The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) fosters a global entrepreneurial ecosystem through a range of programs and initiatives in 160 countries, aimed at supporting entrepreneurs at all stages. Key efforts include promoting an entrepreneurial culture, facilitating startups, and connecting various stakeholders such as investors and policymakers to advance entrepreneurship. Celebrated annually during Global Entrepreneurship Week, GEN's initiatives aim to inspire and educate emerging entrepreneurs while providing access to crucial resources and networking opportunities.

1. Gen logo
Jonathan Ortmans
President, Global Entrepreneurship
Network
Senior Fellow, Kauffman Foundation
Chair, President Obama Spark Global
Entrepreneurship Commission
email: jonathan@gew.co
twitter: @jortmans

3. The Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) is a year-round platform of
programs and initiatives aimed at creating one global entrepreneurial
ecosystem. GEN helps people in 160 countries unleash their ideas and turn
them into promising new ventures – creating jobs, accelerating innovation and
strengthening economic stability around the world.
Ranging from efforts to inspire and educate nascent entrepreneurs to
advancing research and connecting global leaders in person, GEN operates in
all types of economies and cultures.
GEN is a compass to identify effective initiatives that positively impact whole
societies and interventions that target the most critical areas for entrepreneurial
ecosystems around the world.
ABOUT GEN

4. Expanding the number of ordinary citizens working for or starting firms around
the world by fully legitimizing entrepreneurs in all cultures and economies.
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.
Supporting the emergence of a new class of global entrepreneurs with access
to research, programs and networks inside the 160 nation strong GEW network.
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.
THE GEN MISSION

5. THE GEN APPROACH
Celebrate:
Efforts to promote a more entrepreneurial culture by celebrating the successes of
entrepreneurs and inspiring the next generation of behind them.
Support:
Programs and resources intended to help smooth the path to market for founder teams and
provide entrepreneurs at all stages with the support necessary to reach the next level.
Compete:
Competitions to test for the best founder teams and offer them a competitive club of global
peers, communities and programs to help fast track their efforts to start or scale ventures.
Understand:
Efforts to help increase the quality and quantity of data and research available to
policymakers and startup community leaders to help identify best-in-class programs and
policies to advance local and national entrepreneurial growth.
Connect:
Efforts to connect entrepreneurs, investors, savvy policymakers, researchers, startup
community leaders and other leaders and feeders across the globe as the support, enable,
start and scale new firms and entrepreneurs.

6. THE GEN UNIVERSE
160 COUNTRIES

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8. GEN PROGRAMS
CELEBRATE | INSPIRATION

9. CELEBRATE | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK
During one week each November, thousands of
events and competitions around the world inspire
millions to engage in entrepreneurial activity while
connecting them to potential collaborators, mentors
and even investors. Since it launched in 2008, Global
Entrepreneurship Week has expanded to 160
countries – building and strengthening
entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world.
Powered by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation,
the initiative is supported by dozens of world leaders
and a network of 16,836 partner organizations.

10. CELEBRATE | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP WEEK
Recognized around the world, GEW offers GEN country
affiliates a springboard from which to launch new
year-round programs and initiatives. The media
attention GEW attracts each November creates the
opportunity for GEN country affiliates to spotlight the
founders it has helped, announce new programs and
initiatives, and highlight the impact it has had during
the course of the year. GEW serves as a community-
building season in each nation that reaches out to the
public at large to inspire more citizens to engage with
the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

11. GEN PROGRAMS
UNDERSTAND | RESEARCH & POLICY

12. The Global Entrepreneurship Research Network
(GERN) funded by the Kauffman Foundation is a
working coalition of institutions funding
research as a tool in realizing the full potential
of entrepreneurship to create inclusive
prosperity on a global scale. Its objectives are
to develop a next generation of
entrepreneurship research, share lessons and
knowledge and establish open, standardized
data resources. Each member organization is a
leader in its nation or region in promoting
entrepreneurship.
UNDERSTAND | GERN

