Global Entrepreneurship Week Congress

Global Entrepreneurship Week Congress
The Global Entrepreneurship Week Congress in Dubai. (Photo: Eric Hontz)

Last week the Kauffman Foundation and the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai, UAE, sponsored the Global Entrepreneurship Week Congress.  The meeting brought together over 100 representatives from 80 countries gathered to regroup and focus after a very successful second Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2009. The week long, world wide festivities in 2009 consisted of 25,000 entrepreneurship events with millions of participants.

With the help of events like Global Entrepreneurship Week, policymakers and citizens are more focused than ever on the prospect for wealth creation and employment that are inherent in an environment conducive to entrepreneurship.  Rather than relying on FDI or the presence of a few (highly mobile) multinational corporations, more nations are turning to their own people and empowering them to help themselves out of poverty.

While entrepreneurship is not a panacea for the world’s problems it is a vital first step towards freer, more inclusive markets that will hold their governments accountable for the protection of property and equal treatment under the rule of law.

Published Date: March 25, 2010