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For once global positive news: UK’s Enterprise Week now in 77 countries
This week is Enterprise Week (17-23 November 2008) that is going global. If you want to know what is going on in this worldwide celebration of enterprise you may want to visit ENTERPRISE WEEK and UNLEASHINGIDEAS. The organisation has asked Thenextwomen.com to write about it, and we are glad to do so. First a couple of facts and some highlights:
- Enterprise Week (17-23 November) has been a big success in the UK, with over half a million people attending over 5,000 events in 2007.
- This success has inspired an international event in 2008 - with 77 countries taking part - and 11,000 events with 5 million participants.
- Called Global Entrepreneurship Week it aims to create the successful businesses of tomorrow by generating ideas that tackle the challenging economic and social issues that we face today.
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- Global Entrepreneurship Week is supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, Ernst & Young and IBM and organised by Make Your Mark (founders of the UK’s Enterprise Week) and the Kauffman Foundation
- Make Your Mark is the campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising - to make their ideas happen. It was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations and endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.
Highlights:
- Monday 17 November will see in the UK a flagship event. Can Entrepreneurs Change The World? Numerous interesting speakers. Only to be viewed online
- The fourth annual Make Your Mark Challenge will kick start the week for students. This year the Challenge has been awarded the Inspire Mark by London 2012.
- Through the week Unleash It! will be encouraging people from all over the world to address challenges set by individuals and organisations worldwide.
- Ruth Badger (of the Apprentice) and Levi Roots (Dragon’s Den) will be among the speakers at the 4 Entrepreneurs event in Hertford on Monday 17.
- Tuesday 18 sees countries around the world holding ‘speednetworking’ events as part of Speednetwork the Globe. There will be several large speednetworking events with the London Eye Speednetwork being a highligh event. Similar events place globally, include the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland and on the steps of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
- Wednesday 19 will be Women’s Enterprise Day, a whole day dedicated to women entrepreneurs.
- The British Library will run two panel events; one to celebrate female inventors where an audience will hear stories from top women innovators and the other entitled Small Business, Global Ambition.
- A panel discussion will take place at Foyles bookshop in London on Wednesday evening. Among those in the hot seat will be Rachel Bridge, enterprise journalist and author.
- Rounding off Wednesday is the launch of Achievers International with two parallel events taking place at the German Embassy in London, and the British Embassy in Berlin on the same night linked by webcam.
- Social Enterprise Day, on Thursday 20, will see the launch of the One Water Project. Teams of young people in the UK will be challenged to come up with innovative and enterprising ways to sell One Water bottles. Profits made go to help those who need clean drinking water in Africa.
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