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GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
IMPACT REPORT
MARCH 2014
FOREWORD 02
WHAT IS GEW? 06
A WORLD OF IMPACT 08
ACCELERATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP 11
VIP ENGAGEMENT 15
BRAND ENGAGEMENT 26
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK 32
GEW GLOBAL 34
OUR HOSTS 36
HOSTS BY TYPE 37
OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS 38
OUR REACH: COUNTRY METRICS 40
LOOKING AHEAD 52
CONTENTS
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Jonathan Ortmans
President, Global
Entrepreneurship Week
FOREWORD
3 Foreword
The entrepreneurial spirit has now spread
widely across the planet. In the words of
one delegate at the Global Entrepreneurship
Congress in Rio de Janeiro last year, “We
are evangelizing for entrepreneurship but
who is the opposition? It is now increasingly
true we have won.”
Startups are now springing up in the
most unexpected corners of the globe.
Entrepreneurial programs, capital and talent
are traveling to ?nd the most promising
founder teams. And savvy national policy
advisors are in regular dialogue with their
startup ecosystems in an on-going quest to
smooth the path for new ?rms to start and
scale.
Since it began in 2008, Global
Entrepreneurship Week has played an
important part in bringing about this
dynamism that ultimately has led to the
democratization of entrepreneurship.
Starting as a grassroots movement
anchored in established economies with
stable political systems, it has matured to a
global platform blind to types of economies,
cultures and value systems fueled by the
promise of human endeavor for the bene?t
of all.
During the past year, GEW focused on
expanding its footprint in challenging
markets—?ourishing in countries like Iran,
Libya and Venezuela that are hardly known
as bastions of capitalism or risk taking.
In the words of the late Zeyad Ben Halim,
GEW Libya’s 2013 team leader, “Global
Entrepreneurship Week helped give birth to
a new movement of creative entrepreneurs
optimistic about their future just when a
post-con?ict Libya needed them most.”
Zeyad, who sadly passed away recently,
will be an inspiration to our teams around
the world for years to come for his work in
pioneering such promise despite dif?cult
circumstances.
In total, GEW Global signed 22 new national
agreements with host organizations
and leadership teams bringing the
formal collective global engagement to
140 nations. Those nations continue to
establish formal boards and independent
organizations to assure the long-term
sustainability of their entrepreneurial
ecosystem using GEW leadership as
connective tissue. Dell—a long-time global
sponsor of GEW that is now dubbed ‘the
world’s largest startup’—was joined at the
national level by brands like Barclays (UK),
BASF (Germany), Coca-Cola (US), Google
(US), Nokia (Finland), SAB Miller (South
Africa), Samsung (South Korea), Santander
(Spain), Toyota (Japan), Vodafone (UK) and
many more in an effort to demonstrate
how important startups can be in breathing
vitality and innovation into large ?rm culture.
And at the heart of it all were thousands
of new founder teams and young startups
using GEW as a chance to unleash their
ideas—including prize winning startups
from Kansas City, Berlin, Dhaka, Toronto
and Zagreb who won GEW competitions
that provided them with additional capital
and connections to accelerate their growth.
BEYOND
THE
WEEK
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The Challenge Ahead
However, with such great success come
new challenges.
This globalization of entrepreneurship
has brought an explosion of programs,
startup communities and investments
into a new ?eld where there is a paucity of
data around what works and what does
not in supporting nascent entrepreneurs
and new ?rms preparing to scale. In
addition, as cities and nations more widely
acknowledge the vital role of entrepreneurs
in their economies, traditional business,
education and government leaders
arrive at the table unfamiliar with the
new role assigned to them as “feeders”
to entrepreneurs who have positioned
themselves as the “leaders” of this global
collection of startup communities.
To address these developments, over the
next three years, GEW Global will embark
on an ambitious agenda to better support
a maturing collection of entrepreneurial
ecosystems around the world. This
includes:
6 Expanding the number of ordinary
citizens working for or starting ?rms
around the world by fully legitimizing
entrepreneurs in all cultures and
economies. The world needs more
entrepreneurs.
6 Increasing understanding between
the new and traditional elements of
emerging startup communities and
ecosystems including the constructive
engagement of the public sector in
supporting entrepreneur designed
public programs. It takes a village
where everyone collaborates to
succeed.
6 Supporting the emergence of a
new class of global entrepreneurs
supported through access to research,
programs and networks inside the 140
nation strong GEW network. National
boundaries are porous to innovation
and a new creative class of risk takers
is hard-wired to a global network.
6 Connecting an emerging community of
national startup policy advisors with a
next generation network of world-class
entrepreneurship research institutions
in an effort to generate more robust
research and data to support evidence-
based policymaking and more effective
entrepreneurial support programming.
In short, data and analysis on what
works and what does not in helping
new ?rm formation.
To support these missions, in 2014
GEW Global is rolling out a slate of new
partnerships and initiatives:
6 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.
6 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.
6 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.
6 The inaugural meeting of the Global
Entrepreneurship Research Network
gets underway at the GEC in
5 Foreword
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.
6 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.
6 A new partnership with Startup
Genome to map startup ecosystems
and their weaknesses within the GEW
community.
6 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
6 A partnership with the U.S. State
Department around a government-
convened entrepreneurship
summit in Morocco during Global
Entrepreneurship Week in November
of 2014.
6 GEC2 —a new series to take deep-
dives into speci?c 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 staff
with experience in multiple regions and
languages.
As more of the world embraces their
entrepreneurs and the science of startups,
the role of Global Entrepreneurship Week
as the platform from which to ef?ciently
build teams, strengthen relationships
and develop a body of robust research
will become even more important. In the
weeks, months and years ahead, GEW will
continue to prove that a disparate collection
of players can indeed work well together—
advancing new ?rm formation and
legitimizing a solid pathway to job creation
WHAT IS GEW?
MORE THAN JUST THE
WORLD’S LARGEST
CELEBRATION
OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Global Entrepreneurship Week is an
expanding platform for connection and
collaboration that helps millions of people
unleash their ideas and turn them into
promising new ventures—solving global
challenges and strengthening economic
stability around the world.
During one week each November, more than
25,000 events, activities and competitions
in 140 countries connect participants to
potential collaborators, mentors and even
investors.
Millions who had never before considered
launching their own ventures soak up advice
and inspiration from the likes of Richard
Branson and Michael Dell. Thousands of
brand new startups spring to life through
bootcamps like Startup Weekend and
competitions like Startup Open. Hundreds
of universities strengthen connections that
help them commercialize research from
their labs. Researchers and policymakers
engage in discussions around the world to
examine the underlying policies necessary
to promote entrepreneurial growth. And
serial entrepreneurs share their expertise
and provide mentorship through a range of
programs.
Meanwhile, world leaders and local elected
of?cials alike have embraced the campaign
as they look to fuel the economic engine of
high-growth startups in their own countries
and communities. During 2013 alone,
126 heads of state and ministers from
69 countries participated by speaking at
activities during the Week, ?lming statements
of support or otherwise endorsing the
national campaigns in their countries.
The initiative launched in 2008 and has
quickly grown to more than 140 countries
with national campaigns hosted by a range of
organizations that reach new audiences, test
intervention methodologies and strengthen
their entrepreneurial ecosystems—giving rise
to the next generation of entrepreneurs and
empowering them to make their mark on the
world.
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140
9,925 25,621
6,630,292
#GEW
What is GEW?
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A
WORLD OF
IMPACT
GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
With millions of participants in more countries than ever before, Global Entrepreneurship Week
continues to build on its historical success. But its true impact cannot be measured only by
simple metrics like the number of countries (140), partners (9,925) or activities (25,621). Creat-
ing lasting impact is a challenging task, does not happen overnight and is dif?cult to measure.
A 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation quanti?es the importance of connections and
shows that there is a strong link between knowing an entrepreneur and being one yourself.
More than one in three survey respondents who knew an entrepreneur were entrepreneurs
themselves. This reinforces what many of us already believed to be true—that entrepreneur-
ship is behavior learned in part through imitation.
That line of reasoning is the foundation for Global Entrepreneurship Week and why it focuses
on creating connections that build and strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in communities
around the world. Global Entrepreneurship Week uses activities, events and competitions to
inspire nascent entrepreneurs and connect them with potential collaborators, mentors and
investors to help them start and scale. It also creates connections between startup com-
munities and policymakers that help shape policy environments conducive to entrepreneurial
growth. And it leverages the resources and reach of global brands in its national campaigns.
But to truly appreciate the far-reaching impact of GEW, it is best to look to the countries that
celebrate it. In Algeria, the Minister of Industry created a National Day of Entrepreneurship
to occur every November during GEW. The Angolan government created a new fund for
entrepreneurs and developed its ?rst national policy on entrepreneurship since achieving
independence in 1975. In Belgium, the Pulse Foundation is crediting GEW for the birth of a
national entrepreneurship community—overcoming a fragmented government that has con-
sidered entrepreneurship a regional issue. A pair of Brazilian governors, in São Paulo and
Minas Gerais, unveiled plans for new programs to support potential high-growth startups. Yo
Emprender reports in Costa Rica that the government provided $1.8 million in seed capital
to 13 entrepreneurs. In Georgia, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center
is collaborating with the government on new policies to promote entrepreneurship. Klak
Innovit credits international partnerships made through GEW with giving Iceland startups a
global mindset that will help them break out from their small home market. The GEW India
campaign worked to expand the pool of early-stage risk capital in the country by piloting a
training program for potential angel investors. The Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center
worked with the Indonesian Central Bank (BI) to launch a new program to train local entre-
preneurs in agribusiness and connect them with one of the biggest supermarket chains in
Indonesia. The now-annual SlumFest in Kenya is inspiring vulnerable youth in urban slums
and providing them with startup capital to launch new enterprises. In Lebanon, a new Life
Long Entrepreneurial Learning Program was launched by a GEW partner in collaboration with
the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. IT Park, a state-funded incubator in Mongo-
lia, is integrating GEW activities into its program for 300 startups. A relationship born from the
2012 GEC in Liverpool between Youth Business International and Enterprise Uganda resulted
in a new agreement to fund entrepreneurship training and mentoring support for 10,000 youth
in northern Uganda.
These are just a handful of examples that continue to surface from more than 140 countries.
As GEW continues to build and grow the entrepreneurial ecosystems in these countries, its
impact multiplies.
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ACCELERATING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
EyeVerify Wins Global Title Belt
in Rotterdam
EyeVerify, a tech startup from Kansas
City with a software solution that veri?es
identity via a human eyeprint and
smartphone, delivered the knockout
pitch in the global ?nals of Get In the
Ring, a featured competition of Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
More than 1,000 startups across 32
countries competed for a shot at $1.3M
in potential angel investment. EyeVerify
defeated ?nalists from the Netherlands,
Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Canada,
Spain and the United Kingdom.
It was a busy week of pitching for
EyeVerify and its founder and CEO, Toby
Rush, who earlier in the week competed
in the U.S. national ?nals held at the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and
immediately boarded a ?ight to Rotterdam
for the ?nals.
EyeVerify has developed a smartphone
technology that identi?es users by
pattern-matching blood vessels in the
whites of the eye. The technology creates
an “eyeprint” that is more accurate than
?ngerprint scanning. The technology
is compatible with virtually every
smartphone on the market.
Teddy the Guardian Doubles Up
During GEW
Teddy the Guardian, a completely organic
plush teddy bear that measures children’s
vital signs seamlessly as they play, had an
impressive Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The Croatian startup took top honors in
two featured competitions on the same
day.
Created by Josipa Majic and Ana Burica,
co-founders of iDerma, a tech startup in
Zagreb, Croatia, Teddy beat out startups
from 31 countries to be named the
winner of the 2013 Startup Open. The
competition, run by the organizers of
Global Entrepreneurship Week, identi?es
and recognizes the most promising young
?rms with a startup moment within the
past 12 months.
Teddy also emerged victorious at the
Creative Business Cup after out-pitching
startups in the creative industries from
36 countries at the global ?nals in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Prince Joachim
of Denmark handed out awards to the
prize winners, and Henrik Sass Larsen,
the Danish Minister for Business and
Growth, discussed the importance of the
creative industries to future economic
growth.
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Each Teddy bear has built-in medical
sensors that monitor a child’s heart rate,
body temperature and oxygen saturation.
Every time a child puts Teddy’s paw on his
forehead or hugs him, the bear’s sensors
detect values, record them and transmit
them in real time to a mobile app where
data is analyzed, visualized, managed and
downloaded by medical staff and parents.
“Earlier this summer, I had the pleasure
of meeting Croatian President Ivo
Josipovic and he stressed to me the
importance of instilling an entrepreneurial
mindset in the people of his country,”
said Jonathan Ortmans, president of
Global Entrepreneurship Week and a
senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
“He should know that he has a shining
example of innovation right in the capital
city.”
