GEW Magazine issue 1

And the winner was… Impact - GEW 2013 A tech startup from Kansas walked away with the global Get in the Ring title belt in Rotterdam GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Kansas startup EyeVerify, won the GITR 2013 international final with a pitch for their A German startup won the 2013 Cleantech competition ECF Farmsystems, a German startup that builds aquaponic farm systems that enable resource-efficient fish and vegetable production in urban environments, took first place in the Cleantech Open Global Ideas competition. 2013 - What a week that was Global Entrepreneurship Congress The impact of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 was unprecedented 2013, not surprisingly, was the biggest yet in pure numbers. But it was also the biggest in terms of impact too with significant changes occurring all over the world. Here are just some of the effects the world’s biggest enterprise event has had over the last 12 months: 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 first national policy on entrepreneurship since independence in 1975. In Belgium, the Pulse Foundation credits GEW for the birth of a national entrepreneurship community, overcoming a fragmented government Page 4 GEW Magazine by piloting a training program for potential angel investors. Two Brazilian governors, in São Paulo and Minas Gerais, unveiled plans for new programs to support potential high growth startups. The Universitas Ciputra Entrepreneurship Center worked with the Indonesian Central Bank (BI) to launch a new program to train local entrepreneurs in agribusiness and connect them with one of the biggest supermarket chains in Indonesia. In Costa Rica, host Yo Emprendedor reports that the government provided $1.8 million in seed capital to 13 entrepreneurs. The Georgian Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center is collaborating with the government on new policies to promote entrepreneurship. Innovation centre Klak Innovit credits international partnerships made through GEW with giving startups in Iceland a global mindset that will help them break out from their small home market. The GEW India campaign expanded the pool of early-stage risk capital 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. The now-annual SlumFest in Kenya is inspiring vulnerable youths 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 Mongolia, is integrating GEW activities into its program for 300 startups. 126 The number of heads of state and ministers from 69 countries who participated in Global Entrepreneurship Week, November 2013. Promotional Feature. © Copyright (2014) of Watershed Media Ltd. E that has considered entrepreneurship a regional issue. smartphone on the market. Leading up to the final, more than 1,000 startups across 32 countries competed for a shot at $1.3M in potential angel investment but EyeVerify battled through, delivering their knockout pitch during GEW. 2013 Cleantech award WEEK very year GEW gets bigger: More participants take part in more activities in more countries supported by more partners. software solution that verifies identity via the human eye. EyeVerify identifies users by pattern-matching blood vessels in the whites of the eye, creating an “eyeprint” that is more accurate than fingerprint scanning, with technology that is compatible with virtually every The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) is a gathering of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, thought leaders and policymakers, all working together to help bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare. Over the past six years, GEC has contributed to the expansion of a global entrepreneurial ecosystem, connecting experts and entrepreneurs across borders and sectors to unleash their ideas and transform innovation into reality. See more at www.gec.co In conjunction with GEW, 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. ECF Farmsystems beat 28 teams from around the world in a keenly contested 2013 competition. GEW 2013 Policy Survey GEC2 Croatia breaks new ground 2014 will see the world’s first GEC2 which is designed to give smaller countries a global platform Every year Global Entrepreneurship Congress is held in March. This year, however, a second Global Entrepreneurship Congress and the first to have a specific theme, will be held in September. GEC2, ‘The Entrepreneurial Mindset’, will focus on young entrepreneurs and those who can help them to turn their ideas into Ivo Josipović, viable businesses w [H[

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