MIT Enterprise Forum Celebrates GEW
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 14, 2012
Global Entrepreneurship Week Global Partner MIT Enterprise Forum is hosting close to a dozen events during GEW. Founded in 1978, the MIT Enterprise Forum produces programs and events about innovation, technology and entrepreneurship for an engaged community of 50,...
GEW/USA Reaches the Floor of the U.S. Senate
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 14, 2012
Entrepreneurs and the jobs they create were a hot topic during the U.S. political campaigns, and the conversation has continued post-election. This week, Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas called for a unified effort to move forward with legislation to revive the...
CoFounders Lab hosts Meetup in Portland
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 14, 2012
Yesterday, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, CoFoundersLab hosted a Meetup in Portland at Urban Airship, a hot startup in the mobile space based in Portland. Roughly 55 entrepreneurs from the clean energy, healthcare, high tech, sports and other fields...
UNC @ Chapel Hill Brings GEW to Students
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Nov 14, 2012
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week since Monday with a number of events happing on campus, including competitions, panel discussion, and various networking events.
Highlighting Awards and Events in TN during GEW
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Nov 14, 2012
Leaders with the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce honored four local companies and presented one of them with the 2012 Spirit of Innovation Award. This year’s honorees are American Bicycle Group, Motion View Software LLC, Sherman + Reilly Inc. and Woople LLC.
UC Berkeley Conference Covers Latest in Engineering & Innovation
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 13, 2012
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the University of California Berkeley campus once again hosted the A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference. From 3-D printers and flexible electronics to nanotech water filters and high-efficiency solar films...
Southern Cal Mayors Support GEWUSA En Masse
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 13, 2012
Hugo Gonzalez, regional coordinator for GEW/USA in Southern California, wanted to do something that would demonstrate the overwhelming support for entrepreneurship from policymakers in the region. Mission accomplished. Gonzalez and his team with the Small Business...
Northeastern University's Center for Research Innovation Celebrates GEW
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Nov 13, 2012
Northeastern University and its Center for Research Innovation are hosting a series of events through Friday as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. This is the fifth consecutive year that Northeastern has participated in Global Entrepreneurship...
Biosyntia from Denmark wins the 2012 Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition
Posted by Erin Wiley @wileyea
Nov 13, 2012
On the 8th November, Biosyntia from Denmark beat innovative cleantech startups from all over the world to win the coveted the top prize in the Cleantech Open Global Ideas Competition. Biosyntia (biosyntia.com) offers high-performance cell factories for...
College Inventors from UCSD, Johns Hopkins Take Top Prizes
Posted by Chelsea Grieco @C_Grieco
Nov 13, 2012
College inventors with a novel delivery therapy for treating cancer and a way to facilitate suturing in abdominal surgery have taken the top prizes at the Collegiate Inventors Competition during Global Entrepreneurship Week.