For the wins, Teddy the Guardian founder
Josipa Majic receives an all-expenses-
paid trip to Moscow, Russia, to serve
as an of?cial delegate to the Global
Entrepreneurship Congress in March
2014 as well as $20,000 in cash and a
free three-month stay at the GEW Startup
House in Kansas City’s Startup Village.
One Startup Open ?nalist from
Bangladesh, Soumik Aswad for Panacea,
won a runner-up prize of one year of
mentoring from successful entrepreneurs
courtesy of the Entrepreneurs’
Organization as well as a free 3-month
stay at the GEW Startup House. The
Dhaka-based startup’s mobile application
allows customers to verify the authenticity
of medication and pharmaceuticals—
an all-too-common problem with
counterfeiters in its native Bangladesh—
with a quick QR code scan.
Survey Provides Snapshot
of Policy Environment for
Entrepreneurs in 30 Countries
What do entrepreneurs in America have
in common with entrepreneurs in Qatar?
More than you might imagine, according
to a survey sponsored by the organizers of
Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The 2013 GEW Policy Survey results,
released by GEW co-creator and co-
sponsor, the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation, reveal both similarities
and differences among entrepreneurs
around the world in their perceptions
of entrepreneurial policies and other
resources. Participants were asked to
respond to 12 statements about their
experiences in the areas of regulation,
access to resources and entrepreneurial
environment.
The results begin to paint a picture of
the cultural and regulatory conditions
entrepreneurs experience around the globe.
“The survey was designed as an
experimental means of gathering
and publishing a standardized set
of information worldwide on the
entrepreneurial experience to inform
government policies,” said Dane Stangler,
vice president of Research and Policy at
the Kauffman Foundation. “The sample
size is large and dispersed enough to
indicate differences among regions and
nations that are both logical and, at least in
part, statistically signi?cant.”
In terms of their respective entrepreneurial
environments, respondents worldwide had
a slightly negative experience. However,
this varied among the eight different
regions represented: composite scores for
Australia & Oceania and for North America
were signi?cantly more positive while
scores for Latin America & Caribbean and
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Eastern Europe were signi?cantly more
negative.
Responses to the four statements
regarding regulation—including “the
process for registering a business with
the government is clear and easy” and
“public of?cials who regulate business are
competent and honest”—received the
lowest average scores. The most positive
response worldwide was to the resources-
related statement “entrepreneurs like me
have access to advisors and mentors who
can provide helpful guidance.” Interestingly,
the statements with the lowest average
scores also had the largest variances,
suggesting that entrepreneurship-related
regulations vary signi?cantly from country
to country.
Other survey ?ndings include:
Respondents from the Paci?c and South
Asian region had the highest percentage
of males (82.2 percent) and the lowest
average age (33.7 years). North America
had the lowest percentage of males (53
percent), while Western Europe had the
highest average age (40.5 years).
Of the countries surveyed, Qatar had the
highest (i.e. most positive) composite score
with 5.0, while Greece had the lowest
score with 2.5, the latter likely a re?ection
of that country’s recent economic woes.
Worldwide, access to advisors/mentors
(4.3) and fairness of competitors operating
in compliance with the law (4.3) were most
commonly rated positively. Tax laws were
most likely to be seen as impediments
(3.5) and courts perceived as not resolving
disagreements effectively (3.5).
A higher score on any one statement
increased the likelihood of a higher score
on every other statement, suggesting that
the elements of entrepreneurs’ experience
are synergistic—improvements in any
one are likely to be associated with
improvements in others.
The coef?cients for any one statement
and each other statement in the
same category (regulation, access to
resources, entrepreneurial environment)
are relatively high (between 0.32 and
0.64). In other words, improvements in
any one dimension of the entrepreneurial
experience tend to be associated with
other improvements in the same category.
“The results of this initial survey were both
informative and thought-provoking,” said
Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global
Entrepreneurship Week and a Kauffman
Foundation senior fellow. “We hope
these kinds of surveys along with other
efforts underway at GEW will help drive a
conversation between startup communities
and government policy advisors eager to
accelerate the pace of new ?rm formation
in their countries.”
Toronto Still Home to Global
Startup Battle Champion
For the second consecutive year, a startup
from Toronto came away victorious from
the Global Startup Battle, a competition
that takes more than 20,000 people from
over 200 cities and turns them into founder
teams to compete for $500,000 in prizes.
Pawly is “your dog’s friend,” a company
that provides a new way to interact with
pets. It is an app and accompanying chew
toy that the pet can play with while users
talk and interact using a smartphone. The
chew toy has a high de?nition camera and
video recorder with a built-in microphone
and speaker.
During the Startup Weekend Maker Edition
in Toronto during Global Entrepreneurship
Week, co-organizer Sunil Sharma said of
Pawly, “The Pawly team was an impressive
combination of robotics engineers,
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software developers and industrial and
graphic designers who literally printed and
assembled the parts of Pawly using the 3D
printers, laser cutters, wiring harnesses and
chipsets.” Sharma continued, “Robotics
is a very hot space right now, and I am
hopeful that they will continue with their
work and make a lasting company from
this fantastic start.”
For its efforts, the founding team received
$20,000 in match funding for Pawly’s
Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, a trip
to Google’s headquarters in San Francisco
for three Pawly members and a Google
hangout with a celebrity entrepreneur.
German Startup Promotes
Urban Farming, Wins Cleantech
Competition
ECF Farmsystems, a German startup
that builds aquaponic farm systems that
enable resource-ef?cient ?sh and vegetable
production in urban environments, took
?rst place in the Cleantech Open Global
Ideas Competition.
Orchestrated in conjunction with Global
Entrepreneurship Week, the annual
competition brings early-stage startups
with breakthrough cleantech ideas to
Silicon Valley to compete for a chance
at more than $100,000 worth of startup
services. All entries must be a startup with
less than $1 million from private third party
funding at the time of entry.
“It is a great recognition to be part of this
fantastic event,” said Nicolas Leschke,
CEO of ECF Farmsystems. “All cleantech
startups are winners because we dedicate
our lives to leaving a mark for future
generations.”
For the ?nals, 28 teams from around
the world convened in San Jose at the
Cleantech Open Global Forum, the
“Academy Awards of Cleantech,” which
marked the grand ?nale of this year’s
Cleantech Open Accelerator. Cleantech
innovators from Cape Verde, Lebanon,
Vietnam and beyond were beamed in via
videoconference.
After two days of intensive judging, ECF
Farmsystems was selected to be among
a group of ?ve national winners selected
to present to a ?nal jury of investors
and technology experts. Other ?nalists
include: Cibus (Costa Rica), Eternal Sun
(Netherlands), GreenSpense (Israel) and
Naked Energy (United Kingdom).
“As 14 to 24 percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions and 70 percent of
humanity’s fresh water usage are as
a direct result of agricultural activity,
ECF Farmsystems could have a major
impact far outside Germany,” said Kevin
Braithwaite, chair of the competition. “We
should be truly global in our search for
the most innovative solutions to the most
pressing environmental, economic and
social challenges facing our planet.”
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A global race to build the best startup ecosystem is going on, and it is a race that is open to
all types of economies and regions. Acknowledging an emerging collection of research and
data pointing to the potential of new and young ?rms, thought leaders and elected of?cials
at all levels alike have embraced Global Entrepreneurship Week—through proclamations as
well as participation—as they look to fuel the economic engine of high-growth startups in their
own countries and communities.
During November 2013, 126 heads of state and ministers from 69 countries participated in
Global Entrepreneurship Week, including:
ALGERIA
Mohamed Benmeradi, Minister of Industry, SMEs and Investment Promotion
BELARUS
Nikolai Snopkov, Minister of the Economy
BELGIUM
Kris Peeters, Minister-President of the Flanders Region
Sabine Laruelle, Minister of Self-Employed, SMEs and Agriculture
BENIN
Safou Idrissou Affo, Minister of Youth and Sports
BERMUDA
Michael Fahy, Minister for Home Affairs
Michael Dunkley, Minister for National Security
VIP ENGAGEMENT
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BHUTAN
Prime Minister Lyonchen Tshering Tobgay
Lyonpo Nima Sangay Tshempo, Minister of Labour and Human Resources
Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk, Minister for Economic Affairs
BULGARIA
President Rosen Plevneliev
Prime Minister Plamen Orecharski
CAMBODIA
Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport
Meng Saktheara, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts
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CAMEROON
Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, Minister for the Economy & National Planning
Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, Minister of SMEs, Social Economy and Handicrafts
Adoum Garoua, Minister of Youth Affairs
Zacharie Perevet, Minister of Employment and Professional Training
CANADA
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Diane Finley, Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for
Multiculturalism
Maxime Bernier, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism
Steve Kent, Minister of Municipal and Intergovernmental Affairs
CAPE VERDE
President Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Humberto Brito, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy
Antonio Correia, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
CHINA
President Xi Jinping
CHINESE TAIPEI
Den-Yi Wu, Vice President of the Republic of China
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COLOMBIA
Santiago Rojas, Minister of Commerce and Industry
COSTA RICA
President Laura Chinchilla Miranda
Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy Industry and Commerce
Gloria Abraham, Minister of Agriculture
COTE D’IVOIRE
Jean Louis Billon, Minister of Trade
Alain Logognon, Minister of Youth and Sport
CROATIA
President Ivo Josipovic
Gordon Maras, Minister of Entrepreneurship & Craft
CYPRUS
Andri Anastasiades, First Lady of Cyprus
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiri Cienciala, Minister of Industry and Trade
Dalibor Štys, Minister of Education
DOMINICA
Prime Minister Ambrose George (acting)
Justina Charles, Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Ligia Amada Melo, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
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EGYPT
Osama Saleh, Minister of Investment
ETHIOPIA
Mekuria Haile, Minister of Urban Development
GERMANY
Philipp Rösler, Minister of Economics and Technology
GREENLAND
Jens-Erik Kirkegaard, Minister of Industry & Mineral Resources
GUATEMALA
President Otto Pérez Molina
Sergio De la Torre, Minister of Economy
HUNGARY
János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Zoltán Cséfalvay, Minister of State for National Economy
ICELAND
Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Industry and Innovation
INDONESIA
Sjarifuddin Hasan, Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises
Ir . H. Suswono, Minister for Agriculture
M.A.S. Hikam, Minister of State for Research and Technology
IRELAND
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny
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ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Gideon Sa’ar, Minister of the Interior
Eugene Kandel, Head of the National Economic Council
ITALY
Emma Bonino, Minister of Foreign Affairs
JAMAICA
Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture
Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce
KAZAKHSTAN
Bakytzhan Sagintaev, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development
KENYA
Adan Mohammed, Minister of Industrialization and Enterprise Development
LATVIA
Daniels Pavluts, Minister of Economics
LEBANON
Nicolas Sahnaoui, Minister of Telecommunications
MACEDONIA
Vele Samak, Minister for Attracting Foreign Investments
MADAGASCAR
Botozaza Pierrot, Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Industry
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MALTA
Chris Cardona, Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business
Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment
MAURITIUS
Xavier Duval, Vice-Prime Minister & Minister of Finance
J. Seetaram, Minister of Business, Enterprise and Cooperatives
MONACO
Michel Roger, Minister of State
Jean Castellini, Minister for Economy and Finance
MONGOLIA
Battulga Khaltmaa, Minister of Industry and Agriculture
MOZAMBIQUE
Fernando Sumbana Junior, Minister of Youth
Armando Inroga, Minister of Industry and Trade
NAMIBIA
Nahas Angula, Minister of Defense
David Namwandi, Minister of Education
NEW ZEALAND
Prime Minister John Key
NIGERIA
Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment
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OMAN
Ali bin Massoud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry
PAKISTAN
Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Planning and Development
PALESTINE
Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa
Ahmad Majdalani, Minister of Labor
M. Osama Abdel Halim, Minister of IT
Jawad Naji, Minister of National Economy
PARAGUAY
David Ocampos, Minister of Information Technology & Communications
PERU
Raul Diez Canseco, Former Vice President of Peru
PHILIPPINES
President Benigno Aquino
Vice President Jejomar Binay
POLAND
Janusz Piechocinski, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Economy
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PORTUGAL
President Anibal Cavaco Silva
Assunção Cristas, Minister of Agriculture and Sea
Manuel Pinto de Abreu, Secretary of State of the Sea
RWANDA
Robert Bayigamba, Minister of Sports and Culture
Francois Kanimba, Minister of Trade and Industry
SAUDI ARABIA
Tawfq Al Rabiah, Minister of Commerce and Industry
Adel bin Mohammad Fakeih, Minister of Labor
SPAIN
Prince Felipe de Bourbon
President Mariano Rajoy
ST. LUCIA
Dame Pearlette Louisy, Governor General
Prime Minister Kenny Anthony (also Minister of Finance)
Phillip Pierre, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Port Services & Transport
Emma Hippolyte, Minister of Commerce, Business Development, Investment &
Consumer Affairs
Lorne Theophilus, Minister for Tourism, Heritage and the Creative Industries
Alvina Reynolds, Minister of Health and Wellness
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ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES
Stevenson Frederick, Minister of Youth
SWAZILAND
Deputy Prime Minister Paul Dlamini
Phineas Magugala, Minister of Education and Training
Gideon Dlamini, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade
David Ndlangamandla, Minister of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs
SWEDEN
Annie Lööf, Minister for Enterprise
Lena Ek, Minister for the Environment
TOGO
Bernadette Palouki Legzim, Minister of Trade and Private Sector Promotion
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
President Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona
Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development
Errol McLeod, Minister of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development
TURKEY
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy
UGANDA
Henry Kajura, Minister of State for Finance
UNITED KINGDOM
Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
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UNITED STATES
President Barack Obama
ZIMBABWE
Savior Kasukuwere, Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment
Josiah Hungwe, Minister of Psychomotor Activities
Sithembiso Nyoni, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise Development
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Led by a long-standing partnership with Dell, Global Entrepreneurship Week is supported
by an impressive collection of global brands. Dell continues to be actively involved, providing
support to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress and, among other things, announcing the
expansion of its Center for Entrepreneurs with a new of?ce in London during Global Entrepre-
neurship Week and plans to open new of?ces around the world in 2014.