13. GERN members undertake joint projects that
map entrepreneurship ecosystems, evaluate
the efficacy of entrepreneurship programs
(including accelerators), and validate research
methodologies (such as those that involve the
use of government datasets). Through GERN,
GEN country affiliates are able to connect
national entrepreneurship research
organizations to their global counterparts,
allowing them to standardize their approaches,
pool data, and leverage a wider Kauffman
Foundation-led consortium of researchers.
Better research results, ultimately, in stronger
support programs for entrepreneurs.
UNDERSTAND | GERN

14. Startup Nations helps identify policy levers that
can unleash high impact entrepreneurship and
innovation. It is made up of “startup savvy”
policymakers and program leaders focused on
exploring different regulatory changes and
other policy ideas to help accelerate new and
young firm formation in their economies. It
enables informal knowledge sharing among
economies focused on leveraging
entrepreneurs and their startups.
UNDERSTAND | STARTUP NATIONS

15. GEN country affiliates are a conduit through which
policymakers in one country gain access to the collective
knowledge and experience of their peers in another similar
economy. Startup Nations is also a means to learn about
new government-sponsored programs and/or regulatory
policies aimed at increasing new firm formation, especially
in the early, experimental stage. Startup Nations enables
GEN country affiliates to gain leading-edge insight into
government efforts to support entrepreneurs. Further,
through the annual Startup Nations Awards, GEN country
affiliates are able to help local policymakers gain global
recognition for their efforts championing startup policies.
UNDERSTAND | STARTUP NATIONS

16. The Global Entrepreneurship Index is an annual
report that measures the health of
entrepreneurship ecosystems in 132 countries.
It collects data on the entrepreneurial attitudes,
abilities and aspirations of the local population
and then weights these against the prevailing
social and economic infrastructure – this
includes aspects such as broadband
connectivity and transport links to external
markets.
UNDERSTAND | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDEX

17. The Index provides GEN country affiliates with a
snapshot overview of their entrepreneurship
ecosystem and serves as an analytical tool for
diagnosing key challenges that, if addressed
comprehensively, would have substantial
impact on new firm formation. For program
planning and policy advocacy, the Index is one
initial go-to resource. Moreover, GEN Global’s
partnership with the GEDI Institute, which
produces the Index, facilitates access to world-
class experts in entrepreneurship ecosystem
analysis and development.
UNDERSTAND | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDEX

18. UNDERSTAND | COLOMBIA'S ECOSYSTEM

19. Colombia currently ranks 43 out of 132
countries and 3 out of 24 South and Central
America and Caribbean countries.
Its ecosystem exhibits a world-class strengths
in Opportunity Perception and High Growth
oriented firms.
Colombia is also very strong in Opportunity
Startup, Product Innovation, and
Internationalization (i.e., Colombian
entrepreneurs access to global markets).
UNDERSTAND | COLOMBIA'S ECOSYSTEM

20. Colombia’s strengths are mainly in the
Aspirations Pillars (10-14). Its main bottlenecks
appear to be in the Abilities Pillars (1-5).
This snapshot analysis shows that Colombia
would benefit most from broad-based,
coordinated programs that comprehensively
address its bottlenecks – e.g. Process
Innovation, Technology Absorption, and
Networking – without undermining its
strengths.
UNDERSTAND | COLOMBIA'S ECOSYSTEM

21. GEN PROGRAMS
SUPPORT | PROGRAMS & RESOURCES

22. The Global Business Angel Network interfaces
with entrepreneurs, policymakers, early-stage
finance actors and leading entrepreneurial
support programs to strengthen the global
entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether helping
recruit more investors, expanding geographic
investment arenas beyond local markets or
amplifying the angel “voice” to regulatory issue
discussions, GBAN seeks to provide an
inclusive, supportive community of early-stage
investors around the world.
SUPPORT | GBAN

23. GBAN provides a way to more actively engage
a country’s angels in GEN and GEW – and also
brings insight about ecosystem investor
challenges to research and policy efforts
enabling GEN country affiliates to support local
investors by empowering them with information
about cutting-edge international research and
policy developments, connecting them to an
international investor community, and offering
them new opportunities to discover high
potential entrepreneurs. For GEN country
affiliates in places without mature angel
networks, GBAN brings experienced networks
and tools from across the globe to support their
creation or development.
SUPPORT | GBAN

