Global Entrepreneurship Week

About The Week For one week, millions of young people around the world will join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries across six continents are coming together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity. To think big. To turn their ideas into reality. To make their mark.

Here at Cornell

Cornell's eClips participates daily in entrepreneurship education by providing access to the real world stories of entrepreneurs all over the world. We have 13,672 video clips about the "journey" an entrepreneur or business leader takes when they lead a company to fullfil it's mission. Whether it's the founder who has a "wild vision" of how a product or service could be different or the pre-seed angel investor who sees the value proposition - eClips catalogs and displays for you to find, the "real wisdom" of an entrepreneurs life.

eClips has 526 video clips on "Life As An Entrepreneur" To do your own discovery of different entrepreneurs, click on the links under Our Top Picks for GEW. You need to create a login after three videos. It free, go ahead, try it. You'll be able to bookmark clips you like and email to a friend.

FOR STUDENTS: Check out the Theme Entrepreneurship across the Curriculum. There you'll find video clips that map to courses that you might be taking right now. If you think a video might help the whole class... email the link to your teacher/professor and have them check out eClips. They can download for use right in class.

Our Top Picks for Global Entrepenreurship Week:

Social Entrepreneurship - is the latest buzz in the business. The trend for companies to be socially responsible is strong but stronger is the desire of new entrepreneurs to make a difference in the world... and it is GLOBAL.

Life Science Entrepreneurship - many a scientist has thought about commercializing there idea. They needed to be a "quick study" to become an entrepreneur.

Young Entrepreneurs - Probably "born" not made these young business founders & owners are driven to "do more". They have taken a company by the reins and are learning what it takes to be entrepreneurs.

Failure - It's Not The End Of The World and there won't be only one. Be ready, manage your risk and try again.

Explore Related Themes

Featured Clips on Entrepreneurship from our "business Planning" page

 

Other resources

US Careers Online

Entrepreneurship@Cornell and

the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Virtual Expo - Enter Here

10GoodMinutes.com