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Global Entrepreneurship Week UK has been running in the UK since 2004 as Enterprise Week. Check out the reviews, stats and photos from all the previous years.

Global Entrepreneurship Week 2009

The second Global Entrepreneurship Week took place from 16 - 22 November 2009. It was a tremendous success with 88 countries getting involved! Read on for reports, photos and videos.

Reports from around the UK

We get sent lots of lovely reports and press releases from event organisers across the UK. And we want to share them all with you! So read on…

(If you have any case studies, reports or press releases, please email them to sarahsummers@enterpriseuk.org)

Photos

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Official reports and stats will be coming soon. In the meantime, check out the round-up videos, photos and more in the Week Live section.

Enterprise Week 2008, part of Global Entrepreneurship Week

The fifth Enterprise Week became part of the first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week and was a phenomenal success with 644,000 people attending 6,363 events all over the UK. Lots of different types of organisations got involved, including third sector organisations, public sector organisations, private sector organisations, schools, FE colleges, and universities.

The first ever Global Entrepreneurship Week saw:

  • 24,966 events in 77 countries
  • 3.06 million event attendees
  • 8,892 partners
  • Powerful support from world leaders, including the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Presidents of France and Portugal, the King of Morocco and government ministers from over 20 countries
  • Endorsements from business leaders including Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Russell Simmons (Def Jam Records) and Pan Shiyi (SoHo China)

Of the 3.06 million attendees, 90% were under 30 years old and 66% were women and girls.

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Enterprise Week 2007

The fourth Enterprise Week saw more than half a million people attending over 5,200 events. Take a look at the summary, post-event survey, and film below.

Enterprise Week photos:

MYM Taxi - EW 07Make Your Mark in 60 seconds logoThe Future Face of Enterprise policy eventStudents at Hereword College for the Disabled in Coventry give the MYM Challenge a big thumbs upStudents from Hereward College, Coventry, debate which idea to make happenStudents pitch their Challenge idea to a den of friends and teachersTension mounts as the MYM Challenge teams at Broad Horizons Youth Centre, Coventry, vote for the winning proposalGordon Brown launches Global Enterprise WeekInteractive diagram designed by The bgroup for Enterprise WeekSpeed Mentoring - 12th NovemberFuture Face of Enterprise - networkingFuture Face of Enterprise - international networkingFuture Face of Enterprise - international networkingFuture Face of Enterprise - Stephen AlambritisFuture Face of Enterprise - Ben VerwaayenFuture Face of Enterprise - John HuttonFuture Face of Enterprise - first panelFuture Face of Enterprise - Lucy Neville-RolfeFuture Face of Enterprise - Lucy Neville-RolfeFuture Face of Enterprise - Joanna Shields

Enterprise Week 2006

The third national Enterprise Week was a huge success! 448,000 people attended 3,184 events organised by 1,410 lead organisations.

There are some useful summaries and reports below for you to take a look at.

Enterprise Week 2005

With 2,215 events all across the UK and 408,000 people taking part, Enterprise Week was two and a half times bigger than in 2004!

Enterprise Week 2004

The first ever Enterprise Week was a tremedous success! Over 480 organisations got involved holding a total of 1,172 events.

Enterprise Week 2004: quick facts

  1. Approx. 158,000 people participated
  2. There were 1,172 events across seven days
  3. 481 organisations involved
  4. 850 pieces of press coverage secured

 

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