Entrepreneurship

A. Description of the issue

Entrepreneurship is the key driving force behind economic growth and innovation around the world. Entrepreneurs have the ability to turn new ideas into breakthrough solutions while creating employment and spreading prosperity. It is entrepreneurs who will most likely create solutions to the worlds most important and complex challenges around surrounding health, energy and human development. But entrepreneurs alone can not make change happen, no matter how visionary and persistent, unless they operate in an environment that supports and rewards risk risk-taking. People choose entrepreneurial careers when they anticipate economic, psychological or social rewards that outweigh the risks relative to more traditional forms of employment. An improved understanding of the types of regulatory and cultural environments that foster entrepreneurships can help develop policies designed to advance continuous innovation and new business creation. What are the critical success factors and best practice models for the development of entrepreneurship? What are the barriers?

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B. Dimensions
Entrepreneurial culture: Entrepreneurial activities flourish in societies that value and recognize innovativeness and risk-taking. What practices can help create an entrepreneur-friendly environment? What initiatives can help increase public recognition and appreciation of entrepreneurship? Regulatory framework and the economics of entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial activity responds to policies that impact ensure the protection of new ideas, that facilitate access to capital and talent, and allow to the management of risks. What regulatory frameworks in the areas of intellectual property, immigration, bankruptcy protection and capital markets can best foster entrepreneurial activity? Venture capital: Finding capital remains one of the most critical issues entrepreneurs facethat entrepreneurs face. What forms and sources of financing are best suited to serve early capital formation? Entrepreneurship education: What is the most effective form to of education to fashion educate entrepreneurs from the early formative stages to higher education and beyond? How can we best educate the managerial talent that who will support support the founding entrepreneurs as they grow their ventures receive the best education? Sustaining innovation in mature organizations: Mature organizations must rely on internal and external entrepreneurs to keep maintain the pace of innovation and remain viable. What modes of symbiotic collaboration will allow large companies to tap the innovation capability of smaller ventures? Entrepreneurship Wof women entrepreneurship: Women represent at least half of the productive resources of any society and are instrumental to spill over economic growth across society. Yet , women often encounter gender-specific barriers that need to be understood and addressed. Family entrepreneurship:. In most societies, it is tthe family, rather than the individual, that drives entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurial families are fertile grounds to develop new entrepreneurs, ; they offer advantages in funding new ventures and are often better equipped to they help manage risk. How to can sustain family entrepreneurship be sustained across generations?

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List of Members
Chairman
*ngel Cabrera, President, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA

Members
Abdullah Hussain Al Kubaisi, Director, Member of the Board, Qatar Foundation, Qatar *Philip Anderson, Professor of Entrepreneurship, INSEAD, Singapore *Tom Byers, Professor and Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program, Stanford University, USA *Fadi Ghandour, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aramex International, Jordan *Michael Hay, Professor of Management Practice in Entrepreneurship, London Business School, United Kingdom *Jiro Kokuryo, Professor, Keio University, Japan Richard M. Locke, Professor, MIT - Sloan School of Management, USA *Jan Anders Manson, Vice-President, Innovation and Technology Transfer, Ecole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland *Bruce McNamer, President and Chief Executive Officer, TechnoServe, USA Joel M. Podolny, Dean, Yale School of Management, USA *Edward B. Roberts, Founder and Chairman, MIT Entrepreneurship Center, USA *Linda Rottenberg, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Endeavor, USA Joachim Schwass, Professor of Family Business and Entrepreneurship, IMD International, Switzerland *Sachio Semmoto, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, eAccess, Japan *Donald Tapscott, Chief Executive Officer, nGenera, Canada *Ann Winblad, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, USA * Confirmed participation in the Summit on the Global Agenda
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