Examples of other major brands that support GEW through its national campaigns and activi-
ties include (in alphabetical order)
BRAND
ENGAGEMENT
27 A World of Impact
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Rio de Janeiro is known for an abundance of sun and surf—and over-the-top celebration
during Carnival—but for one week in March 2013 it was home to a different kind of festival
that continued the evolution of the Global Entrepreneurship Week movement.
More than 2,000 people from 119 countries gathered in Rio for the latest Global
Entrepreneurship Congress—turning the gathering into a festival for startups and those
that support their growth around the world. It became clear that a new chapter in
entrepreneurship thinking had begun as two worlds have come together driven by a
profound awareness of the impact of entrepreneurship. Earnest governments anxious to
support the right program and pull the right policy levers are now interacting and even
collaborating with the grassroots networks and communities driving the emergence of
GLOBAL ENTREPRNEURSHIP
CONGRESS
29 A World of Impact
smarter ecosystems that support the
starting and scaling of new high-growth
?rms across the planet.
Serial entrepreneurs and investors like Brad
Feld of TechStars and Dave McClure of
500 Startups mixed with government
of?cials like Alexei Komissarov of the
Moscow City Government and Alessandro
Fusacchia from the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. The two government
of?cials are leading efforts in their
respective countries to promote
entrepreneurial growth—and part of those
efforts were to host the Global
Entrepreneurship Congress in Moscow
(March 2014) and Milan (March 2015).
That commitment from the top-down
demonstrates a new approach that mirrors
the iterative processes that a lot of startups
go through: experimenting with policies
and programs to ?nd out which are the
most effective at generating de?ned
objectives in terms of economic growth
and job creation. Further, like today’s
generation of startup creators,
policymakers are looking to the global
stage for ideas and expertise, seeking best
practices and bridges with other nations
that are successfully nurturing their
entrepreneurship ecosystems.
In Rio, all startup ecosystem players were
sharing a common platform for the ?rst
time. It was a shift in the frontier of the
entrepreneurship ?eld that has not come
easy. When the Kauffman Foundation
hosted the ?rst Global Entrepreneurship
Congress in Kansas City in 2009, the
mission was to support the grassroots
startup champions behind the Global
Entrepreneurship Week movement. But
much more has been accomplished
through the synergies that formed at each
following GEC. Dubai, Shanghai and
Liverpool made their own contributions
prior to Rio and more will follow with fresh
assessments of pro-entrepreneurship
efforts including better-targeted programs
and even new data for better-informed
policies.
The Future Begins in
Moscow
In hosting the 2014 Congress, Moscow is
determined to prove that it can be as
powerful as San Francisco or London in
terms of a vibrant startup culture. While the
Russian capital has been popping up in
recent ‘startup scene’ lists in publications like
Wired and TechCrunch, its decision to host
the GEC is already proof of a growing
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self-con?dence in the potential of its own
entrepreneurship ecosystem—an ecosystem
that is getting strong support from the top
from Komissarov and the city’s Department
of Science, Industrial Policy and
Entrepreneurship.
Held at the Moscow Manege, steps from the
Kremlin and Red Square, the Congress
features two main sessions—the Research +
Policy Summit and the Start + Scale
Forum—against the backdrop of more than
45 of?cial fringe events with hundreds of
speakers that provide educational and
networking opportunities as well as a unique
window into successful Russian models with
potential for being replicated.
New global efforts are taking their ?rst steps
in Moscow. One example is the Global
Entrepreneurship Research Network, a
collaboration of research organizations
founded by the Kauffman Foundation,
Endeavor Insight and World Bank, which
comes together for the ?rst time to generate
useful and actionable knowledge for
entrepreneurs, policymakers and others.
Other ?rsts launched from the GEC in
Moscow: a new coalition to promote
entrepreneurship in the creative industries; a
new experiential, problem-based learning
program on the fundamental aspects of
entrepreneurial thinking; and, a new GEC
event—GEC
2
scheduled for September
2014 in Croatia—that ?lls a need for more
in-depth collaboration by taking deep-dives
into speci?c topics.
Like the host cities before it, Moscow has
once again risen the bar.
As the Global Entrepreneurship Congress
and related efforts continue, they bring clarity
to the ?eld of entrepreneurship, fostering
productive discussions that reveal additional
strengths—as well as weaknesses—in
entrepreneurship ecosystems that yield
important insights to help us all bring new
ideas to life.
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GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK
GEW Hosts come together in
Rio de Janeiro for the 2013
Global Entrepreneurship
Congress.
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33
GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works to advance an
entrepreneurial society in which job creation, innovation and the economy
?ourish. It has an extensive Research & Policy program and also works
with leading educators, researchers and other partners to further
understanding of the powerful economic impact of entrepreneurship, to
train the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and to improve the
environment in which entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
support from
powered by
GEW GLOBAL
35 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
LEADERSHIP
GLOBAL BOARD
Donna Harris Co-founder, 1776
Jeff Hoffman Founder, ColorJar
Rebeca Hwang Managing Partner, Rivet Ventures
Jonathan Ortmans President, Global Entrepreneurship Week
Erik Pages Founder and President, EntreWorks Consulting
GEW GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Jonathan Ortmans President
Mark Marich Executive Vice President
Alan Simensky Chief Financial Offcer
Büke Çuhadar Vice President
Cristina Fernandez Director for Policy & Research Initiatives
Alana Ramo Director for Strategic Partnerships
Nick Vilelle Director for African Initiatives
Charlotte Lamontagne Communications Associate
Britney Wright Digital Associate
Hope Grauel Strategic Projects Associate
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
The strength of the Global
Entrepreneurship Week network lies in the
collection of host organizations guiding
the national campaigns in each of the
140 participating countries. These hosts
are accelerating the growth of inclusive
ecosystems by catalyzing partnerships with
a diverse range of players—entrepreneurs,
investors, researchers, educators,
policymakers, the media and more—and
rallying the network to conduct events and
activities during Global Entrepreneurship
Week.
Host organizations emerge from a
range of backgrounds—from startup
community groups to university
entrepreneurship centers to government
agencies and others active throughout
the year in shaping the next generation of
entrepreneurs.
OUR HOSTS
THE ORGANIZATIONS
THAT MAKE IT HAPPEN
37 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
YOUTH SUPPORT 40%
BUSINESS SUPPORT 37%
STARTUP CREATION 24%
GOVERNMENT 14%
FOUNDATION 10%
UNIVERSITY 9%
BUSINESS 4%
HOSTS BY TYPE
Government Agency | Program
Startup Creation | Growth Groups
Business Support Groups
Business | Proft or Nonproft
University | Academic Institution or Program
Youth Support Organization
Foundation
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Fortifying the engagement of thousands of
local partners holding events and activities
during Global Entrepreneurship Week is a
collection of Global Partners and Supporters
that bring a wealth of expertise, experience
and energy to the initiative.
The following organizations contribute to
Global Entrepreneurship Week in a variety
of ways: creating founder teams that
launch startups, providing hosts of national
campaigns, contributing mentors to guide
nascent entrepreneurs, running high-pro?le
competitions, engaging in substantive
discussions and more to further the ?eld of
entrepreneurship.
OUR GLOBAL
PARTNERS AND
SUPPORTERS
DELL
with additional support from
Endeavor
Entrepreneurs’ Organization
JA Worldwide
Youth Business International
Startup Weekend
Center for International Private
Enterprise
LIONS@FRICA
Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship
Youth Employment Network
MIT Enterprise Forum
Aspen Network of Development
Entrepreneurs
International Labour Organization
YEC Global
39 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Each year, we are expanding
our network and bringing new
opportunities to aspiring and
experienced entrepreneurs
alike. This map indicates the
140 participating countries
in Global Entrepreneurship
Week 2013.
OUR REACH
MAPPING OUR PROGRESS AROUND
THE GLOBE
41
Over the following pages, you will
fnd relevant facts and fgures about
the countries involved in Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Opportunities Albania Albania 11 8 1,000
NAPEO Algeria 210 720 69,200
Angolan Forum for Competitive Knowledge Innovation & Development Angola 4 4 700
Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center Antigua 1 3 25
Endeavor Argentina Argentina 45 40 38,500
Armenia StartUp Cup Armenia 10 10 1,200
The FRANK Team Australia 30 220 11,000
IFTE Austria 25 23 2,500
Young Arab Leaders - Bahrain Bahrain ** ** **
Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders League Bangladesh 16 37 80,000
Barbados Youth Business Trust Barbados 39 37 23,053
BELBIZ Belarus 17 47 18,000
Pulse Foundation Belgium 41 52 25,500
FORAM Initiatives Benin 3 3 2,944
Bermuda Economic Development Corporation Bermuda 11 14 1,292
loden Foundation Bhutan 9 25 820
Red Bolivia Emprendedora Bolivia 32 76 62,000
Association for Promotion of Entrepreneurship
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
3 3 230
Endeavor Brazil Brazil 598 4,127 1,678,250
Junior Achievement Bulgaria Bulgaria 5 150 5,000
Association pour la Promotion, le Soutien et le Suivi de l’Investissement Privé (APSIP) Burkina Faso 15 20 3,550
Youth Action for Development Burundi 5 5 2,350
Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia Cambodia ** ** **
Youth Business Cameroon Cameroon 15 32 6,425
Canadian Youth Business Foundation Canada 170 595 25,226
AJEC Cape Verde 75 190 12,982
Endeavor Chile Chile 10 20 17,000
Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates China 50 198 92,396
43 Our Reach: Country Metrics
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Opportunities Albania Albania 11 8 1,000
NAPEO Algeria 210 720 69,200
Angolan Forum for Competitive Knowledge Innovation & Development Angola 4 4 700
Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center Antigua 1 3 25
Endeavor Argentina Argentina 45 40 38,500
Armenia StartUp Cup Armenia 10 10 1,200
The FRANK Team Australia 30 220 11,000
IFTE Austria 25 23 2,500
Young Arab Leaders - Bahrain Bahrain ** ** **
Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders League Bangladesh 16 37 80,000
Barbados Youth Business Trust Barbados 39 37 23,053
BELBIZ Belarus 17 47 18,000
Pulse Foundation Belgium 41 52 25,500
FORAM Initiatives Benin 3 3 2,944
Bermuda Economic Development Corporation Bermuda 11 14 1,292
loden Foundation Bhutan 9 25 820
Red Bolivia Emprendedora Bolivia 32 76 62,000
Association for Promotion of Entrepreneurship
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
3 3 230
Endeavor Brazil Brazil 598 4,127 1,678,250
Junior Achievement Bulgaria Bulgaria 5 150 5,000
Association pour la Promotion, le Soutien et le Suivi de l’Investissement Privé (APSIP) Burkina Faso 15 20 3,550
Youth Action for Development Burundi 5 5 2,350
Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia Cambodia ** ** **
Youth Business Cameroon Cameroon 15 32 6,425
Canadian Youth Business Foundation Canada 170 595 25,226
AJEC Cape Verde 75 190 12,982
Endeavor Chile Chile 10 20 17,000
Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates China 50 198 92,396
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Youth Career Development Association Headquarters, R.O.C Chinese Taipei 32 33 25,897
Endeavor Colombia Colombia 92 257 69,209
Youth Entrepreneurship & Sustainability DR Congo Congo, DRC 10 3 5,000
Yo Emprendedor Costa Rica 21 35 12,000
Startup Initiative Côte d’ivoire 4 3 250
Croatian Small Business Union (HUMP-CROSBU) Croatia 9 37 200,100
Industry Disruptors - Game Changers Cyprus 6 6 900
European Leadership & Academic Institute Czech Republic 25 37 3,000
Danish Business Authority Denmark 33 257 42,607
Dominica Youth Business Trust Dominica 3 12 790
Emprende / Dominica Incuba Dominican Republic 14 51 3,552
Fundación Emprender Ecuador 156 312 103,521
MSCBE Egypt 21 101 12,000
FUSADES El Salvador 12 14 3,200
Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu Estonia ** ** **