24. Startup Huddle is a program designed to educate,
engage, and connect entrepreneurs. It is based on the
notion that the best way for entrepreneurs to discover
solutions to the challenges they face is through
purposeful engagement with one another. As an
experiential learning opportunity, the Startup Huddle
format is consistent in each location: on a given
morning, one or two early-stage startup founders give
a six-minute presentation of their companies to a
diverse audience of peers, mentors, educators, and
advisors. Each presentation is followed by a 20-
minute question and answer session and feedback
via an audience survey
SUPPORT | STARTUP HUDDLE
STARTUP
HUDDLE

25. The Global Entrepreneurship Library, created in
partnership with the Kauffman Foundation and
the World Economic Forum, is an international
portal of knowledge and resources to enable
entrepreneurial success. It provides a way for
useful information needed by entrepreneurs to
be curated within each country, and
contributed to a pool of knowledge shared
internationally. Entrepreneurs can find
resources by country, language, topic, type,
market and stage of business.
SUPPORT | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIBRARY

26. Easy access to top-of-the-line resources
enables GEN country affiliates to provide
entrepreneurs, and those who support them,
with the ideas, insights, knowledge, and
wisdom of world-renowned entrepreneurship
thought-leaders from across the globe. More
importantly it provides a platform for
distributing national research information and
programs.
SUPPORT | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIBRARY

27. Global Enterprise Registration is an index of
web portals around the world allowing online
business registration or describing the business
registration process. It is intended to promote
the use and improvement of business
registration services worldwide, by allowing
easy access to existing online systems and by
facilitating the exchange of experiences and
best practices among governments. Global
Enterprise Registration is jointly produced by
UNCTAD and GEN in partnership with the U.S.
Department of State.
SUPPORT | GLOBAL ENTERPRISE REGISTRATION

28. GER helps GEN country affiliates accelerate new
firm formation in two ways. One is by walking a
founder through the registration process. The
other is by identifying bottlenecks within the
bureaucracy, an invaluable tool for policy
advocacy. For a GEN country directors, up-to-
date and detailed information about the
business registration process in their country
can be a vital tool in a strategy to engage more
of the informal economy in entrepreneurial
economic activity.
SUPPORT | GLOBAL ENTERPRISE REGISTRATION

29. Startup Experience is one of several new GEN
educational programs offering intensive
transformational workshops designed to
inspire the next generation of young
entrepreneurs. It introduces students to the
entrepreneurial mindset and provide hands-on
training in high impact entrepreneurship.
Students build creative capacity,
entrepreneurial confidence, and learn effective
tools to build new ventures.
SUPPORT | STARTUP EXPERIENCE

30. A proven model with a track record of success,
Startup Experience offers a program designed
to foster an entrepreneurial mindset in young
people. It has been especially valuable in
societies where initiative and creativity has
been less predominant in the national culture. It
can serve as an important means of training
teachers locally with tools that enable more
young people to see their potential to make a
job rather than take a job – something
important in so many parts of the world with
high rates of youth unemployment.
SUPPORT | STARTUP EXPERIENCE

31. GEN PROGRAMS
COMPETE | FINDING FOUNDERS

32. Startup Compete is a global networking site and
competition platform for aspiring entrepreneurs,
mentors and advisors to connect with each other and
bring potential business ideas to market. The
customizable white-label platform has powered
hundreds of competitions in more than 125 countries –
providing organizers with a simple and efficient tool to
manage their competitions and offer emerging
startups a chance to hone their skills and make
connections that will take them to the next level.
COMPETE | STARTUP COMPETE
STARTUP
COMPETE

33. For GEN country affiliates, the Startup Compete
internet platform simplifies and streamlines the
process for organizing and conducting
business competitions. It allows a GEN affiliate
to customize questions and rounds, invite and
sort judges, and manage everything from one
place.
COMPETE | STARTUP COMPETE
STARTUP
COMPETE

34. Startup Open is a global startup competition
organized on GEN’s Startup Compete platform to
identify, connect and recognize promising young
startups around the world. The top virtual
applicants from around the world join the global
winners of GEN’s affiliated live competitions in
being offered admission into GEN’s Starters Club.
Following due diligence and interviews with a
panel of investors, the top GEN Starters travel to
the GEC to be recognized in front of the world –
and to face off against other finalists. Previous
winners – which include startups from Israel,
Croatia, Ghana and the United States – have been
featured by CNBC, CNN, Fast Company and
Forbes.
COMPETE | STARTUP OPEN

