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Global Entrepreneurship Week - key facts

Enterprise Week has gone global! www.enterpriseweek.org.uk
Enterprise Week (17-23 November) has been a big success in the UK, with over half a million people attending over 5,000 events last year alone.
This success has inspired an international event - with 77 countries taking part - linking young people in the UK to enterprising people and ideas around the world.
Called Global Entrepreneurship Week it aims to create the successful businesses of tomorrow by generating ideas that tackle the challenging economic and social issues that we face today.
Having a can-do attitude and the skills to spot opportunities, overcome challenges and implement ideas is more important and urgent than ever in the current global economic climate.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, sponsored by NYSE Euronext, Ernst & Young and IBM and organised by Make Your Mark (founders of the UK’s Enterprise Week) and the Kauffman Foundation
Make Your Mark is the campaign to give people the confidence, skills and ambition to be enterprising - to make their ideas happen. It was founded by the four leading UK business membership organisations – the British Chambers of Commerce, the CBI, the Federation of Small Businesses and the Institute of Directors. It is supported by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and endorsed by the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. www.makeyourmark.org.uk

Event highlights

Below are some of the main events running during the week. To take a look at the thousands of other events taking place, search the events calendar

If you need help finding an event to attend please get in touch with Diana at Make Your Mark.

Monday 17 will see flagship event In the current economic downturn…Can Entrepreneurs Change The World? take place as part of Chain Reaction.
The fourth annual Make Your Mark Challenge will kick start the week for students. This year the Challenge has been awarded the Inspire Mark by London 2012.
Through the week Unleash It! will be encouraging people from all over the world to address challenges set by individuals and organisations worldwide.
Ruth Badger and Levi Roots will be among the speakers at the 4 Entrepreneurs event in Hertford on Monday 17.
Carl Hopkins of TV programme The Secret Millionaire will launch Enterprise Week in Yorkshire and Humber.
Black Boys in Business, a two day event with the second day taking place on 21 November, will showcase inspirational stories and workshops with support provided by Barclays, MTV and Voice Newspaper at Bernie Grants Arts Centre in Tottenham, London.
Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and multi-millionaire, James Caan, will be delivering the keynote speech at Village Drinks Business Club evening, drawing to a close the first day of Enterprise Week.
Tuesday 18 sees countries around the world holding ‘speednetworking’ events as part of Speednetwork the Globe. There will be several large speednetworking events with the London Eye Speednetwork being a highligh event. Similar events place globally, include the British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland and on the steps of the Opera House in Sydney, Australia.
European Young Professionals London will be hosting a Speednetwork the Globe event at the Association of Photographers in Central London on Tuesday.
On Women’s Enterprise Day, Wednesday 19, the Pocket the Problem exhibition will launch at City Hall, London, showcasing entries to a competition for London school girls who customised Clippykit bags to highlight issues that matter to them.
The British Library will run two panel events; one to celebrate female inventors where an audience will hear stories from top women innovators and the other entitled Small Business, Global Ambition.
A panel discussion will take place at Foyles bookshop in London on Wednesday evening. Among those in the hot seat will be Rachel Bridge, enterprise journalist and author.
Also on Wednesday, 14-30 year olds who are keen to take their first steps into the music industry will get the chance to attend Backstage Pass - a networking event where they will come face-to-face with some of the music industry’s biggest hitters organised by the BPI.
Rounding off Wednesday is the launch of Achievers International with two parallel events taking place at the German Embassy in London, and the British Embassy in Berlin on the same night linked by webcam.
Social Enterprise Day, on Thursday 20, will see the launch of the One Water Project. Teams of young people in the UK will be challenged to come up with innovative and enterprising ways to sell One Water bottles. Profits made go to help those who need clean drinking water in Africa.
IBM and MIDAS, Manchester’s Inward Investment Agency, will be exploring how future developments in technology and innovation could impact on business at the Imperial War Museum North.
Barnardo’s will be challenging students on Friday to start with one green paperclip and then undertake a series of swaps or trades to acquire something of a higher value each time. At the end of the competition, all the items acquired will be sold to raise money for the charity.