Empact Capital Ethiopia 12 15 16,450
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Finland 12 16 1,700
Citizen Entrepreneurs France 100 100 100,000
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre Georgia 17 27 930
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Germany 821 1,900 51,000
Youth Enhancement International Ghana 50 60 205,000
OESYNE - Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs Greece 16 18 1,000
Startup Greenland Greenland 1 4 150
Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center, Francisco Marroquin University Guatemala 21 40 2,750
Guyana Youth Business Trust Guyana 6 8 250
Junior Achievement Honduras Honduras 15 15 15,700
FIVOSZ - Young Entrepreneurs Association Hungary Hungary 1 73 13,000
Klak Innovit Iceland 5 11 600
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (IIM Ahmedabad) India 63 171 12,750
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
45 Our Reach: Country Metrics
Youth Career Development Association Headquarters, R.O.C Chinese Taipei 32 33 25,897
Endeavor Colombia Colombia 92 257 69,209
Youth Entrepreneurship & Sustainability DR Congo Congo, DRC 10 3 5,000
Yo Emprendedor Costa Rica 21 35 12,000
Startup Initiative Côte d’ivoire 4 3 250
Croatian Small Business Union (HUMP-CROSBU) Croatia 9 37 200,100
Industry Disruptors - Game Changers Cyprus 6 6 900
European Leadership & Academic Institute Czech Republic 25 37 3,000
Danish Business Authority Denmark 33 257 42,607
Dominica Youth Business Trust Dominica 3 12 790
Emprende / Dominica Incuba Dominican Republic 14 51 3,552
Fundación Emprender Ecuador 156 312 103,521
MSCBE Egypt 21 101 12,000
FUSADES El Salvador 12 14 3,200
Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu Estonia ** ** **
Empact Capital Ethiopia 12 15 16,450
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Finland 12 16 1,700
Citizen Entrepreneurs France 100 100 100,000
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre Georgia 17 27 930
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Germany 821 1,900 51,000
Youth Enhancement International Ghana 50 60 205,000
OESYNE - Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs Greece 16 18 1,000
Startup Greenland Greenland 1 4 150
Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center, Francisco Marroquin University Guatemala 21 40 2,750
Guyana Youth Business Trust Guyana 6 8 250
Junior Achievement Honduras Honduras 15 15 15,700
FIVOSZ - Young Entrepreneurs Association Hungary Hungary 1 73 13,000
Klak Innovit Iceland 5 11 600
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (IIM Ahmedabad) India 63 171 12,750
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center Indonesia 5 5 500
IEA Iran 14 10 2,200
Think Ireland Inc Ireland 3 120 5,400
Global Entrepreneurship Week Israel Israel 65 424 24,655
META Group Italy 18 53 5,700
Junior Achievement Jamaica Jamaica 11 13 1,625
IMPACT Japan Japan 9 18 900
Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship Jordan 28 45 3,011
Young Entrepreneurs Club of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 60 57 10,481
Junior Achievement Kenya Kenya 12 5 21,000
Innovation Center Kosovo Kosovo 16 13 3,500
Central Asian Free Market Institute Kyrgyzstan 8 12 942
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia 6 6 1,850
Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program Lebanon 50 40 1,700
Silatech Libya 15 15 600
ISM University of Management and Economics Lithuania 15 80 6,500
YES Foundation Macedonia 11 7 374
Habaka Madagascar Innovation Hub Madagascar 3 13 6,600
StartupMalaysia.org Malaysia 1 10 5,600
Jokkolabs Bamako Mali 4 4 90
The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta Malta 6 7 1,000
Empretec Mauritius Mauritius 12 69 183,835
Endeavor Mexico & Impulsa / JA Mexico Mexico 284 1,334 218,974
Invento Moldova 24 27 1,000
JCI Monaco Monaco 1 2 200
SWMongolia Mongolia 6 5 600
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Montenegro 2 5 100
CEED Morocco Morocco 38 47 2,000
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center Indonesia 5 5 500
IEA Iran 14 10 2,200
Think Ireland Inc Ireland 3 120 5,400
Global Entrepreneurship Week Israel Israel 65 424 24,655
META Group Italy 18 53 5,700
Junior Achievement Jamaica Jamaica 11 13 1,625
IMPACT Japan Japan 9 18 900
Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship Jordan 28 45 3,011
Young Entrepreneurs Club of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 60 57 10,481
Junior Achievement Kenya Kenya 12 5 21,000
Innovation Center Kosovo Kosovo 16 13 3,500
Central Asian Free Market Institute Kyrgyzstan 8 12 942
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia 6 6 1,850
Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program Lebanon 50 40 1,700
Silatech Libya 15 15 600
ISM University of Management and Economics Lithuania 15 80 6,500
YES Foundation Macedonia 11 7 374
Habaka Madagascar Innovation Hub Madagascar 3 13 6,600
StartupMalaysia.org Malaysia 1 10 5,600
Jokkolabs Bamako Mali 4 4 90
The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta Malta 6 7 1,000
Empretec Mauritius Mauritius 12 69 183,835
Endeavor Mexico & Impulsa / JA Mexico Mexico 284 1,334 218,974
Invento Moldova 24 27 1,000
JCI Monaco Monaco 1 2 200
SWMongolia Mongolia 6 5 600
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Montenegro 2 5 100
CEED Morocco Morocco 38 47 2,000
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Empresa Junior Mozambique 9 1 197
Project Hub Yangon Myanmar 9 9 570
Junior Achievement Namibia Namibia 12 21 726,226
INCON Nepal 7 4 2,002
Stichting GEW Nederland Netherlands 42 217 25,000
GEW/NZ New Zealand 53 35 1,533
Axeltec Foundation Nicaragua 6 10 600
Enterprise Development Centre Nigeria 39 52 363,300
Gründernes Hus AS Norway 22 80 5,100
Zajil Oasis LLC Oman 20 27 3,000
Alternate Solutions Pakistan 100 30 13,000
Palestine for a New Beginning Palestine 49 31 2,432
Junior Achievement of Panama Panama 27 49 824
Fundacion Paraguaya Paraguay 45 55 18,820
British Peruvian Chamber of Commerce Peru 10 56 3,450
Young Entrepreneur Society - Philippines Philippines 60 164 15,016
Youth Forum Lewiatan Poland 2,206 2,225 82,419
APBA / SEDES Portugal 50 70 37,500
Silatech Qatar 33 62 3,900
Junior Achievement Romania Romania 11 14 55,000
Center for Entrepreneurship Russia 368 900 171,110
Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center Rwanda 50 50 7,500
St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture St. Lucia 37 51 78,567
Qotuf AlRiyadah Saudi Arabia 9 8 6,250
Jokkolabs Senegal 31 13 6,607
Mokra Gora School of Management Serbia 7 3 7,070
MoneyTree Asia Pacifc Singapore ** ** **
Shaqodoon Somalia ** ** **
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Empresa Junior Mozambique 9 1 197
Project Hub Yangon Myanmar 9 9 570
Junior Achievement Namibia Namibia 12 21 726,226
INCON Nepal 7 4 2,002
Stichting GEW Nederland Netherlands 42 217 25,000
GEW/NZ New Zealand 53 35 1,533
Axeltec Foundation Nicaragua 6 10 600
Enterprise Development Centre Nigeria 39 52 363,300
Gründernes Hus AS Norway 22 80 5,100
Zajil Oasis LLC Oman 20 27 3,000
Alternate Solutions Pakistan 100 30 13,000
Palestine for a New Beginning Palestine 49 31 2,432
Junior Achievement of Panama Panama 27 49 824
Fundacion Paraguaya Paraguay 45 55 18,820
British Peruvian Chamber of Commerce Peru 10 56 3,450
Young Entrepreneur Society - Philippines Philippines 60 164 15,016
Youth Forum Lewiatan Poland 2,206 2,225 82,419
APBA / SEDES Portugal 50 70 37,500
Silatech Qatar 33 62 3,900
Junior Achievement Romania Romania 11 14 55,000
Center for Entrepreneurship Russia 368 900 171,110
Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center Rwanda 50 50 7,500
St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture St. Lucia 37 51 78,567
Qotuf AlRiyadah Saudi Arabia 9 8 6,250
Jokkolabs Senegal 31 13 6,607
Mokra Gora School of Management Serbia 7 3 7,070
MoneyTree Asia Pacifc Singapore ** ** **
Shaqodoon Somalia ** ** **
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Endeavor South Africa South Africa 94 50 4,500
Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation South Korea 98 13 400
IESE Business School Spain 80 230 20,000
Young Entrepreneurs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 67 67 5,802
Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Livelihoods St. Kitts & Nevis 2 2 25
Youth Business Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
2 7 1,512
Women’s Business Group Foundation Suriname ** ** **
Junior Achievement Swaziland Swaziland 16 35 1,935
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute Sweden 108 211 11,700
ZAYEE Tanzania 7 7 500
Ayana Co Ltd - Global Entrepreneurship Thailand Thailand 28 33 8,200
American Chamber of Commerce, The Gambia The Gambia 3 5 501
Initiatives des Jeunes pour le Développement (IJD) Togo 6 4 15,580
Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad & Tobago 17 26 2,398
The Arab Institute Of Business Managers (IACE) Tunisia 105 161 94,085
Endeavor Turkey Turkey 200 185 80,000
Enterprise Uganda Uganda 27 37 50,570
Association of Socio-Economic Strategies and Partnerships Ukraine 20 28 1,842
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab
Emirates
7 12 200
Youth Business International United Kingdom 633 3,240 347,000
Endeavor Uruguay Uruguay 13 16 2,232
GEW/USA United States 1,247 4,115 713,326
Ecosistema Nacional de Emprendimiento Venezuela 42 134 31,575
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vietnam 13 9 450
Youth Leadership Development Foundation Yemen 2 1 20
ELIF Business SolutionsLtd. / SME Toolkit Zambia Zambia 15 20 600
Empretec Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 6 15 3,500
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Endeavor South Africa South Africa 94 50 4,500
Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation South Korea 98 13 400
IESE Business School Spain 80 230 20,000
Young Entrepreneurs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 67 67 5,802
Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Livelihoods St. Kitts & Nevis 2 2 25
Youth Business Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
2 7 1,512
Women’s Business Group Foundation Suriname ** ** **
Junior Achievement Swaziland Swaziland 16 35 1,935
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute Sweden 108 211 11,700
ZAYEE Tanzania 7 7 500
Ayana Co Ltd - Global Entrepreneurship Thailand Thailand 28 33 8,200
American Chamber of Commerce, The Gambia The Gambia 3 5 501
Initiatives des Jeunes pour le Développement (IJD) Togo 6 4 15,580
Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad & Tobago 17 26 2,398
The Arab Institute Of Business Managers (IACE) Tunisia 105 161 94,085
Endeavor Turkey Turkey 200 185 80,000
Enterprise Uganda Uganda 27 37 50,570
Association of Socio-Economic Strategies and Partnerships Ukraine 20 28 1,842
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab
Emirates
7 12 200
Youth Business International United Kingdom 633 3,240 347,000
Endeavor Uruguay Uruguay 13 16 2,232
GEW/USA United States 1,247 4,115 713,326
Ecosistema Nacional de Emprendimiento Venezuela 42 134 31,575
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vietnam 13 9 450
Youth Leadership Development Foundation Yemen 2 1 20
ELIF Business SolutionsLtd. / SME Toolkit Zambia Zambia 15 20 600
Empretec Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 6 15 3,500
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Plans are being drawn up now for GEW 2014. If you or your
organization would like to be involved at any level, from
organizing an activity in your country, to signing up as a
sponsor or becoming a supporter, we’d love to hear from you.
To learn more or to become a part of GEW, visit gew.co or
email Hope Grauel at [email protected].
Key Upcoming GEW Global Meetings & Dates:
Global Entrepreneurship Congress
Moscow, Russia | March 17 - 20, 2014
GEW Middle East Meetup
Athens, Greece | May 8 - 14, 2014
GEC²: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Zagreb, Split & Dubrovnik, Croatia | September 22 - 26, 2014
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014
November 17 - 23, 2014
GEW Startup Nations Summit
Seoul, Korea | November 23 - 25, 2014
Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2015
Milan, Italy | March 16 - 19, 2015
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GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
IMPACT REPORT
MARCH 2014
FOREWORD 02
WHAT IS GEW? 06
A WORLD OF IMPACT 08
ACCELERATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP 11
VIP ENGAGEMENT 15
BRAND ENGAGEMENT 26
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK 32
GEW GLOBAL 34
OUR HOSTS 36
HOSTS BY TYPE 37
OUR GLOBAL PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS 38
OUR REACH: COUNTRY METRICS 40
LOOKING AHEAD 52
CONTENTS
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Jonathan Ortmans
President, Global
Entrepreneurship Week
FOREWORD
3 Foreword
The entrepreneurial spirit has now spread
widely across the planet. In the words of
one delegate at the Global Entrepreneurship
Congress in Rio de Janeiro last year, “We
are evangelizing for entrepreneurship but
who is the opposition? It is now increasingly
true we have won.”
