Under the high patronage of Mr.

Nicolas Sarkozy President of France

Shaping the World of 2050:

the Entrepreneurial Impact
3-6 November 2010, Lyon, France

Mission

Vision

Traditional international organisations are not equipped to face these challenges, being stuck between national interests, bureaucratic burdens or lack of resources. Entrepreneurs can be pivotal in addressing these challenges. On a daily basis, they transform challenges into opportunities. Centred on innovation, risk-taking, creativity, as well as pragmatism, they are able to create wealth and social justice through products, services and sustainable organisations. The world needs more entrepreneurs.

Activities

Our world is facing new and unprecedented challenges, affecting human beings regardless of their country or origin.

The World Entrepreneurship Forum is an international community of entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs, politicians and academics committed to making the world a better place. The Forum fosters entrepreneurship worldwide in order to create wealth and social justice; The Forum encourages all forms of entrepreneurship, integrating economic and social objectives; The Forum mobilises entrepreneurs of all kinds, willing to address our worlds challenges with an entrepreneurial approach.

The World Entrepreneurship Forum focuses its reflections on our world issues, identifying best practices and innovative solutions implemented by entrepreneurs. It organises an Annual Meeting aimed at gathering members from all over the world to share their entrepreneurial experience, come up with recommendations, and implement common actions. Members meet during think-tank sessions, share their experience with a larger audience through Public Workshops; and recognise outstanding international personalities with the Entrepreneur for the World Award. On the regional scale, World Entrepreneurship Centres contribute to the global reflection and actions implemented by the World Entrepreneurship Forum.

 Shaping the world of 2050: the entrepreneurial impact

The best way to prepare the future is to invent it. Alan Kay, Scientist
The 1st edition of the World Entrepreneurship Forum in 2008 was pivotal in defining guidelines aimed at supporting the promotion of entrepreneurial spirit worldwide. During the 2nd edition, governments actions to support entrepreneurship have been screened and selected; and members now benefit from a lobbying tool with the Forum White Paper Encouraging commercial and social entrepreneurship: what can governments do?. For the 3rd edition in 2010, the focus is to design innovative and entrepreneurial solutions to address some of our worlds most pressing challenges at the horizon 2050. 4 major topics will be discussed in the 2010 Forum and will lead to a set of concrete proposals of actions: Creating growth for all: how can entrepreneurs develop innovative, high-growth organisations? Empowering the Base of The Pyramid: how can we support the Base of the Pyramid to become more entrepreneurial? Adapting to massive urbanisation issues: how can we make our cities more entrepreneurial? Educating entrepreneurs: what kind of programmes/initiatives/actions can we imagine and implement in order to promote entrepreneurial behaviours from an early age?

2010 Forums Expected Outputs

The expected outputs of this years Forum are: 1. Addressing our worlds challenges with entrepreneurial tools and solutions:
Innovating and developing high-growth organisations
an E-book focusing on methods to develop high-growth organisations, integrating points of views of actors from the entrepreneurial ecosystem: investors, support networks, entrepreneurs, educators

Developing entrepreneurs at the Base of the Pyramid:

a concrete initiative implemented by World Entrepreneurship Forum members to empower the Base of the Pyramid to be more entrepreneurial.

How to make cities more entrepreneurial?

a tool to study and measure the entrepreneurial attractiveness of cities to be deployed internationally.

Educating entrepreneurs
a World Entrepreneurship Forum methodology to develop entrepreneurial behaviours from the earliest age, to be proposed to governments around the world.

2. Promoting entrepreneurial spirit in society:

Based on the founding charter, members run activities aimed at promoting entrepreneurial spirit in their country. The Forum Scientific Committee will select some of them and will ask corresponding members to present them for discussion at the opening session of the World Entrepreneurship Forum.

3. Measuring 2009 White Papers impact:

This part will be devoted to the current use of the White Paper Encouraging commercial and social entrepreneurship: what can governments do? : how did members use it? With what results? What can be done to have more impact?

Key moments

Activity
Optional programme Managing innovation in traditional sectors Tuesday 2 November, day

Description
Aimed at providing members with best practices and insights on a given topic, it includes company visits and meetings with company founders/ CEOs. A great opportunity to network and take time to discover fellow entrepreneurial leaders. This proposal is a 2010 innovation. It emerged at the specific request of Forum members. Details are featured in the slide below. Aimed at providing initiatives and recommendations on given topics and reserved for members only. 2010 innovation: think-tank sessions will be moderated and facilitated by members, who will be responsible for the output. Aimed at recognising the entrepreneurial achievements and commitment to society of outstanding personalities. The Ceremony is a prestige event hosting 1,000 business and political leaders . 2009 Awardees: Dr. Inamori Kazuo (Entrepreneur, Japan), Sir Fazle Abed (Social Entrepreneur, Bangladesh), Hon.Mary Robinson (Politician, Ireland) and Dr. Bert Twaalfhoven (Expert, The Netherlands). Aimed at sharing the Forums findings and showcasing members experiences on dedicated topics. The general audience is composed of business, social, political leaders and students who are invited to contribute to discussions. 5 workshops: -BoP -En trepreneurial cities -Innovation and high-growth organisations - Educating entrepreneurs -An innovative alliance between entrepreneurs and bankers 2010 innovation: broadcast on the web

Think-tank sessions Wednesday 3, Thursday 4, Friday 5, Saturday 6 November, day Entrepreneur for the World Award Ceremony Thursday 4 November, 7:00 pm

Conference and Public workshops Friday 5 November, 8:30 am 12:30 pm

Public workshops
Friday 5 November 9:00 am 12:00 noon

1. Developing entrepreneurs at the Base of the Pyramid

Definition and specifics of the Base of the Pyramid Characteristics of the BoP depending on the education and social context BoP: the new customer. Strategies for Grand Economy of Scale New business models at the Base of the Pyramid

2. Innovating and developing high-growth organisations

KSF for innovation Best practices and KSF of HGO Differences among countries Next practices in HGO

3. How to make cities more entrepreneurial ?

Current and future challenges faced by cities Enabling entrepreneurship at the heart of cities Best practices New tools to develop entrepreneurship in cities

4. Educating entrepreneurs
Specific competencies of the entrepreneur Best practices and case studies of entrepreneurship education Definition of next practices

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