The 4th World Entrepreneurship Forum was held from November 2 to 5, 2011 in Singapore. Attendants including scholars, experts, students from member institutions, entrepreneurs, and politicians from 60 countries, shared their thoughts on innovation and technology. WEF also introduced 2 new co-founders: City of Lyon, France and Zhejiang University, China. Professor WU Xiaobo, Executive Dean of School of Management Zhejiang University signed an agreement with the entire founding members of WEF. This marks School of Management Zhejiang University would become an official founding member of WEF from 2012, bringing the Forum into a new stage of development.
An Introduction of World Entrepreneurship Forum
The World Entrepreneurship Forum is a global community of entrepreneurs aiming to shape the world of 2050 following an entrepreneurial vision, creating wealth and social justice.
The World Entrepreneurship Forum is an international community of entrepreneurs: business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, politicians, experts, scientists, and academics.
Founded in 2008 by Emlyon Business School and KPMG, joined in 2011 by ACE (Action Community for Entrepreneurship, Singapore) and NTU (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), the Forum aims to find entrepreneurial solutions to our world’s problems. It promotes the entrepreneurial spirit in all fields of society and encourages all forms of entrepreneurship, integrating economic and social objectives.
The World Entrepreneurship Forum acts as:
1. A global think-tank proposing recommendations and developing global actions to tackle our world’s problems in an entrepreneurial way;
2. An international network of entrepreneurs supporting the development of entrepreneurial spirit in society;
3. A center of expertise on entrepreneurship identifying and proposing the next practices in the field of entrepreneurship.
The Think-tank focuses on 4 main issues, challenges to shape the world of tomorrow:
· Creating Innovative and High-Growth Companies, to create millions of jobs around the planet;
· Developing Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid, to alleviate poverty and create new markets;
· Shaping Entrepreneurial Cities, being tomorrow’s centers for innovation;
· Implementing Entrepreneurial Education, to disseminate entrepreneurial mindset, skills, and competencies throughout society, on a lifelong basis.
As a result of its work, the World Entrepreneurship Forum publishes an Annual White Paper, organizes conferences aiming at influencing the global agenda of entrepreneurship.
The World Entrepreneurship Forum is active in 55 countries, through Regional Chapters, its members, and Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum.
