In 2014 GEW Global is rolling out a slate of new partnerships and initiatives:
- A collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Kauffman Foundation is bringing a new Global Entrepreneurship Library serving as an international portal of knowledge and resources to enable entrepreneurial success.
- A new GEW Mindset Project, launched in partnership with the Entrepreneur Learning Initiative, will engage students around the world in a learning program about the fundamental aspects of an entrepreneurial mindset.
- The GEW Startup Nations network made up of public sector-led efforts to promote smarter policymaking and programs on behalf of startups will come together at a Startup Nations Summit in Korea during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2014.
- The inaugural meeting of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Network gets underway at the GEC in Moscow in its work to align efforts among the world’s major funders of entrepreneurship research in order to better inform policymakers and funders of entrepreneurial support programs.
• A GEW Survey to collect data from founders across GEW’s “Global Entrepreneurship Network” (GEN) about the state of their entrepreneurial ecosystem and what policymakers can do to improve it.
• A new partnership with Startup Genome to map startup ecosystems and their weaknesses within the GEW community.
• The launch of a Global Creativity Coalition and an annual summit during the GEC to further engage the creative industries in the global entrepreneurial community
• A partnership with the U.S. State Department around a government- convened entrepreneurship summit in Morocco during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November of 2014.
- GEC2 : a new series to take deep- dives into specific topics or regions— launches in Croatia in September hosted by Croatian President Ivo Josipovic. The weeklong event will focus on entrepreneurship education, piloting the GEW Mindset Project and a new event called 10x10 where 10 groups of 10 young nascent entrepreneurs from various countries come together to develop companies real-time.
GEW Global embarks on this mission with newly approved multi-year funding from the Kauffman Foundation, an experienced new Board of Directors, and a talented staffwith experience in multiple regions and languages.
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