35. Startup Open offers GEN country affiliates a
means for connecting their nation’s most
promising entrepreneurs and startups without
having to hold live business plan competitions.
This can bring global exposure, helping them
build their support communities by connecting
them to global resources such as peer
mentors, investors, and support providers.
COMPETE | STARTUP OPEN

36. The Creative Business Cup is a world
championship for entrepreneurs in the creative
industries – including design, gaming, music,
film, content production, architecture and more.
While these industries hold great potential,
creative entrepreneurs are not as prepared
with the business skills necessary to take their
ideas to the next level. Winners from national
competitions participate in the global final
during Global Entrepreneurship Week in
Copenhagen, Denmark winning among other
prizes a place in GEN Starters and a trip to the
GEC.
COMPETE | CREATIVE BUSINESS CUP

37. The Creative Business Cup leadership are
experts in the special support required by
creative entrepreneurs. For GEN country
affiliates, organizing a local CBC competition
offers an opportunity to tap into this expertise
and connect with this particular sub-set of
entrepreneurs as well as their community of
supporters. CBC provides additional support
targeted to creative industries startups year
round.
COMPETE | CREATIVE BUSINESS CUP

38. Get in the Ring brings promising entrepreneurs
from around the world in contact with investors
and inspires the next generation of
entrepreneurs to begin the entrepreneurial
journey. Created by the Erasmus Centre for
Entrepreneurship, global finalists face off in a
boxing ring to secure an investment of up to
€1,000,000. The battle takes place around the
world culminating in regional and then a global
final.
COMPETE | GET IN THE RING

39. Get in the Ring attracts a wide-variety of
aspiring entrepreneurs. Connecting them with
a GEN country affiliate enhances their ability to
succeed, and the GEN affiliate’s ability to learn
about and develop programs that address their
needs.
COMPETE | GET IN THE RING

40. Each year 1776, a global incubator and venture
fund, hosts a worldwide tournament called the
Challenge Cup in partnership with GEN and
others including more than 50 incubator hosts
around the world to discover the most
promising, highly scalable startups that are
poised to solve the major challenges of our
time.
COMPETE | CHALLENGE CUP

41. Startups advance through three rounds: Local,
Regional and Global Finals. All of the regional
winners and a host of wild cards will be invited
to participate in the Challenge Cup Global
Finals next June in Washington, D.C. There,
they’ll compete for over $1 million in prizes, as
well as spend time with the investors,
customers, media and other key connections
that can help them succeed on a global scale.
COMPETE | CHALLENGE CUP

42. The Future Agro Challenge is a world
championship for innovators changing our
everyday life through farm, food and lifestyle.
The competition explores farming and business
practices in water management, production
conservation, instant data access, crop diversity,
post harvest waste; increases education and
training; transforms primary agricultural
production into biological solutions; invents
alternative uses of natural products; and
revolutionizes new ways to address the
importance of living healthy lifestyles.
COMPETE | FUTURE AGRO CHALLENGE

43. Similar to the Creative Business Cup, the Future
Agro Challenge provides GEN country affiliates
with a competition for the agricultural sector – a
vital and often overlooked market segment
within the startup world – offering a means to
reach this important sub-set of entrepreneurs.
As the world adapts to changes in the
environment, those who aspire to find practical
solutions to such challenges as those
mentioned above require a specialized
community of supporters.
COMPETE | FUTURE AGRO CHALLENGE

44. GEN Starters Club is a global community made
up of talented founders whose promising
startups have been battle-tested through one
or more of GEN’s global startup competitions.
Through the Club, GEN Starters have access to
connections with potential collaborators,
mentors, and investors within the Global
Entrepreneurship Network – as well as year-
round opportunities for additional support,
visibility, and peer-to-peer learning
experiences.!
COMPETE | GEN STARTERS CLUB
CLUB
GEN
STARTERS

