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Workshop on New Practices in Entrepreneurship and Innovation
June 23, 2009 | Kansas City, Missouri
The Workshop on New Practices in Entrepreneurship and Innovation is a follow-up meeting to the OECD Workshop on New Practices in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, held in Copenhagen in May 2008.
Entrepreneurship Indicators Workshop: Access to Capital Measures
June 25, 2009 | Kansas City, Missouri
The Entrepreneurship Indicators Program attempts to provide a framework that presents a wide range of indicators that can be used together, and not in isolation, by policymakers or academics to look at specific aspects of entrepreneurship. One of the most important pieces of this framework are statistics around "Access to Capital." This workshop is meant to have have an open, focused discussion of the appropriate indicators for the "Access to Capital" portion of the EIP framework, as well as the availability and timeliness of indicators across countries.
The BioEconomy Summit
June 25, 2009 | Santa Clara, CA
The BioEconomy Summit is the first global conference to convene leaders and provide forums for consideration, understanding, and consensus-building regarding issues surrounding the rapidly evolving BioEconomy.
Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy
July 6, 2009 | Incline Village, Nevada
The Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy invites science and engineering doctoral students, post-docs, and research faculty to spend a week learning how to recognize, develop, and bring to market businesses built on their sustainable technology research.
National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute 2009
July 6, 2009 | Cambridge, MA
The 30th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts from July 6 to July 30, 2009.
U.S. Conference of Mayors 2013
June 21, 2013 | Las Vegas, Nevada
The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,301 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.
Entrepreneurship for Development
June 26, 2013 | New York, NY
The thematic debate will discuss promoting entrepreneurship in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication at the national, regional and international levels. It will focus on the role of the United Nations and the international community in fostering entrepreneurship as a tool for development.