Startups are now springing up in the
most unexpected corners of the globe.
Entrepreneurial programs, capital and talent
are traveling to ?nd the most promising
founder teams. And savvy national policy
advisors are in regular dialogue with their
startup ecosystems in an on-going quest to
smooth the path for new ?rms to start and
scale.
Since it began in 2008, Global
Entrepreneurship Week has played an
important part in bringing about this
dynamism that ultimately has led to the
democratization of entrepreneurship.
Starting as a grassroots movement
anchored in established economies with
stable political systems, it has matured to a
global platform blind to types of economies,
cultures and value systems fueled by the
promise of human endeavor for the bene?t
of all.
During the past year, GEW focused on
expanding its footprint in challenging
markets—?ourishing in countries like Iran,
Libya and Venezuela that are hardly known
as bastions of capitalism or risk taking.
In the words of the late Zeyad Ben Halim,
GEW Libya’s 2013 team leader, “Global
Entrepreneurship Week helped give birth to
a new movement of creative entrepreneurs
optimistic about their future just when a
post-con?ict Libya needed them most.”
Zeyad, who sadly passed away recently,
will be an inspiration to our teams around
the world for years to come for his work in
pioneering such promise despite dif?cult
circumstances.
In total, GEW Global signed 22 new national
agreements with host organizations
and leadership teams bringing the
formal collective global engagement to
140 nations. Those nations continue to
establish formal boards and independent
organizations to assure the long-term
sustainability of their entrepreneurial
ecosystem using GEW leadership as
connective tissue. Dell—a long-time global
sponsor of GEW that is now dubbed ‘the
world’s largest startup’—was joined at the
national level by brands like Barclays (UK),
BASF (Germany), Coca-Cola (US), Google
(US), Nokia (Finland), SAB Miller (South
Africa), Samsung (South Korea), Santander
(Spain), Toyota (Japan), Vodafone (UK) and
many more in an effort to demonstrate
how important startups can be in breathing
vitality and innovation into large ?rm culture.
And at the heart of it all were thousands
of new founder teams and young startups
using GEW as a chance to unleash their
ideas—including prize winning startups
from Kansas City, Berlin, Dhaka, Toronto
and Zagreb who won GEW competitions
that provided them with additional capital
and connections to accelerate their growth.
BEYOND
THE
WEEK
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The Challenge Ahead
However, with such great success come
new challenges.
This globalization of entrepreneurship
has brought an explosion of programs,
startup communities and investments
into a new ?eld where there is a paucity of
data around what works and what does
not in supporting nascent entrepreneurs
and new ?rms preparing to scale. In
addition, as cities and nations more widely
acknowledge the vital role of entrepreneurs
in their economies, traditional business,
education and government leaders
arrive at the table unfamiliar with the
new role assigned to them as “feeders”
to entrepreneurs who have positioned
themselves as the “leaders” of this global
collection of startup communities.
To address these developments, over the
next three years, GEW Global will embark
on an ambitious agenda to better support
a maturing collection of entrepreneurial
ecosystems around the world. This
includes:
6 Expanding the number of ordinary
citizens working for or starting ?rms
around the world by fully legitimizing
entrepreneurs in all cultures and
economies. The world needs more
entrepreneurs.
6 Increasing understanding between
the new and traditional elements of
emerging startup communities and
ecosystems including the constructive
engagement of the public sector in
supporting entrepreneur designed
public programs. It takes a village
where everyone collaborates to
succeed.
6 Supporting the emergence of a
new class of global entrepreneurs
supported through access to research,
programs and networks inside the 140
nation strong GEW network. National
boundaries are porous to innovation
and a new creative class of risk takers
is hard-wired to a global network.
6 Connecting an emerging community of
national startup policy advisors with a
next generation network of world-class
entrepreneurship research institutions
in an effort to generate more robust
research and data to support evidence-
based policymaking and more effective
entrepreneurial support programming.
In short, data and analysis on what
works and what does not in helping
new ?rm formation.
To support these missions, in 2014
GEW Global is rolling out a slate of new
partnerships and initiatives:
6 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.
6 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.
6 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.
6 The inaugural meeting of the Global
Entrepreneurship Research Network
gets underway at the GEC in
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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.
6 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.
6 A new partnership with Startup
Genome to map startup ecosystems
and their weaknesses within the GEW
community.
6 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
6 A partnership with the U.S. State
Department around a government-
convened entrepreneurship
summit in Morocco during Global
Entrepreneurship Week in November
of 2014.
6 GEC2 —a new series to take deep-
dives into speci?c 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 staff
with experience in multiple regions and
languages.
As more of the world embraces their
entrepreneurs and the science of startups,
the role of Global Entrepreneurship Week
as the platform from which to ef?ciently
build teams, strengthen relationships
and develop a body of robust research
will become even more important. In the
weeks, months and years ahead, GEW will
continue to prove that a disparate collection
of players can indeed work well together—
advancing new ?rm formation and
legitimizing a solid pathway to job creation
WHAT IS GEW?
MORE THAN JUST THE
WORLD’S LARGEST
CELEBRATION
OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Global Entrepreneurship Week is an
expanding platform for connection and
collaboration that helps millions of people
unleash their ideas and turn them into
promising new ventures—solving global
challenges and strengthening economic
stability around the world.
During one week each November, more than
25,000 events, activities and competitions
in 140 countries connect participants to
potential collaborators, mentors and even
investors.
Millions who had never before considered
launching their own ventures soak up advice
and inspiration from the likes of Richard
Branson and Michael Dell. Thousands of
brand new startups spring to life through
bootcamps like Startup Weekend and
competitions like Startup Open. Hundreds
of universities strengthen connections that
help them commercialize research from
their labs. Researchers and policymakers
engage in discussions around the world to
examine the underlying policies necessary
to promote entrepreneurial growth. And
serial entrepreneurs share their expertise
and provide mentorship through a range of
programs.
Meanwhile, world leaders and local elected
of?cials alike have embraced the campaign
as they look to fuel the economic engine of
high-growth startups in their own countries
and communities. During 2013 alone,
126 heads of state and ministers from
69 countries participated by speaking at
activities during the Week, ?lming statements
of support or otherwise endorsing the
national campaigns in their countries.
The initiative launched in 2008 and has
quickly grown to more than 140 countries
with national campaigns hosted by a range of
organizations that reach new audiences, test
intervention methodologies and strengthen
their entrepreneurial ecosystems—giving rise
to the next generation of entrepreneurs and
empowering them to make their mark on the
world.
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140
9,925 25,621
6,630,292
#GEW
What is GEW?
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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With millions of participants in more countries than ever before, Global Entrepreneurship Week
continues to build on its historical success. But its true impact cannot be measured only by
simple metrics like the number of countries (140), partners (9,925) or activities (25,621). Creat-
ing lasting impact is a challenging task, does not happen overnight and is dif?cult to measure.
A 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation quanti?es the importance of connections and
shows that there is a strong link between knowing an entrepreneur and being one yourself.
More than one in three survey respondents who knew an entrepreneur were entrepreneurs
themselves. This reinforces what many of us already believed to be true—that entrepreneur-
ship is behavior learned in part through imitation.
That line of reasoning is the foundation for Global Entrepreneurship Week and why it focuses
on creating connections that build and strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems in communities
around the world. Global Entrepreneurship Week uses activities, events and competitions to
inspire nascent entrepreneurs and connect them with potential collaborators, mentors and
investors to help them start and scale. It also creates connections between startup com-
munities and policymakers that help shape policy environments conducive to entrepreneurial
growth. And it leverages the resources and reach of global brands in its national campaigns.
But to truly appreciate the far-reaching impact of GEW, it is best to look to the countries that
celebrate it. In Algeria, the Minister of Industry created a National Day of Entrepreneurship
to occur every November during GEW. The Angolan government created a new fund for
entrepreneurs and developed its ?rst national policy on entrepreneurship since achieving
independence in 1975. In Belgium, the Pulse Foundation is crediting GEW for the birth of a
national entrepreneurship community—overcoming a fragmented government that has con-
sidered entrepreneurship a regional issue. A pair of Brazilian governors, in São Paulo and
Minas Gerais, unveiled plans for new programs to support potential high-growth startups. Yo
Emprender reports in Costa Rica that the government provided $1.8 million in seed capital
to 13 entrepreneurs. In Georgia, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center
is collaborating with the government on new policies to promote entrepreneurship. Klak
Innovit credits international partnerships made through GEW with giving Iceland startups a
global mindset that will help them break out from their small home market. The GEW India
campaign worked to expand the pool of early-stage risk capital in the country by piloting a
training program for potential angel investors. The Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center
worked with the Indonesian Central Bank (BI) to launch a new program to train local entre-
preneurs in agribusiness and connect them with one of the biggest supermarket chains in
Indonesia. The now-annual SlumFest in Kenya is inspiring vulnerable youth in urban slums
and providing them with startup capital to launch new enterprises. In Lebanon, a new Life
Long Entrepreneurial Learning Program was launched by a GEW partner in collaboration with
the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. IT Park, a state-funded incubator in Mongo-
lia, is integrating GEW activities into its program for 300 startups. A relationship born from the
2012 GEC in Liverpool between Youth Business International and Enterprise Uganda resulted
in a new agreement to fund entrepreneurship training and mentoring support for 10,000 youth
in northern Uganda.
These are just a handful of examples that continue to surface from more than 140 countries.
As GEW continues to build and grow the entrepreneurial ecosystems in these countries, its
impact multiplies.
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ACCELERATING
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
EyeVerify Wins Global Title Belt
in Rotterdam
EyeVerify, a tech startup from Kansas
City with a software solution that veri?es
identity via a human eyeprint and
smartphone, delivered the knockout
pitch in the global ?nals of Get In the
Ring, a featured competition of Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
More than 1,000 startups across 32
countries competed for a shot at $1.3M
in potential angel investment. EyeVerify
defeated ?nalists from the Netherlands,
Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Canada,
Spain and the United Kingdom.
It was a busy week of pitching for
EyeVerify and its founder and CEO, Toby
Rush, who earlier in the week competed
in the U.S. national ?nals held at the
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and
immediately boarded a ?ight to Rotterdam
for the ?nals.
EyeVerify has developed a smartphone
technology that identi?es users by
pattern-matching blood vessels in the
whites of the eye. The technology creates
an “eyeprint” that is more accurate than
?ngerprint scanning. The technology
is compatible with virtually every
smartphone on the market.
Teddy the Guardian Doubles Up
During GEW
Teddy the Guardian, a completely organic
plush teddy bear that measures children’s
vital signs seamlessly as they play, had an
impressive Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The Croatian startup took top honors in
two featured competitions on the same
day.
Created by Josipa Majic and Ana Burica,
co-founders of iDerma, a tech startup in
Zagreb, Croatia, Teddy beat out startups
from 31 countries to be named the
winner of the 2013 Startup Open. The
competition, run by the organizers of
Global Entrepreneurship Week, identi?es
and recognizes the most promising young
?rms with a startup moment within the
past 12 months.
Teddy also emerged victorious at the
Creative Business Cup after out-pitching
startups in the creative industries from
36 countries at the global ?nals in
Copenhagen, Denmark. Prince Joachim
of Denmark handed out awards to the
prize winners, and Henrik Sass Larsen,
the Danish Minister for Business and
Growth, discussed the importance of the
creative industries to future economic
growth.
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Each Teddy bear has built-in medical
sensors that monitor a child’s heart rate,
body temperature and oxygen saturation.
Every time a child puts Teddy’s paw on his
forehead or hugs him, the bear’s sensors
detect values, record them and transmit
them in real time to a mobile app where
data is analyzed, visualized, managed and
downloaded by medical staff and parents.
“Earlier this summer, I had the pleasure
of meeting Croatian President Ivo
Josipovic and he stressed to me the
importance of instilling an entrepreneurial
mindset in the people of his country,”
said Jonathan Ortmans, president of
Global Entrepreneurship Week and a
senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
“He should know that he has a shining
example of innovation right in the capital
city.”
For the wins, Teddy the Guardian founder
Josipa Majic receives an all-expenses-
paid trip to Moscow, Russia, to serve
as an of?cial delegate to the Global
Entrepreneurship Congress in March
2014 as well as $20,000 in cash and a
free three-month stay at the GEW Startup
House in Kansas City’s Startup Village.
One Startup Open ?nalist from
Bangladesh, Soumik Aswad for Panacea,
won a runner-up prize of one year of
mentoring from successful entrepreneurs
courtesy of the Entrepreneurs’
Organization as well as a free 3-month
stay at the GEW Startup House. The
Dhaka-based startup’s mobile application
allows customers to verify the authenticity
of medication and pharmaceuticals—
an all-too-common problem with
counterfeiters in its native Bangladesh—
with a quick QR code scan.
