Weekly Update from Build A Stronger America - Issue 6 - November 17, 2009
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Kauffman Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Global Entrepreneurship Week Nov. 16-22, 2009
Global Entrepreneurship Week began yesterday. Here are some of the key events happening around the country this week.
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Tuesday, November 17 - Global Clean Tech Open. The Clean Tech Open is the world's largest clean technology business competition. The first ever Ideas Competition is taking place as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. National winners will compete at the Global Awards Gala on Tuesday in San Francisco, CA.
- Wednesday-Friday, November 18-20 - Global Student Entrepreneur Awards. This is the final competition of the year awarding the best student entrepreneurs from around the world and the 2009 Global Student
Entrepreneur Awards Global Title. The event is hosted at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, MO.
Starting Up — Doing It Right, Doing It Wrong
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Let's hear it for the next generation. Four in ten U.S. young people ages 8 to 21 have or would like to start their own business, and 63 percent agree that they have the ability to successfully start their own business.
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