Global Entrepreneurship Week is a chance to sing the praises of our start-ups and strengthen the foundations for them to succeed, says Timothy Barnes Today is the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the world’s largest festival for entrepreneurs and startup supporters. In nearly 200 countries around the world, some 40,000 events are expected to welcome 10m participants to celebrate, learn and develop start-ups and the ambitious entrepreneurs that make them happen. In the UK, hundreds of events are taking place across the country, hosted by schools, universities, charities and private companies.
From market-stall traders and high-street retailers to the latest Artificial Intelligence and biotech companies, entrepreneurship is truly thriving across the UK, with some 800,000 new companies registered each year. Support for these new entrepreneurs, and could-be entrepreneurs, is getting better all the time. There are amazing examples of activities in Hull, Liverpool and Glasgow this week that show just what the future might look like across every region.
Indeed, Global Entrepreneurship Week itself is a UK success story, with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown having taken the lead 17 years ago in turning national Enterprise Week into a worldwide festival, along with partners from the US. We should be proud to have been an early global champion for the power of entrepreneurship to build wealth and opportunity and do that most un-British of things: talk ourselves up. But, while.