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Entrepreneurship

Simon White | Specialist in policies and programs for promoting entrepreneurship.

MindLab –– a platform for co-creating better ideas.

Here’s a Danish initiative designed to promote innovation within government while breaking down government silos. MindLab is a cross-ministerial innovation unit which involves citizens and businesses in creating new solutions for society – “a neutral zone for inspiring creativity, innovation and collaboration”. MindLab works with civil servants of three Danish

ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development

This October, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) its annual Information Economy report, which focused on the role of information and communications technology (ICT) in enabling private sector development: Information Economy Report 2011; ICTs as an Enabler for Private Sector Development (PSD). The report shows that the

Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries

This summary of research by Maria Minniti and Wim Naudé on Female Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries provides an interesting snapshot on the gender dimensions of entrepreneurship in developing economies. It presents a series of stylized facts on what is known from the last 30 years of research on female self-employment

The magic sauce of entrepreneurship -- another Kauffman Foundation video

The Kauffman Foundation has released another video on entrepreneurship: the Kauffman Sketchbook series. These are are a useful way of getting a clear message across. This video is based on the Kauffman claim that “the best indicator of a country’s growth is the number of new firms started every

Local entrepreneurship ecosystems

New from the Startup Foundation with support from the Kauffman Foundation, this site focuses on startup communities are around the world. The site asks people in the target cities to add their initiatives and events. It seeks to map local entrepreneurship ecosystems. In July of 2011, Startup Weekend and The

Three things entrepreneurs do

A nice video of on the role of entrepreneurship from the Kauffman Foundation. Very US-centric, but an effective way of communicating the message. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7VZIbeUrSU&feature=player_embedded]

Creating entrepreneurial business environments

A key ingredient of entrepreneurship is risk. Doing things differently, inventing and producing different things, and providing different services… all this entails risk. Entrepreneurs invest in doing things differently and the outcomes of this investment are unpredictable. In fact, these investments are more likely to fail than not. Governments stifle