45. GEN PROGRAMS
CONNECT | GLOBAL FORUMS & EVENTS

46. The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) is
an inter-disciplinary gathering of startup
champions from around the world – where
entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, thought
leaders, and policymakers work together to
help bring ideas to life, drive economic growth,
and expand human welfare. The Congress
brings together an average of 6,000 delegates
from 150 countries to discuss growing
entrepreneurial ecosystems.
CONNECT | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONGRESS

47. With live events featuring the latest, best-in-
class programming and research, GEC is a
unique opportunity for the leaders of GEN in
each country to attend as a delegation to meet
fellow practitioners and stay apprised of new
ideas, insights and developments. The GEC
which is free for registered members of GEN,
also serves as GEN’s annual meeting gathering
all GEN Countries and GEN’s verticals,
communities and programs for a week bigger
than the sum of its parts.
CONNECT | GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONGRESS

48. The Startup Nations Summit (SNS) gathers the
members of Startup Nations and features some
of the world’s startup savvy policy advisors and
community leaders collaborating on smarter
policies and government leadership to support
new firm formation. The Startup Nations Summit
has been held in Toronto, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul,
and Monterrey, Mexico. It will go to Cork,
Ireland in November 2016.
CONNECT | STARTUP NATIONS SUMMIT

49. For GEN country affiliates, the annual Summit is an
opportunity to offer national policy advisors an
international forum in which to listen to and learn from
their peers from around the world who are grappling
with similar domestic policy challenges in government.
During the Summit, they are able to exchange
information with policy leaders about cutting-edge
government programs and regulatory practices aimed
at increasing new firm formation and gain insight
about the ways in which other national governments
support entrepreneurs.
CONNECT | STARTUP NATIONS SUMMIT

50. GEC+ is a deep-dive gathering of
entrepreneurship experts that is focused on a
particular area of startup ecosystems. The
event allows for a rigorous examination of
gaps, bottlenecks, overlaps or other challenges
to fostering enabling entrepreneurial
environments.
CONNECT | GEC+
GEC+

51. GEN COUNTRY
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP | GLOBAL NETWORK

52. In each of the 160 nations that celebrate Global
Entrepreneurship Week, GEN leadership is
slowly taking shape to formally help guide year
round the development of healthy national
ecosystems that are born on day one globally
connected to leading edge research,
communities and programs that deliver high
impact entrepreneurial performance to the
world.
GEN COUNTRY | Your Pipeline to GEN Global

53. • Aligns the major entrepreneurial ecosystem in one inclusive effort
where all boats rise on the incoming tide of supporting
entrepreneurs
• Plays to the strengths of the current actors and their current roles
• Has a strong Governing Board of Directors that ensures it stays
focused on outputs and has impact
• Has a broad-based Advisory Board that includes all ecosystem
voices and communities and helps to streamline efforts, minimizes
competition among those with limited resources, and maximizes
impact.
GEN COUNTRY | Aligns, Connects, Empowers

54. • Convening and leveraging disparate ecosystem players
• Amplifying global outreach and increasing awareness
• Evaluating and endorsing tried and tested programs
• Serving as a source of quantifiable data and qualitative
information
• Acting as a hub for sharing knowledge and experience
• Guiding an ecosystem network bigger than the sum of its parts
GEN COUNTRY | Leads by:

55. • Global competitions – e.g. Startup Open, Challenge Cup, GITR,
Creative Business Cup, Cleantech Open Global Ideas, Challenge Cup
• Live international events such as the Global Entrepreneurship
Congress, Startup Nations Summit, GEC+ and GEN Regional Meetups
• Constant flow of new entrepreneur support programs – including
GBAN, Startup Compete, Startup Experience, GEN Starters Club
• Research and Policy development and advocacy especially through
Startup Nations, GERN and GEN research products such as the GEI
and independent Kauffman Foundation research
GEN COUNTRY | Leverages GEN Global’s:

56. GEN [COUNTRY]
FAQs

57. A vehicle for providing next generation
leadership in rapidly scaling the development
and performance of your national
entrepreneurial ecosystem with a strong
emphasis on leveraging a global pipeline and
distribution channel with parallel operations,
partners and projects in 160 countries.
What is GEN [COUNTRY]?