Survey Provides Snapshot
of Policy Environment for
Entrepreneurs in 30 Countries
What do entrepreneurs in America have
in common with entrepreneurs in Qatar?
More than you might imagine, according
to a survey sponsored by the organizers of
Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The 2013 GEW Policy Survey results,
released by GEW co-creator and co-
sponsor, the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation, reveal both similarities
and differences among entrepreneurs
around the world in their perceptions
of entrepreneurial policies and other
resources. Participants were asked to
respond to 12 statements about their
experiences in the areas of regulation,
access to resources and entrepreneurial
environment.
The results begin to paint a picture of
the cultural and regulatory conditions
entrepreneurs experience around the globe.
“The survey was designed as an
experimental means of gathering
and publishing a standardized set
of information worldwide on the
entrepreneurial experience to inform
government policies,” said Dane Stangler,
vice president of Research and Policy at
the Kauffman Foundation. “The sample
size is large and dispersed enough to
indicate differences among regions and
nations that are both logical and, at least in
part, statistically signi?cant.”
In terms of their respective entrepreneurial
environments, respondents worldwide had
a slightly negative experience. However,
this varied among the eight different
regions represented: composite scores for
Australia & Oceania and for North America
were signi?cantly more positive while
scores for Latin America & Caribbean and
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Eastern Europe were signi?cantly more
negative.
Responses to the four statements
regarding regulation—including “the
process for registering a business with
the government is clear and easy” and
“public of?cials who regulate business are
competent and honest”—received the
lowest average scores. The most positive
response worldwide was to the resources-
related statement “entrepreneurs like me
have access to advisors and mentors who
can provide helpful guidance.” Interestingly,
the statements with the lowest average
scores also had the largest variances,
suggesting that entrepreneurship-related
regulations vary signi?cantly from country
to country.
Other survey ?ndings include:
Respondents from the Paci?c and South
Asian region had the highest percentage
of males (82.2 percent) and the lowest
average age (33.7 years). North America
had the lowest percentage of males (53
percent), while Western Europe had the
highest average age (40.5 years).
Of the countries surveyed, Qatar had the
highest (i.e. most positive) composite score
with 5.0, while Greece had the lowest
score with 2.5, the latter likely a re?ection
of that country’s recent economic woes.
Worldwide, access to advisors/mentors
(4.3) and fairness of competitors operating
in compliance with the law (4.3) were most
commonly rated positively. Tax laws were
most likely to be seen as impediments
(3.5) and courts perceived as not resolving
disagreements effectively (3.5).
A higher score on any one statement
increased the likelihood of a higher score
on every other statement, suggesting that
the elements of entrepreneurs’ experience
are synergistic—improvements in any
one are likely to be associated with
improvements in others.
The coef?cients for any one statement
and each other statement in the
same category (regulation, access to
resources, entrepreneurial environment)
are relatively high (between 0.32 and
0.64). In other words, improvements in
any one dimension of the entrepreneurial
experience tend to be associated with
other improvements in the same category.
“The results of this initial survey were both
informative and thought-provoking,” said
Jonathan Ortmans, president of Global
Entrepreneurship Week and a Kauffman
Foundation senior fellow. “We hope
these kinds of surveys along with other
efforts underway at GEW will help drive a
conversation between startup communities
and government policy advisors eager to
accelerate the pace of new ?rm formation
in their countries.”
Toronto Still Home to Global
Startup Battle Champion
For the second consecutive year, a startup
from Toronto came away victorious from
the Global Startup Battle, a competition
that takes more than 20,000 people from
over 200 cities and turns them into founder
teams to compete for $500,000 in prizes.
Pawly is “your dog’s friend,” a company
that provides a new way to interact with
pets. It is an app and accompanying chew
toy that the pet can play with while users
talk and interact using a smartphone. The
chew toy has a high de?nition camera and
video recorder with a built-in microphone
and speaker.
During the Startup Weekend Maker Edition
in Toronto during Global Entrepreneurship
Week, co-organizer Sunil Sharma said of
Pawly, “The Pawly team was an impressive
combination of robotics engineers,
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software developers and industrial and
graphic designers who literally printed and
assembled the parts of Pawly using the 3D
printers, laser cutters, wiring harnesses and
chipsets.” Sharma continued, “Robotics
is a very hot space right now, and I am
hopeful that they will continue with their
work and make a lasting company from
this fantastic start.”
For its efforts, the founding team received
$20,000 in match funding for Pawly’s
Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, a trip
to Google’s headquarters in San Francisco
for three Pawly members and a Google
hangout with a celebrity entrepreneur.
German Startup Promotes
Urban Farming, Wins Cleantech
Competition
ECF Farmsystems, a German startup
that builds aquaponic farm systems that
enable resource-ef?cient ?sh and vegetable
production in urban environments, took
?rst place in the Cleantech Open Global
Ideas Competition.
Orchestrated in conjunction with Global
Entrepreneurship Week, the annual
competition brings early-stage startups
with breakthrough cleantech ideas to
Silicon Valley to compete for a chance
at more than $100,000 worth of startup
services. All entries must be a startup with
less than $1 million from private third party
funding at the time of entry.
“It is a great recognition to be part of this
fantastic event,” said Nicolas Leschke,
CEO of ECF Farmsystems. “All cleantech
startups are winners because we dedicate
our lives to leaving a mark for future
generations.”
For the ?nals, 28 teams from around
the world convened in San Jose at the
Cleantech Open Global Forum, the
“Academy Awards of Cleantech,” which
marked the grand ?nale of this year’s
Cleantech Open Accelerator. Cleantech
innovators from Cape Verde, Lebanon,
Vietnam and beyond were beamed in via
videoconference.
After two days of intensive judging, ECF
Farmsystems was selected to be among
a group of ?ve national winners selected
to present to a ?nal jury of investors
and technology experts. Other ?nalists
include: Cibus (Costa Rica), Eternal Sun
(Netherlands), GreenSpense (Israel) and
Naked Energy (United Kingdom).
“As 14 to 24 percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions and 70 percent of
humanity’s fresh water usage are as
a direct result of agricultural activity,
ECF Farmsystems could have a major
impact far outside Germany,” said Kevin
Braithwaite, chair of the competition. “We
should be truly global in our search for
the most innovative solutions to the most
pressing environmental, economic and
social challenges facing our planet.”
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A global race to build the best startup ecosystem is going on, and it is a race that is open to
all types of economies and regions. Acknowledging an emerging collection of research and
data pointing to the potential of new and young ?rms, thought leaders and elected of?cials
at all levels alike have embraced Global Entrepreneurship Week—through proclamations as
well as participation—as they look to fuel the economic engine of high-growth startups in their
own countries and communities.
During November 2013, 126 heads of state and ministers from 69 countries participated in
Global Entrepreneurship Week, including:
ALGERIA
Mohamed Benmeradi, Minister of Industry, SMEs and Investment Promotion
BELARUS
Nikolai Snopkov, Minister of the Economy
BELGIUM
Kris Peeters, Minister-President of the Flanders Region
Sabine Laruelle, Minister of Self-Employed, SMEs and Agriculture
BENIN
Safou Idrissou Affo, Minister of Youth and Sports
BERMUDA
Michael Fahy, Minister for Home Affairs
Michael Dunkley, Minister for National Security
VIP ENGAGEMENT
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BHUTAN
Prime Minister Lyonchen Tshering Tobgay
Lyonpo Nima Sangay Tshempo, Minister of Labour and Human Resources
Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk, Minister for Economic Affairs
BULGARIA
President Rosen Plevneliev
Prime Minister Plamen Orecharski
CAMBODIA
Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport
Meng Saktheara, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts
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CAMEROON
Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, Minister for the Economy & National Planning
Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, Minister of SMEs, Social Economy and Handicrafts
Adoum Garoua, Minister of Youth Affairs
Zacharie Perevet, Minister of Employment and Professional Training
CANADA
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Chris Alexander, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Diane Finley, Minister of Public Works and Government Services
Jason Kenney, Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for
Multiculturalism
Maxime Bernier, Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism
Steve Kent, Minister of Municipal and Intergovernmental Affairs
CAPE VERDE
President Jorge Carlos Fonseca
Prime Minister José Maria Neves
Humberto Brito, Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy
Antonio Correia, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
CHINA
President Xi Jinping
CHINESE TAIPEI
Den-Yi Wu, Vice President of the Republic of China
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COLOMBIA
Santiago Rojas, Minister of Commerce and Industry
COSTA RICA
President Laura Chinchilla Miranda
Mayi Antillón, Minister of Economy Industry and Commerce
Gloria Abraham, Minister of Agriculture
COTE D’IVOIRE
Jean Louis Billon, Minister of Trade
Alain Logognon, Minister of Youth and Sport
CROATIA
President Ivo Josipovic
Gordon Maras, Minister of Entrepreneurship & Craft
CYPRUS
Andri Anastasiades, First Lady of Cyprus
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jiri Cienciala, Minister of Industry and Trade
Dalibor Štys, Minister of Education
DOMINICA
Prime Minister Ambrose George (acting)
Justina Charles, Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Ligia Amada Melo, Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
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EGYPT
Osama Saleh, Minister of Investment
ETHIOPIA
Mekuria Haile, Minister of Urban Development
GERMANY
Philipp Rösler, Minister of Economics and Technology
GREENLAND
Jens-Erik Kirkegaard, Minister of Industry & Mineral Resources
GUATEMALA
President Otto Pérez Molina
Sergio De la Torre, Minister of Economy
HUNGARY
János Martonyi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Zoltán Cséfalvay, Minister of State for National Economy
ICELAND
Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, Minister of Industry and Innovation
INDONESIA
Sjarifuddin Hasan, Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises
Ir . H. Suswono, Minister for Agriculture
M.A.S. Hikam, Minister of State for Research and Technology
IRELAND
Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny
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ISRAEL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Gideon Sa’ar, Minister of the Interior
Eugene Kandel, Head of the National Economic Council
ITALY
Emma Bonino, Minister of Foreign Affairs
JAMAICA
Lisa Hanna, Minister of Youth & Culture
Anthony Hylton, Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce
KAZAKHSTAN
Bakytzhan Sagintaev, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development
KENYA
Adan Mohammed, Minister of Industrialization and Enterprise Development
LATVIA
Daniels Pavluts, Minister of Economics
LEBANON
Nicolas Sahnaoui, Minister of Telecommunications
MACEDONIA
Vele Samak, Minister for Attracting Foreign Investments
MADAGASCAR
Botozaza Pierrot, Deputy Prime Minister for Economy and Industry
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MALTA
Chris Cardona, Minister for the Economy, Investment and Small Business
Evarist Bartolo, Minister for Education and Employment
MAURITIUS
Xavier Duval, Vice-Prime Minister & Minister of Finance
J. Seetaram, Minister of Business, Enterprise and Cooperatives
MONACO
Michel Roger, Minister of State
Jean Castellini, Minister for Economy and Finance
MONGOLIA
Battulga Khaltmaa, Minister of Industry and Agriculture
MOZAMBIQUE
Fernando Sumbana Junior, Minister of Youth
Armando Inroga, Minister of Industry and Trade
NAMIBIA
Nahas Angula, Minister of Defense
David Namwandi, Minister of Education
NEW ZEALAND
Prime Minister John Key
NIGERIA
Olusegun Olutoyin Aganga, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment
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OMAN
Ali bin Massoud Al Sunaidy, Minister of Commerce and Industry
PAKISTAN
Ahsan Iqbal, Minister for Planning and Development
PALESTINE
Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa
Ahmad Majdalani, Minister of Labor
M. Osama Abdel Halim, Minister of IT
Jawad Naji, Minister of National Economy
PARAGUAY
David Ocampos, Minister of Information Technology & Communications
PERU
Raul Diez Canseco, Former Vice President of Peru
PHILIPPINES
President Benigno Aquino
Vice President Jejomar Binay
POLAND
Janusz Piechocinski, Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Economy
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PORTUGAL
President Anibal Cavaco Silva
Assunção Cristas, Minister of Agriculture and Sea
Manuel Pinto de Abreu, Secretary of State of the Sea
RWANDA
Robert Bayigamba, Minister of Sports and Culture
Francois Kanimba, Minister of Trade and Industry
SAUDI ARABIA
Tawfq Al Rabiah, Minister of Commerce and Industry
Adel bin Mohammad Fakeih, Minister of Labor
SPAIN
Prince Felipe de Bourbon
President Mariano Rajoy
ST. LUCIA
Dame Pearlette Louisy, Governor General
Prime Minister Kenny Anthony (also Minister of Finance)
Phillip Pierre, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure Port Services & Transport
Emma Hippolyte, Minister of Commerce, Business Development, Investment &
Consumer Affairs
Lorne Theophilus, Minister for Tourism, Heritage and the Creative Industries
Alvina Reynolds, Minister of Health and Wellness
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ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES
Stevenson Frederick, Minister of Youth
SWAZILAND
Deputy Prime Minister Paul Dlamini
Phineas Magugala, Minister of Education and Training
Gideon Dlamini, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Trade
David Ndlangamandla, Minister of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs
SWEDEN
Annie Lööf, Minister for Enterprise
Lena Ek, Minister for the Environment
TOGO
Bernadette Palouki Legzim, Minister of Trade and Private Sector Promotion
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
President Anthony Thomas Aquinas Carmona
Bhoendradatt Tewarie, Minister of Planning and Sustainable Development
Errol McLeod, Minister of Labour and Small and Micro Enterprise Development
TURKEY
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy
UGANDA
Henry Kajura, Minister of State for Finance
UNITED KINGDOM
Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
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UNITED STATES
President Barack Obama
ZIMBABWE
Savior Kasukuwere, Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment
Josiah Hungwe, Minister of Psychomotor Activities
Sithembiso Nyoni, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprise Development
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Led by a long-standing partnership with Dell, Global Entrepreneurship Week is supported
by an impressive collection of global brands. Dell continues to be actively involved, providing
support to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress and, among other things, announcing the
expansion of its Center for Entrepreneurs with a new of?ce in London during Global Entrepre-
neurship Week and plans to open new of?ces around the world in 2014.
