Reporting from my first stop this year in Germany, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has launched GEW / Germany (Gründerwoche Deutschland) with a balloon contest. The sky full of balloons all over Germany speaks for the many members of the country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
GEW / Germany 2011 casted its shadow even before November arrived. Over 200 business start-up consulting and development stakeholders met for an exchange of views at the first nationwide Networking Congress in Berlin, hosted by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. At the event, participants attended various expert forums to discuss issues such as the role of social media in supporting start-ups or how a sense of entrepreneurship can be nurtured in school children. Ernst Burgbacher, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and Commissioner for SMEs and Tourism, stated at the opening of the Networking Congress that Global Entrepreneurship Week in Germany is a key measure of the Federal Economics Ministry’s start-up initiative.
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