58. Through an agreement with GEN Global, each
GEN [Country] affiliate is set up as an
independent legally registered organization
that is managed and controlled by a local
governing board of directors and advised by a
comprehensive community of ecosystem
actors and organizations.
How does GEN [COUNTRY] operate?

59. Local competition, dispersed transparent
control, inclusiveness, no past baggage
Why must GEN [COUNTRY] affiliates be
independent?

60. Since GEN Global plans to get out of the way
of GEN [Country]’s Board of Directors and let
them run it, own it, and control it, it is vitally
important that the founders are the right people
in terms of gravitas and understanding GEN’s
culture of inclusiveness and transparency.
Why is GEN [COUNTRY] so focused on leadership and boards? Is this
not about getting on with helping our aspiring and scaling
entrepreneurs?

61. Whether building a GEN [COUNTRY] Advisory Board
from GEW’s Advisory Board, finding your GEN
[COUNTRY] Managing Director from the GEW team
or upgrading the engagement of your stakeholders
from GEW to GEN [COUNTRY], GEN [COUNTRY] is
built from the communities within your country that
have a history of collaborating together to help
entrepreneurs. The current GEW leadership should
decide whether to continue focusing exclusively on
the GEW mission or to become GEN [COUNTRY]
founders.
How does the existing GEW leadership and
partnership fit into GEN [COUNTRY]?

62. GEN [COUNTRY] is a neutral ground motivated
by a globally facing effort where no one actor
monopolizes.!
!
GEN [COUNTRY] connects your existing
actors to your GEN counterparts in 160
countries offering them access to research,
policy, programs and thought leadership and a
global network of best practices and support.
We have good leadership within our ecosystem. We already have
dozens of acclerators and ecosystem actors. What does GEN
[COUNTRY] bring for us?

63. There is a toolkit and a process for you to follow.
Here are the top 10 major milestones:!
1. Apply to be the Acting MD by submitting not a
resume but your view of who is who in your national
and local ecosystems. This could take a weekend to
put together, but it serves as a networking roadmap
drawing from your knowledge, experience and
existing ecosystem mapping efforts. It should be a
comprehensive (geographically and constituencies)
dream map of the most significant organizations
(perhaps using GEW relationships as a base) that
would form your advisory board and GEN network.
I personally want to serve as a GEN [COUNTRY] acting
Managing Director. What are the steps in the process?

64. 2. Meet with Buke Cuhadar to discuss your
proposed Advisory Board!
3. Upon a formal written invitation from GEN
Global, work with GEN Global in developing a
master strategy for GEN Country!
4. Gather together an exploratory effort and
advisory board – in person and virtually – to
present the vision – tying them into GEN Global
interface opportunities (e.g. GEC or other
events or visits by GEN senior representatives
to your country.!
Top 10 Milestones to GEN [COUNTRY]

65. 5. After getting buy in, produce a list of your
top 20 dream governing Board of Directors!
6. Consult with GEN Global and begin inviting
them through a careful approach to exploratory
meetings!
7. Once GEN Global signs off on the final
Governing Board of Director and formal
Advisory Board Members, with one Governing
Board seat always with GEN Global . . . !
!
Top 10 Milestones to GEN [COUNTRY]

66. 8. Hold your first Board of Directors and
Advisory Board Member meetings to discuss
progress on developing an initial strategic plan!
9. Establish the legal entity, file documents !
10. Begin fundraising and operations.!
!
Top 10 Milestones to GEN [COUNTRY]

67. 1. It must be comprehensive and inclusive of
the major actors within the ecosystem – from
startup communities and accelerators, to the
corporate community, and to government and
NGOs!
2. The treatment of competitors and others
must be civil – this is a significant global
interface for your entrepreneurial ecosystem –
do not advertise internal differences on the
global stage!
!
What are your top 5 tips for GEN [COUNTRY]
development?

68. 3. Keep it focused on evidence-based gaps,
and creative opportunities!
4. Find a role for all the players currently
providing leadership – let them own parts of it.!
5. Make it bigger than the sum of its parts.!
!
What are your top 5 tips for GEN [COUNTRY]
development?

69. GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK
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