Ve Interactive is participating in Enterprise UK’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, taking place November 15th-21st 2010. Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate all the amazing work that goes on year-round.

“The world is changing faster than ever in our history. Our best hope for the future is to develop a new paradigm of human capacity to meet a new era of human existence. We need to evolve a new appreciation of the importance of nurturing human talent along with an understanding of how talent expresses itself differently in every individual. We need to create environments – in our schools, in our workplaces, and in our public offices – where ever person is inspired to grow creatively.” Ken Robinson – author of The Element.

Over half of all young people in the UK want to start a business. Yet only 1 in 20 of them actually do! Is it because of our risk-averse culture and the fear of a lack of financial security and the indoctrination of our schools systems, designed to meet the economic interests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when mass education came into being? The main driver of change is now technology and is a revolution that we are only just at the beginning of and should culminate in computers merging with human consciousness. Digital technology has already created jobs that never previously existed, and new opportunities for entrepreneurship are evolving rapidly.

Global Entrepreneurship Week began life as Enterprise Week in the UK back in 2004. When news of the phenomenal success of Enterprise Week in the UK spread the globe, lots of other countries got excited at the potential of running similar initiatives in their own countries. So in 2008, Enterprise UK and the Kauffman Foundation (the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation based in the US) founded the very first Global Entrepreneurship Week. Last year, there were over 32,000 events run in 88 countries, attended by more than 7.5 million people. In the UK, over 529,000 people attended 4,812 events. Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide movement of entrepreneurial people, with millions unleashing their enterprising talents and turning their ideas into reality. Find out what happened in previous years of Global Entrepreneurship Week.

It’s more than just a week

Global Entrepreneurship Week is an opportunity to showcase and celebrate all the amazing work that goes on year-round. GEW partners, (the organisations that run activities during the Week), use Global Entrepreneurship Week to launch something new, showcase their projects, or just generally raise the profile of entrepreneurship in their locality. They do this because we all recognise that entrepreneurship is a force for good. It can lift people out of poverty, enable people to take control of their own lives, or simply turn their passions into profit. During GEW, Ve Interactive will be hosting an Ideas Wall, to involve our employees in the development of their ideas on about business strategy, sales development, product development, creative strategies etc.