The Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers to understand the global dimensions of entrepreneurship and innovation. It provides a meeting space for participants to gain insights, learn about new research, and connects people across borders to unleash their ideas and transform innovation into reality with the aim to grow economies and expand human welfare.
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2019
GEC 2019 will take place in Manama, Bahrain with delegates from 170 countries. The University of Sheffield, as part of the Global Leadership Initiative, will be taking a team of eight students led by Dr Chay Brooks and Dr Cristian Gherhes to the GEC where they will be identifying and analysing emerging issues from the Congress. The team will provide critical reflections on the global dimensions of policies that aim to promote entrepreneurial-led growth. Throughout the Congress, the team will produce a series of blogs and policy briefs from the event and you can follow their activities via @GLOSSshef and @GECGlobal.
Congress Blogs
What I Would Tell My Younger Self… Advice from Entrepreneurs - Will Szabo
Exploring the Mind of an Entrepreneur: Unlocking the Creative Genius - Salifyanji Simwanza
Food for Thought: What Will We be Eating in 30 Years? - Louise Litten
The Dream of a Technology for Social Good – Or Rather a Nightmare? - Dominik Brauchart
Building Digital Nations: The World at Your Fingertips - Joseph Dunn
Neglecting the Majority: The Need for Inclusive Entrepreneurship - Jocelyne Girgis
How the Kingdom of Bahrain Became a Playground for Entrepreneurs - Lars Hoeylo Kjoellesdal
The West in the East: Is the Western Entrepreneurship Model Truly Global? - Louise Litten
Policy Briefs
Simwanza - How To Become a Global Entrepreneur: Insights and Findings from CEG.
Sazbo - The Failure of Start-ups: a Pandemic?
Girgis - Challenges and Change: Encouraging Youth Entrepreneurship for Economic Development
Zahra - Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle-Eastern Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Litten - Turning a square into a cube: the importance of empowering female entrepreneurs
Policy for Agripreneurship: Building a Sustainable Future - Joseph Dunn
The Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2016
The following pieces were written by members of the GLI team at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC) 2016 in Medellin. The GLI team working as policy analysts at the GEC consists of Winnie Liu, Dom Keogh, Elizabeth Kohorn-Hill, Ellen Peacock, Jon Harvey, and Zi Y Huang.
Conference Blogs
Elizabeth Kohorn-Hill - Innovation, Productivity and ‘Long Term Economic Plans’
Chay Brooks and Tim Vorley - A Meeting of Minds: Attending the Global Entrepreneurship Congress
Tim Vorley - Reimagining Medellin as an Innovative and Entrepreneurial City
Ellen Peacock - Western bias at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress