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Daniel Isenberg is Professor of Management Practice, Babson Global, and founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project. His most recent HBR article is How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution.

As a Davos novice, I was fascinated to observe how entrepreneurship was reflected in the dialog among the world's movers and shakers at the World Economic Forum. The term "entrepreneurship" has achieved cult status in policy speeches, yet I was disappointed at our leaders' superficiality and wrongheadedness, as well as the topic's de facto low priority here. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Though the Forum has been working diligently in recent years to address the issue with sessions such as "Education-Entrepreneurship-Employment," "Innovation Ecosystems 2.0," and "Fostering Entrepreneurship Ecosystems," it will take time to elevate entrepreneurship to its rightful status — alongside, for example, the environment and corporate governance — as a crucial global policy issue.

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