The document discusses the Global Entrepreneurship Network's programs and priorities for 2017. It focuses on creating one global entrepreneurial ecosystem through research, policy advocacy, and community programs. Key priorities include gathering better data on entrepreneurship through research, influencing smarter public policy, and strengthening investor and startup communities. Programs highlighted include Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Global Business Angel Network, Startup Huddle meetings, and the Global Enterprise Registration portal.

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GEN IN 2017
Jonathan Ortmans
President, Global Entrepreneurship Network

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ONE GLOBAL
ENTREPRENEURIAL
ECOSYSTEM FOR THE
NEW NORMAL

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• Intensive demand for new economic value creation and new jobs
• Digital transparency and the rise of “information rich” grassroots
communities
• An era defined by simple, on-demand consumer convenience apps
makes way for disrupting highly regulated industries
• Early adaptors - Airbnb and Uber - just tip of iceberg for disruption
of long-standing traditional industries
• Government and entrepreneurs have to take each other seriously in
understanding the policy implications of fast and dramatic
innovation
THE NEW NORMAL: UNCERTAINTY AND SPEED

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• Approach is Iterative and Scientific – Founders
are building their “airplanes in the air”,
continuously testing visions, validating,
measuring, learning…and doing it again
• Better Teams –co-founders with unique industry
knowledge are teaming with radical thinkers to
turn disruptive ideas into innovation
• Better Faster and Cheaper Networks – now seen
as the primary currency for finding talent,
mentorship, smart money, & markets
• Afford to Fail – Bootstrapping, crowdfunding
and angel investors making pivoting and
recycling ventures easier.
MAKING A SCIENCE OF START AND SCALE

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• Peer to Peer On Demand Learning –
Experiential and peer to peer learning
overshadowing traditional curriculum
models.
• Stigma of Failure Disappearing - Starting up is
increasingly seen as conducting an
experiment – where teams either scale… or
recycle their knowledge fast and form a fresh
team around a new modified idea
• Level Playing Field - Smaller economies with
fewer established institutions now compete
in an age where ideas are unleashed by
teams, communities and networks of
individuals not large institutions
NEW WAYS OF LEARNING & NEW RULES

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• Entrepreneurial ecosystems are breathing a renewed
human spirit committed long-term to creating value for
society
• Ecosystems grow organically - there is no recipe or
formula
• Communities celebrate the success of anyone in the
village -- all boats rise on an incoming tide.
• We are all “feeders” (government, university, non-
profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) to
entrepreneurs birthing the new.
ECOSYSTEMS: OFFERING A RENEWED HUMAN SPIRIT IN CREATING
VALUE FOR SOCIETY

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THE GLASS HALF FULL GENERATION
Creative. Global. Open-minded.
Connected. Generous. Curious.
Fun. Social. Disciplined.
Want to do well but hand in hand with
good
Focused on the possible

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STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AHEAD

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The Global Entrepreneurship Network 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 GLOBAL

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The World Needs More Entrepreneurs:
Expanding the number of ordinary citizens working for or starting firms around the world by fully legitimizing entrepreneurs in all cultures
and economies.
Integrating the Disruptors With the Status Quo:
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.
Local and Global Founders:
Supporting the emergence of a new class of global entrepreneurs with access to research, programs and networks inside the 160 nation
strong GEW network.
Peer Review Analysis of What Works:
Connecting an emerging community of national 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

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GEN PROGRAMS
UNDERSTAND | RESEARCH & POLICY

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PRIORITY 1:
MORE PRECISE KNOWLEDGE
DATA DRIVEN RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS
& CROWDSOURING FOR WHAT WE DON’T KNOW

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PERFORMANCE AND HYPE:
BOOM IN PROGRAMS TO REDUCED EFFECT
Entrepreneurship
Programs and ,
Courses
Today
Overall Rate
of Business
Creation
Number
1980

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• Myth 1: Small business plays the most important role in growing the economy.
• Fact: The age of the firm is a more important variable than the size of the firm.
• Myth 2: Most entrepreneurs are 23-year-olds starting tech companies in their local coffee shop or their
bedroom.
• Fact: The 'peak age' for starting a company is in the mid to late 30s, early 40s.
• Myth 3: Silicon Valley can be copied by other communities and countries looking to create a hotbed of high-
tech startups.
• Fact: Silicon Valley is a very unique place that's never going to be replicated.
• Myth 4: Business incubators play an important role in launching early-stage companies.
• Fact: Most research shows that incubators are not effective at all for actually producing companies.
MORE MYTH-BUSTING

