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Countries Around The World Unite To Celebrate Entrepreneurship

PRNewswire:
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown joined Carl Schramm of the Kauffman Foundation on november 13th in starting the countdown to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008, the world’s biggest single event celebrating and promoting entrepreneurship amongst young people.

The announcement was made at an event in London attended by leading business figures and entrepreneurs from around the globe, including 26 of the 37 countries signed up to date. Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008 has been founded by Make Your Mark, the business-led, government-backed campaign to create an enterprise culture in the UK, and the US-based Kauffman Foundation, the world’s pre-eminent Foundation dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship.

‘Enterprise Week has been a massive success in the UK - over 5,000 different events will take place this week. From now on, it will be linked to enterprise campaigns around the world through Global Entrepreneurship Week,’ stated Prime Minister Brown. ‘By unleashing the creativity and ideas of young people all over the world, we can create the successful products and businesses of tomorrow.’

From 17-23 November 2008, millions of people will take part in events organised by thousands of organisations worldwide. The Week will create the world’s next generation of entrepreneurs by inspiring people through activities and by connecting them through online social networks.

Global Entrepreneurship Week will promote the benefits of unleashing young people’s entrepreneurial ideas to address society’s biggest issues, such as poverty, climate change and sustainability.

More information at Unleashing Ideas.