Ahead of Global Entrepreneurship Week (17-23 November) with the 2025 theme #TogetherWeBuild GEN UK Chair, Marc Ortmans, was honoured to speak at the 5th World Business Women Summit held at the House of Lords. Savvitas led by Helene Martin Gee and Sue Lawton MBE convened women leaders, entrepreneurs, policymakers, changemakers and male allies to set out [...]
Its last call for UK start and scale entrepreneurs to enter the 2025 Entrepreneurship World Cup before 30th June. The programme offers a chance to pitch on a global stage for a share of $1.5 million in prizes plus additional investment opportunities and growth support. EWC elevates entrepreneurs from all stages and sectors — idea-stage, [...]
This summer ministers, ecosystem builders, researchers, policy makers and investors will convene in Indianapolis for the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. Hosted by the Global Entrepreneurship Network in a different rising entrepreneurial city each year, the Congress gathers thousands of delegates from 200 countries to share and strengthen innovative approaches to empowering entrepreneurs everywhere. Over the course of [...]
A special message to entrepreneurs was shared by Jonathan Ortmans, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network to mark the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2024, the world’s largest festival of entrepreneurship. This week 10 million people will participate in 40,000 events across 200 countries. Hundreds of events and activities are taking place across the UK [...]
Oxentia and Accelerate Estonia are hosting a Pitch Day on 1st October to find the most promising UK startups that are facing regulatory barriers to growth. Could you benefit from Estonia’s fast and agile regulatory environment to help move your business and product development forward? If so apply before 15 September. Benefits include testing and [...]
GEN and Startup Genome launch GSER 2024 ranking the Top 40 ecosystems and Top 100 Emerging Ecosystems from around the world at London Tech Week. Highlights from the report: Silicon Valley top, with New York City and London tied for 2nd. Seoul now ranked 9, entering the Top 10 ecosystems this year. Tokyo enters Top 10, [...]
We are three weeks out from GEC+Puerto Rico! Explore the program and speakers. Founders, investors, entrepreneurship ecosystem builders, policymakers, researchers are coming together to explore an ambitious roadmap for a more vibrant and thriving economy by 2035. Join us at this year's defining event for the entrepreneurship ecosystem across Latin America and the Caribbean in sunny [...]
GEN will be presenting a special session on Sustainability and Entrepreneurship on 16th May as part of Global Startup Program at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024. SusHi Tech is the largest innovation summit in Asia and is taking place at Japan's largest convention centre, Tokyo Big Sight. Our panelists include President, Global Entrepreneurship Network, Jonathan Ortmans, Founder [...]
Today is #EarthDay2024 More than 380 million tons of virgin plastic is produced every year and less than 9% of it is being recycled. In fact we have create over 8 billion tons of plastic over the years and most of it is now in the sea, ground, animals and yes, us. And each year we [...]
Staged in the Egyptian Room of Mansion House, London, Charlotte Keenan presented the latest excellent Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses report. Generation Growth - The Small Business Manifesto reveals insights across a wide range of topics from 566 small business owners. The report is a valuable roadmap to inform the next government of what UK business [...]