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• The Global Entrepreneurship Index is an annual report
that measures the health of entrepreneurship
ecosystems in 137 countries.
• It collects available data on the entrepreneurial
attitudes, abilities and aspirations of the local
population and then weights these against the
prevailing social and economic infrastructure
• Includes aspects such as broadband connectivity and
transport links to external markets.
MORE REAL TIME PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS |
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDEX

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• A snapshot overview of your entrepreneurship
ecosystem
• Serves as an analytical tool for diagnosing key
challenges that, if addressed comprehensively, would
have substantial impact on new firm formation.
• Informs program planning and policy advocacy
ecosystem analysis and development
• Unearths weak data or methodology for on-going
enhancement
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INDEX

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• The Global Entrepreneurship Research Network (GERN) funded by
the Kauffman Foundation is a working coalition of institutions that
fund research as a tool in realizing the full potential of
entrepreneurship to create inclusive prosperity on a global scale.
• Its objectives are to crowdsource real knowledge gaps, develop a
next generation of entrepreneurship research, share lessons and
knowledge and establish open, standardized data resources and
methodologies.
• Each member organization is a leader in its nation or region in
promoting entrepreneurship but sees the value GERN being bigger
than the sum of its parts.
BEST IN CLASS GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
RESEARCH CONSORTIUM

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• GERN members undertake joint projects that for example: 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 affiliates in each country 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 programmatic research means, ultimately, stronger
support programs for entrepreneurs.
CROWDSOURCING RESEARCH GAPS

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PRIORITY 2:
SMARTER PUBLIC POLICY
BUILDING ON THE NEW FACE OF GOVERNMENT

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• Government can create barriers, but also remove
barriers and mitigate risk and expanding the scale of
opportunity
• Government sets the rules and incentives – how easy
it is to start or scale a business, access global talent
and capital, and for commercial products and services
to cross national borders
• By investing in R&D, government is an innovator
mitigating risk in creating ideas that startups can
commercialize
• As a regulator, government must tackle for example
endless new innovations coming from the internet of
things
INCREASED ENTREPRENEUR AND GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN
POLICIES THAT ENABLE START AND SCALING OF NEW FIRMS

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• Entrepreneurs: In an age when digital disruption is opening
new opportunities in highly regulated industries, entrepreneurs
have to become familiar with public policy
• Government Engagement: There has been explosion of
government interest in new firm formation policies over the
past 24 months driven by global competitiveness and a new
urgency to leverage the capacity of entrepreneurs as creators
of new economic value, jobs
• An Education Strategy: Government increasingly sees
engagement by individuals in startups and startup communities
as teaching -- team building, initiative, problem solving and risk
mitigation
• Role for Government at all levels: Local, state and national
government roles being more clearly defined
INCREASED GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN
ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENABLING POLICYMAKING

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EXPERIMENTING WITH DIFFERENT POLICY INSTRUMENTS
• Welcoming immigrant founders and models for a more
free flow of high skilled co-founders
• Lowering barriers to entry and growth and protecting new
entrants from unfair practices by incumbent market
leaders
• Enabling new models for early stage financing (e.g.
crowdfunding rules)
• Tax and other incentives (e.g. payroll tax holidays) for new
and young firms
• Policies to accelerate formation of new ideas in their
universities
• Other basic rule of law issues around corruption, IP
protection etc.

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• Helps identify policy levers that can unleash high impact
entrepreneurship and innovation.
• 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.
• Enable informal knowledge sharing among economies
focused on leveraging entrepreneurs and their startups.
POLICY + STARTUP NATIONS

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• Our GEN Country affiliates will be a conduit through which
policymakers in one country gain access to the collective
knowledge and experience of their peers in other relevant
economies.
• Startup Nations is 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.
• Through the annual Startup Nations Awards, GEN Country affiliates
are able to ensure local policymakers gain global recognition for
their efforts championing startup policies.
UNDERSTAND | POLICY + STARTUP NATIONS

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STARTUP NATIONS ATLAS OF POLICIES (SNAP)
• Drives policy knowledge sharing
• SNAP collects evidence on the impact of policy instruments
being used to promote entrepreneurial growth around the
world
• SNAP platform is being created to enable us all to learn
from the experience of comparable policymakers around
the world
• Contribute to SNAP by adding entries at
startupnations.co/snap.

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GEN PROGRAMS
CELEBRATE | INSPIRATION

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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 165 countries – building and strengthening
entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world.