Examples of other major brands that support GEW through its national campaigns and activi-
ties include (in alphabetical order)
BRAND
ENGAGEMENT
27 A World of Impact
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Rio de Janeiro is known for an abundance of sun and surf—and over-the-top celebration
during Carnival—but for one week in March 2013 it was home to a different kind of festival
that continued the evolution of the Global Entrepreneurship Week movement.
More than 2,000 people from 119 countries gathered in Rio for the latest Global
Entrepreneurship Congress—turning the gathering into a festival for startups and those
that support their growth around the world. It became clear that a new chapter in
entrepreneurship thinking had begun as two worlds have come together driven by a
profound awareness of the impact of entrepreneurship. Earnest governments anxious to
support the right program and pull the right policy levers are now interacting and even
collaborating with the grassroots networks and communities driving the emergence of
GLOBAL ENTREPRNEURSHIP
CONGRESS
29 A World of Impact
smarter ecosystems that support the
starting and scaling of new high-growth
?rms across the planet.
Serial entrepreneurs and investors like Brad
Feld of TechStars and Dave McClure of
500 Startups mixed with government
of?cials like Alexei Komissarov of the
Moscow City Government and Alessandro
Fusacchia from the Italian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. The two government
of?cials are leading efforts in their
respective countries to promote
entrepreneurial growth—and part of those
efforts were to host the Global
Entrepreneurship Congress in Moscow
(March 2014) and Milan (March 2015).
That commitment from the top-down
demonstrates a new approach that mirrors
the iterative processes that a lot of startups
go through: experimenting with policies
and programs to ?nd out which are the
most effective at generating de?ned
objectives in terms of economic growth
and job creation. Further, like today’s
generation of startup creators,
policymakers are looking to the global
stage for ideas and expertise, seeking best
practices and bridges with other nations
that are successfully nurturing their
entrepreneurship ecosystems.
In Rio, all startup ecosystem players were
sharing a common platform for the ?rst
time. It was a shift in the frontier of the
entrepreneurship ?eld that has not come
easy. When the Kauffman Foundation
hosted the ?rst Global Entrepreneurship
Congress in Kansas City in 2009, the
mission was to support the grassroots
startup champions behind the Global
Entrepreneurship Week movement. But
much more has been accomplished
through the synergies that formed at each
following GEC. Dubai, Shanghai and
Liverpool made their own contributions
prior to Rio and more will follow with fresh
assessments of pro-entrepreneurship
efforts including better-targeted programs
and even new data for better-informed
policies.
The Future Begins in
Moscow
In hosting the 2014 Congress, Moscow is
determined to prove that it can be as
powerful as San Francisco or London in
terms of a vibrant startup culture. While the
Russian capital has been popping up in
recent ‘startup scene’ lists in publications like
Wired and TechCrunch, its decision to host
the GEC is already proof of a growing
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
self-con?dence in the potential of its own
entrepreneurship ecosystem—an ecosystem
that is getting strong support from the top
from Komissarov and the city’s Department
of Science, Industrial Policy and
Entrepreneurship.
Held at the Moscow Manege, steps from the
Kremlin and Red Square, the Congress
features two main sessions—the Research +
Policy Summit and the Start + Scale
Forum—against the backdrop of more than
45 of?cial fringe events with hundreds of
speakers that provide educational and
networking opportunities as well as a unique
window into successful Russian models with
potential for being replicated.
New global efforts are taking their ?rst steps
in Moscow. One example is the Global
Entrepreneurship Research Network, a
collaboration of research organizations
founded by the Kauffman Foundation,
Endeavor Insight and World Bank, which
comes together for the ?rst time to generate
useful and actionable knowledge for
entrepreneurs, policymakers and others.
Other ?rsts launched from the GEC in
Moscow: a new coalition to promote
entrepreneurship in the creative industries; a
new experiential, problem-based learning
program on the fundamental aspects of
entrepreneurial thinking; and, a new GEC
event—GEC
2
scheduled for September
2014 in Croatia—that ?lls a need for more
in-depth collaboration by taking deep-dives
into speci?c topics.
Like the host cities before it, Moscow has
once again risen the bar.
As the Global Entrepreneurship Congress
and related efforts continue, they bring clarity
to the ?eld of entrepreneurship, fostering
productive discussions that reveal additional
strengths—as well as weaknesses—in
entrepreneurship ecosystems that yield
important insights to help us all bring new
ideas to life.
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GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK
GEW Hosts come together in
Rio de Janeiro for the 2013
Global Entrepreneurship
Congress.
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33
GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WEEK 2013
A GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
NETWORK
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works to advance an
entrepreneurial society in which job creation, innovation and the economy
?ourish. It has an extensive Research & Policy program and also works
with leading educators, researchers and other partners to further
understanding of the powerful economic impact of entrepreneurship, to
train the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and to improve the
environment in which entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
support from
powered by
GEW GLOBAL
35 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
LEADERSHIP
GLOBAL BOARD
Donna Harris Co-founder, 1776
Jeff Hoffman Founder, ColorJar
Rebeca Hwang Managing Partner, Rivet Ventures
Jonathan Ortmans President, Global Entrepreneurship Week
Erik Pages Founder and President, EntreWorks Consulting
GEW GLOBAL PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Jonathan Ortmans President
Mark Marich Executive Vice President
Alan Simensky Chief Financial Offcer
Büke Çuhadar Vice President
Cristina Fernandez Director for Policy & Research Initiatives
Alana Ramo Director for Strategic Partnerships
Nick Vilelle Director for African Initiatives
Charlotte Lamontagne Communications Associate
Britney Wright Digital Associate
Hope Grauel Strategic Projects Associate
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
The strength of the Global
Entrepreneurship Week network lies in the
collection of host organizations guiding
the national campaigns in each of the
140 participating countries. These hosts
are accelerating the growth of inclusive
ecosystems by catalyzing partnerships with
a diverse range of players—entrepreneurs,
investors, researchers, educators,
policymakers, the media and more—and
rallying the network to conduct events and
activities during Global Entrepreneurship
Week.
Host organizations emerge from a
range of backgrounds—from startup
community groups to university
entrepreneurship centers to government
agencies and others active throughout
the year in shaping the next generation of
entrepreneurs.
OUR HOSTS
THE ORGANIZATIONS
THAT MAKE IT HAPPEN
37 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
YOUTH SUPPORT 40%
BUSINESS SUPPORT 37%
STARTUP CREATION 24%
GOVERNMENT 14%
FOUNDATION 10%
UNIVERSITY 9%
BUSINESS 4%
HOSTS BY TYPE
Government Agency | Program
Startup Creation | Growth Groups
Business Support Groups
Business | Proft or Nonproft
University | Academic Institution or Program
Youth Support Organization
Foundation
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Fortifying the engagement of thousands of
local partners holding events and activities
during Global Entrepreneurship Week is a
collection of Global Partners and Supporters
that bring a wealth of expertise, experience
and energy to the initiative.
The following organizations contribute to
Global Entrepreneurship Week in a variety
of ways: creating founder teams that
launch startups, providing hosts of national
campaigns, contributing mentors to guide
nascent entrepreneurs, running high-pro?le
competitions, engaging in substantive
discussions and more to further the ?eld of
entrepreneurship.
OUR GLOBAL
PARTNERS AND
SUPPORTERS
DELL
with additional support from
Endeavor
Entrepreneurs’ Organization
JA Worldwide
Youth Business International
Startup Weekend
Center for International Private
Enterprise
LIONS@FRICA
Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship
Youth Employment Network
MIT Enterprise Forum
Aspen Network of Development
Entrepreneurs
International Labour Organization
YEC Global
39 A Global Entrepreneurship Network
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Each year, we are expanding
our network and bringing new
opportunities to aspiring and
experienced entrepreneurs
alike. This map indicates the
140 participating countries
in Global Entrepreneurship
Week 2013.
OUR REACH
MAPPING OUR PROGRESS AROUND
THE GLOBE
41
Over the following pages, you will
fnd relevant facts and fgures about
the countries involved in Global
Entrepreneurship Week.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Opportunities Albania Albania 11 8 1,000
NAPEO Algeria 210 720 69,200
Angolan Forum for Competitive Knowledge Innovation & Development Angola 4 4 700
Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center Antigua 1 3 25
Endeavor Argentina Argentina 45 40 38,500
Armenia StartUp Cup Armenia 10 10 1,200
The FRANK Team Australia 30 220 11,000
IFTE Austria 25 23 2,500
Young Arab Leaders - Bahrain Bahrain ** ** **
Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders League Bangladesh 16 37 80,000
Barbados Youth Business Trust Barbados 39 37 23,053
BELBIZ Belarus 17 47 18,000
Pulse Foundation Belgium 41 52 25,500
FORAM Initiatives Benin 3 3 2,944
Bermuda Economic Development Corporation Bermuda 11 14 1,292
loden Foundation Bhutan 9 25 820
Red Bolivia Emprendedora Bolivia 32 76 62,000
Association for Promotion of Entrepreneurship
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
3 3 230
Endeavor Brazil Brazil 598 4,127 1,678,250
Junior Achievement Bulgaria Bulgaria 5 150 5,000
Association pour la Promotion, le Soutien et le Suivi de l’Investissement Privé (APSIP) Burkina Faso 15 20 3,550
Youth Action for Development Burundi 5 5 2,350
Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia Cambodia ** ** **
Youth Business Cameroon Cameroon 15 32 6,425
Canadian Youth Business Foundation Canada 170 595 25,226
AJEC Cape Verde 75 190 12,982
Endeavor Chile Chile 10 20 17,000
Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates China 50 198 92,396
43 Our Reach: Country Metrics
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Opportunities Albania Albania 11 8 1,000
NAPEO Algeria 210 720 69,200
Angolan Forum for Competitive Knowledge Innovation & Development Angola 4 4 700
Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center Antigua 1 3 25
Endeavor Argentina Argentina 45 40 38,500
Armenia StartUp Cup Armenia 10 10 1,200
The FRANK Team Australia 30 220 11,000
IFTE Austria 25 23 2,500
Young Arab Leaders - Bahrain Bahrain ** ** **
Young Entrepreneurs & Leaders League Bangladesh 16 37 80,000
Barbados Youth Business Trust Barbados 39 37 23,053
BELBIZ Belarus 17 47 18,000
Pulse Foundation Belgium 41 52 25,500
FORAM Initiatives Benin 3 3 2,944
Bermuda Economic Development Corporation Bermuda 11 14 1,292
loden Foundation Bhutan 9 25 820
Red Bolivia Emprendedora Bolivia 32 76 62,000
Association for Promotion of Entrepreneurship
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
3 3 230
Endeavor Brazil Brazil 598 4,127 1,678,250
Junior Achievement Bulgaria Bulgaria 5 150 5,000
Association pour la Promotion, le Soutien et le Suivi de l’Investissement Privé (APSIP) Burkina Faso 15 20 3,550
Youth Action for Development Burundi 5 5 2,350
Young Entrepreneurs Association of Cambodia Cambodia ** ** **
Youth Business Cameroon Cameroon 15 32 6,425
Canadian Youth Business Foundation Canada 170 595 25,226
AJEC Cape Verde 75 190 12,982
Endeavor Chile Chile 10 20 17,000
Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates China 50 198 92,396
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Youth Career Development Association Headquarters, R.O.C Chinese Taipei 32 33 25,897
Endeavor Colombia Colombia 92 257 69,209
Youth Entrepreneurship & Sustainability DR Congo Congo, DRC 10 3 5,000
Yo Emprendedor Costa Rica 21 35 12,000
Startup Initiative Côte d’ivoire 4 3 250
Croatian Small Business Union (HUMP-CROSBU) Croatia 9 37 200,100
