Global Entrepreneurship Week opens in Serbia

NOVI SAD - Tuesday marked the official start of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in Serbia and 149 other countries, with millions of people taking part in a wide range of events, activities and competitions throughout the week.

GEW has come a long way since it was founded by the U.S.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2008, and is now a major Global Entrepreneurship Research Network event.

Serbia will host a series of GEW events, all taking place in northern part of the country, until November 23.

A lecture and a student panel discussion on the topic of entrepreneurship will be organized at Mihajlo Pupin vocational secondary school of electrical engineering in Novi Sad and Serbia's creative women entrepreneurs will be brought together by an event in Backi Petrovac, organized by the Women´s Entrepreneurship Academy.

In Srbobran, the Novi Sad-based UNESCO Chair for Entrepreneurial Studies, a GEW top partner, will organize a workshop about oportunities to improve the knowledge and skills of young entrepreneurs.

The Creative Industries Cluster of Vojvodina, another top partner of the week, will present a group of five young entrepreneurs from Serbia who won this year's Creative Business Cup in Serbia.

As national winners, the five young entrepreneurs will be in Copenhagen on Wednesday, November 19, taking part in the Creative Business Cup Finals in Copenhagen, trying to win an award for the best business idea in the field of creative industries.

This year's GEW opens with a new Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) that measures the entrepreneurial ecosystems in 130 countries.

Serbia has been ranked 78th of the 130 countries in the GEI index, and put at the penultimate, 38th...