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165
countries
35,000
events
10 million
people
1 week
#GEW2016

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#GEW2016 HIGHLIGHTS
• Released the Global Entrepreneurship Index that measures the health of the entrepreneurship
ecosystems in 137 countries and ranks them from top to bottom.
• The official opening of GEW 2016 was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, to begin the road to the
Global Entrepreneurship Congress in March 2017 which will bring 5,000 entrepreneurs, investors,
policymakers, researchers and startup champions to the continent.
• Ten promising new startups were named as finalists in the Startup Open – with the winner getting a free
trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and a spot on stage at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in
March 2017.
• Richard Branson headlined INCmty, a featured GEW event in Monterrey, Mexico.
• The official finale of GEW 2016 was held in Cork, Ireland, at the Startup Nations Summit where startup
savvy policymakers shared and explored innovative policy instruments to support their entrepreneurs.

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GEN PROGRAMS
SUPPORT | PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES

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PRIORITY 1:
INVESTORS:
EMERGENCE OF EARLY STAGE INVESTOR COMMUNITY

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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

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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

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PRIORITY 2:
COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
STRONGER COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT THOSE STARTING
AND SCALING FIRMS

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Startup Huddle is a program designed to educate,
engage, and connect entrepreneurs. Originally
developed by the Kauffman Foundation, Startup
Huddle 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.
SUPPORT | STARTUP HUDDLE

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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

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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 with support from the
U.S. State Department.
SUPPORT | GLOBAL ENTERPRISE REGISTRATION

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 5 other finalists.
Previous winners – which include startups from the UK, Israel, Croatia,
Ghana and the United States – have been featured by CNBC, CNN, Fast
Company and Forbes.
COMPETE | STARTUP OPEN

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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GEN PROGRAMS
CONNECT | GLOBAL FORUMS & PLATFORM

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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

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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 and
Ireland. It will be held in Estonia in November 2017 and
includes a gathering of Ministers staff to prepare for an annual
Ministerial at the GEC Istanbul in March
CONNECT | STARTUP NATIONS SUMMIT

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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

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GEC+ is a deep-dive gathering of entrepreneurship experts that is
focused on a particular area of startup ecosystems. Designed to
enable a less hurried, deeper colloquy around well-defined yet
unanswered questions arising from GEN’s annual Congress, GEC+
events look at regions or specific topics identified in conjunction
with the nation that hosts them.
CONNECT | GEC+

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The August 2016 GEC+ in Daegu, Korea, hosted by GEN and the
Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation, rigorously examined
challenges and best global practices for fostering an
entrepreneurial mindset and shined a bright light on new
research and analytical tools for practitioners to apply when
developing entrepreneurship programs and policies.
CONNECT | GEC+ DAEGU 2016

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The next GEC+ will be held in Cape Town, South Africa on March
16-17, 2017, and offer an introduction into Cape Town’s vibrant
entrepreneurial ecosystem. Following the GEC in Johannesburg,
the event is sponsored by the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and
the Cape Town GEC+ Host Committee. In addition to an overview
of Cape Town’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, GEC+ Cape Town will
feature a dive deep into innovative new methods for
understanding entrepreneurial mindset around the world.
CONNECT | GEC+ CAPE TOWN 2017

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GEN GLOBAL
GEN COUNTRY
Execution

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GEN [COUNTRY] | NATIONAL ROLE
• Convenes and aligns the major entrepreneurial ecosystem actors to
streamline efforts, minimize competition, and maximize impact and outcomes
• Serves as a source and sharing platform of knowledge, including national and
global research data and analysis about program performance
• GEN [Country] plays to the strengths and strategic plans of the current actors
and their current roles seeking to compliment and enhance their efforts and
funding
• GEN [Country] amplifies the voice of entrepreneurial ecosystem actors on
the global stage for research and policy and programs

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GEN Global: Bigger the Sum of the Parts
• Given it is active in 170 countries and has global vertical communities in research,
policy, start and scale programs and more what can we do that is bigger than the
sum of the parts?
• What are the biggest barriers to our collective future? How can we overcome
them>
• What opportunities do we have as a global community populated or connected to
the major actors of our time in entrepreneurship that we might seize?
• Which of these are more effectively addressed by a global community?
• What else could we do that would be uniquely possible for a global community?
• How could the GEN community better serve your interests?

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The Global Entrepreneurship Congress is part of the
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK
g e n g l o b a l . o r g

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LEVERAGE THE GEC
PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Bill Aulet of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship,
speaker at GEC Medellin in 2016
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ABOUT
GEC JOHANNESBURG: MARCH 2017
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CONTACT
Ingrid Vanderveldt, founder of the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs, speaker at GEC Moscow in 2014
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