Industry Disruptors - Game Changers Cyprus 6 6 900
European Leadership & Academic Institute Czech Republic 25 37 3,000
Danish Business Authority Denmark 33 257 42,607
Dominica Youth Business Trust Dominica 3 12 790
Emprende / Dominica Incuba Dominican Republic 14 51 3,552
Fundación Emprender Ecuador 156 312 103,521
MSCBE Egypt 21 101 12,000
FUSADES El Salvador 12 14 3,200
Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu Estonia ** ** **
Empact Capital Ethiopia 12 15 16,450
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Finland 12 16 1,700
Citizen Entrepreneurs France 100 100 100,000
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre Georgia 17 27 930
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Germany 821 1,900 51,000
Youth Enhancement International Ghana 50 60 205,000
OESYNE - Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs Greece 16 18 1,000
Startup Greenland Greenland 1 4 150
Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center, Francisco Marroquin University Guatemala 21 40 2,750
Guyana Youth Business Trust Guyana 6 8 250
Junior Achievement Honduras Honduras 15 15 15,700
FIVOSZ - Young Entrepreneurs Association Hungary Hungary 1 73 13,000
Klak Innovit Iceland 5 11 600
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (IIM Ahmedabad) India 63 171 12,750
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
45 Our Reach: Country Metrics
Youth Career Development Association Headquarters, R.O.C Chinese Taipei 32 33 25,897
Endeavor Colombia Colombia 92 257 69,209
Youth Entrepreneurship & Sustainability DR Congo Congo, DRC 10 3 5,000
Yo Emprendedor Costa Rica 21 35 12,000
Startup Initiative Côte d’ivoire 4 3 250
Croatian Small Business Union (HUMP-CROSBU) Croatia 9 37 200,100
Industry Disruptors - Game Changers Cyprus 6 6 900
European Leadership & Academic Institute Czech Republic 25 37 3,000
Danish Business Authority Denmark 33 257 42,607
Dominica Youth Business Trust Dominica 3 12 790
Emprende / Dominica Incuba Dominican Republic 14 51 3,552
Fundación Emprender Ecuador 156 312 103,521
MSCBE Egypt 21 101 12,000
FUSADES El Salvador 12 14 3,200
Centre for Entrepreneurship, University of Tartu Estonia ** ** **
Empact Capital Ethiopia 12 15 16,450
Aalto Entrepreneurship Society Finland 12 16 1,700
Citizen Entrepreneurs France 100 100 100,000
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre Georgia 17 27 930
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Germany 821 1,900 51,000
Youth Enhancement International Ghana 50 60 205,000
OESYNE - Federation of Hellenic Associations of Young Entrepreneurs Greece 16 18 1,000
Startup Greenland Greenland 1 4 150
Kirzner Entrepreneurship Center, Francisco Marroquin University Guatemala 21 40 2,750
Guyana Youth Business Trust Guyana 6 8 250
Junior Achievement Honduras Honduras 15 15 15,700
FIVOSZ - Young Entrepreneurs Association Hungary Hungary 1 73 13,000
Klak Innovit Iceland 5 11 600
Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship (IIM Ahmedabad) India 63 171 12,750
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center Indonesia 5 5 500
IEA Iran 14 10 2,200
Think Ireland Inc Ireland 3 120 5,400
Global Entrepreneurship Week Israel Israel 65 424 24,655
META Group Italy 18 53 5,700
Junior Achievement Jamaica Jamaica 11 13 1,625
IMPACT Japan Japan 9 18 900
Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship Jordan 28 45 3,011
Young Entrepreneurs Club of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 60 57 10,481
Junior Achievement Kenya Kenya 12 5 21,000
Innovation Center Kosovo Kosovo 16 13 3,500
Central Asian Free Market Institute Kyrgyzstan 8 12 942
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia 6 6 1,850
Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program Lebanon 50 40 1,700
Silatech Libya 15 15 600
ISM University of Management and Economics Lithuania 15 80 6,500
YES Foundation Macedonia 11 7 374
Habaka Madagascar Innovation Hub Madagascar 3 13 6,600
StartupMalaysia.org Malaysia 1 10 5,600
Jokkolabs Bamako Mali 4 4 90
The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta Malta 6 7 1,000
Empretec Mauritius Mauritius 12 69 183,835
Endeavor Mexico & Impulsa / JA Mexico Mexico 284 1,334 218,974
Invento Moldova 24 27 1,000
JCI Monaco Monaco 1 2 200
SWMongolia Mongolia 6 5 600
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Montenegro 2 5 100
CEED Morocco Morocco 38 47 2,000
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center Indonesia 5 5 500
IEA Iran 14 10 2,200
Think Ireland Inc Ireland 3 120 5,400
Global Entrepreneurship Week Israel Israel 65 424 24,655
META Group Italy 18 53 5,700
Junior Achievement Jamaica Jamaica 11 13 1,625
IMPACT Japan Japan 9 18 900
Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship Jordan 28 45 3,011
Young Entrepreneurs Club of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 60 57 10,481
Junior Achievement Kenya Kenya 12 5 21,000
Innovation Center Kosovo Kosovo 16 13 3,500
Central Asian Free Market Institute Kyrgyzstan 8 12 942
Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia 6 6 1,850
Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program Lebanon 50 40 1,700
Silatech Libya 15 15 600
ISM University of Management and Economics Lithuania 15 80 6,500
YES Foundation Macedonia 11 7 374
Habaka Madagascar Innovation Hub Madagascar 3 13 6,600
StartupMalaysia.org Malaysia 1 10 5,600
Jokkolabs Bamako Mali 4 4 90
The Edward de Bono Institute, University of Malta Malta 6 7 1,000
Empretec Mauritius Mauritius 12 69 183,835
Endeavor Mexico & Impulsa / JA Mexico Mexico 284 1,334 218,974
Invento Moldova 24 27 1,000
JCI Monaco Monaco 1 2 200
SWMongolia Mongolia 6 5 600
Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Montenegro 2 5 100
CEED Morocco Morocco 38 47 2,000
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Empresa Junior Mozambique 9 1 197
Project Hub Yangon Myanmar 9 9 570
Junior Achievement Namibia Namibia 12 21 726,226
INCON Nepal 7 4 2,002
Stichting GEW Nederland Netherlands 42 217 25,000
GEW/NZ New Zealand 53 35 1,533
Axeltec Foundation Nicaragua 6 10 600
Enterprise Development Centre Nigeria 39 52 363,300
Gründernes Hus AS Norway 22 80 5,100
Zajil Oasis LLC Oman 20 27 3,000
Alternate Solutions Pakistan 100 30 13,000
Palestine for a New Beginning Palestine 49 31 2,432
Junior Achievement of Panama Panama 27 49 824
Fundacion Paraguaya Paraguay 45 55 18,820
British Peruvian Chamber of Commerce Peru 10 56 3,450
Young Entrepreneur Society - Philippines Philippines 60 164 15,016
Youth Forum Lewiatan Poland 2,206 2,225 82,419
APBA / SEDES Portugal 50 70 37,500
Silatech Qatar 33 62 3,900
Junior Achievement Romania Romania 11 14 55,000
Center for Entrepreneurship Russia 368 900 171,110
Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center Rwanda 50 50 7,500
St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture St. Lucia 37 51 78,567
Qotuf AlRiyadah Saudi Arabia 9 8 6,250
Jokkolabs Senegal 31 13 6,607
Mokra Gora School of Management Serbia 7 3 7,070
MoneyTree Asia Pacifc Singapore ** ** **
Shaqodoon Somalia ** ** **
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Empresa Junior Mozambique 9 1 197
Project Hub Yangon Myanmar 9 9 570
Junior Achievement Namibia Namibia 12 21 726,226
INCON Nepal 7 4 2,002
Stichting GEW Nederland Netherlands 42 217 25,000
GEW/NZ New Zealand 53 35 1,533
Axeltec Foundation Nicaragua 6 10 600
Enterprise Development Centre Nigeria 39 52 363,300
Gründernes Hus AS Norway 22 80 5,100
Zajil Oasis LLC Oman 20 27 3,000
Alternate Solutions Pakistan 100 30 13,000
Palestine for a New Beginning Palestine 49 31 2,432
Junior Achievement of Panama Panama 27 49 824
Fundacion Paraguaya Paraguay 45 55 18,820
British Peruvian Chamber of Commerce Peru 10 56 3,450
Young Entrepreneur Society - Philippines Philippines 60 164 15,016
Youth Forum Lewiatan Poland 2,206 2,225 82,419
APBA / SEDES Portugal 50 70 37,500
Silatech Qatar 33 62 3,900
Junior Achievement Romania Romania 11 14 55,000
Center for Entrepreneurship Russia 368 900 171,110
Babson-Rwanda Entrepreneurship Center Rwanda 50 50 7,500
St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture St. Lucia 37 51 78,567
Qotuf AlRiyadah Saudi Arabia 9 8 6,250
Jokkolabs Senegal 31 13 6,607
Mokra Gora School of Management Serbia 7 3 7,070
MoneyTree Asia Pacifc Singapore ** ** **
Shaqodoon Somalia ** ** **
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 Impact Report
Endeavor South Africa South Africa 94 50 4,500
Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation South Korea 98 13 400
IESE Business School Spain 80 230 20,000
Young Entrepreneurs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 67 67 5,802
Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Livelihoods St. Kitts & Nevis 2 2 25
Youth Business Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
2 7 1,512
Women’s Business Group Foundation Suriname ** ** **
Junior Achievement Swaziland Swaziland 16 35 1,935
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute Sweden 108 211 11,700
ZAYEE Tanzania 7 7 500
Ayana Co Ltd - Global Entrepreneurship Thailand Thailand 28 33 8,200
American Chamber of Commerce, The Gambia The Gambia 3 5 501
Initiatives des Jeunes pour le Développement (IJD) Togo 6 4 15,580
Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad & Tobago 17 26 2,398
The Arab Institute Of Business Managers (IACE) Tunisia 105 161 94,085
Endeavor Turkey Turkey 200 185 80,000
Enterprise Uganda Uganda 27 37 50,570
Association of Socio-Economic Strategies and Partnerships Ukraine 20 28 1,842
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab
Emirates
7 12 200
Youth Business International United Kingdom 633 3,240 347,000
Endeavor Uruguay Uruguay 13 16 2,232
GEW/USA United States 1,247 4,115 713,326
Ecosistema Nacional de Emprendimiento Venezuela 42 134 31,575
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vietnam 13 9 450
Youth Leadership Development Foundation Yemen 2 1 20
ELIF Business SolutionsLtd. / SME Toolkit Zambia Zambia 15 20 600
Empretec Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 6 15 3,500
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
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Endeavor South Africa South Africa 94 50 4,500
Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation South Korea 98 13 400
IESE Business School Spain 80 230 20,000
Young Entrepreneurs Sri Lanka Sri Lanka 67 67 5,802
Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Livelihoods St. Kitts & Nevis 2 2 25
Youth Business Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
2 7 1,512
Women’s Business Group Foundation Suriname ** ** **
Junior Achievement Swaziland Swaziland 16 35 1,935
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research Institute Sweden 108 211 11,700
ZAYEE Tanzania 7 7 500
Ayana Co Ltd - Global Entrepreneurship Thailand Thailand 28 33 8,200
American Chamber of Commerce, The Gambia The Gambia 3 5 501
Initiatives des Jeunes pour le Développement (IJD) Togo 6 4 15,580
Youth Business Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad & Tobago 17 26 2,398
The Arab Institute Of Business Managers (IACE) Tunisia 105 161 94,085
Endeavor Turkey Turkey 200 185 80,000
Enterprise Uganda Uganda 27 37 50,570
Association of Socio-Economic Strategies and Partnerships Ukraine 20 28 1,842
Higher Colleges of Technology
United Arab
Emirates
7 12 200
Youth Business International United Kingdom 633 3,240 347,000
Endeavor Uruguay Uruguay 13 16 2,232
GEW/USA United States 1,247 4,115 713,326
Ecosistema Nacional de Emprendimiento Venezuela 42 134 31,575
Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Vietnam 13 9 450
Youth Leadership Development Foundation Yemen 2 1 20
ELIF Business SolutionsLtd. / SME Toolkit Zambia Zambia 15 20 600
Empretec Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 6 15 3,500
Host Organization Country Partners Activities Participants
Plans are being drawn up now for GEW 2014. If you or your
organization would like to be involved at any level, from
organizing an activity in your country, to signing up as a
sponsor or becoming a supporter, we’d love to hear from you.
To learn more or to become a part of GEW, visit gew.co or
email Hope Grauel at [email protected].
Key Upcoming GEW Global Meetings & Dates:
Global Entrepreneurship Congress
Moscow, Russia | March 17 - 20, 2014
GEW Middle East Meetup
Athens, Greece | May 8 - 14, 2014
GEC²: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Zagreb, Split & Dubrovnik, Croatia | September 22 - 26, 2014
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014
November 17 - 23, 2014
GEW Startup Nations Summit
Seoul, Korea | November 23 - 25, 2014
Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2015
Milan, Italy | March 16 - 19, 2015
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015
November 16 - 22, 2015
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016
November 14 - 20, 2016
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