurial
dreams

Engage:

To inform opinion leaders and policy makers that
entrepreneurship is central to a nation’s economic
health and culture and to provide different nations with
the opportunity to learn from each other on entrepre-
neurial policy and practice.

The Global Entrepreneurship Week ‘compass’ represents the
intersections of ideas, cultures, information, people and places.
The array of vibrant colours that radiate out through the circular
band give a sense of diversity, variety and optimism. The full colour
spectrum also symbolizes the inclusive international reach of
Global Entrepreneurship Week.