Last year, President Obama announced his intention for a Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, which will take place April 26 and 27 this year. (Photo: BusinessWeek)
The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said that “the reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
By this measure, some of today’s leading entrepreneurs are distinctly unreasonable and democratic and economic progress depends on them. Recognizing this, the Obama administration is holding a Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship on April 26-27 in Washington, DC, building on his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo last summer in which he promised “to identify how [America] can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world.”
