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Newsroom: Global News Archive 2004
August
1-7
Education
Comment: Taming Graduate Unemploment With Entrepreneur Education
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... OAU), Ile-Ife took a concrete step to arrest rising graduate
unemployment in the country by approving the integration of
entrepreneurship courses into the... <MORE>
Microcredit Development Fund Helps Transform Household Scraps...
CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
The Deutsche Bank Microcredit Development Fund seeks to alleviate
poverty worldwide by helping microfinance institutions ... <MORE>
Social entrepreneurship the answer?
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Trinidad and Tobago
... The Independent on Sunday article quotes Dr. Alex Nicholls,
lecturer
at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford
University,
as saying that this... <MORE>
Hareidi Entrepreneurship Increasing
Israel National News - Israel
The program hopes to help alleviate the financial woes of the
Hareidi-religious community due to the fact that a large percentage
of Hareidi men engage in full... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship Students Visit IDBB
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
... These students are currently undertaking an entrepreneurship
development training programme for institutional, technical and
vocational graduates... <MORE>
Venture
capital up 31% in first half
China Daily - Beijing,China
... half of the year, as the recovery trend in the technology
industry
became clearer and there were more examples of successful exits of
venture capital (VC) firms... <MORE>
Gifted Saudi Student Set to Show the Way
Arab News - Saudi Arabia
... as Saudi Entrepreneurs and Technology Leaders Association (SETLA),
the proposed association would act as a vehicle for promoting
entrepreneurship and technical... <MORE>
August
8-14
Entrepreneurship
Students win Business Plan Award
Lancaster University Management School - UK
A team of students developing a business plan for U-Wear an import
business in the retail sector have won the Institute for
Entrepreneurship’s Business Plan... <MORE>
Crisis
of Entrepreneurship
Korea Times - Seoul, South Korea
When the economy is facing hard times, people in general have
nostalgia for the good old days. In hindsight, Koreans... <MORE>
Can the ‘nanny state’ promote entrepreneurship?
Malaysia Kini - Kuala
...when it comes to entrepreneurship, it lags behind in global
comparisons. It is... of little surprise that entrepreneurship...
<MORE>
Turning Brits into entrepreneurs
BBC News -
It's easy to identify the objective; less easy to find practical
policies to promote new business formation. How do you... <MORE>
NCCI
Calls On the Young: Embrace Entrepreneurship
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... Once young people involve themselves in entrepreneurship, Mwiya
said, the benefits are that the quality of life would be improved
and jobs would be created... <MORE>
Venture
capital from overseas on the rise
China Daily -
The venture capital (VC) business on the mainland has shown signs of
recovery after making its debut on the mainland not long ago... <MORE>
Students look to combine pursuing profit with improving social
welfare
Taipei Times -
... Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) International Youth
Camp in Taipei declared yesterday that they believe community
service and entrepreneurship to be... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship blooms on 6-day course
The Statesman -
... The course content covers a wide range of subjects:
floriculture, agro-products and areas of entrepreneurship including
production, collection, transportation... <MORE>
Roots gives expats a ‘batter’ place to live
Newindpress -
... their expressions of interest to Roots for identification of the
beneficiary, screening and selection of potential entrepreneurs,
entrepreneurship training for... <MORE>
ntrepreneurship and technical... <MORE>
August
15-21
Asia
Fund View: India Venture Capital Boom Not Over Yet
Yahoo News - USA
SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Foreign venture capital firms have been
riding high on India's growth wave, and although the pace of the
nation's economic expansion is... <MORE>
Xerox
contributes $1-million to McMaster
Globetechnology.com - Canada
... Xerox Canada has announced a $1-million gift to McMaster
University
of Hamilton, Ont., for the building of a new Centre of Innovation
and
Entrepreneurship... <MORE>
Youth
Aim for Increased Business Participation
AllAfrica.com - Africa
The South African youth sector has set itself a five-year target to
reach
the summit of the global entrepreneurship activity index... <MORE>
Venture capital lukewarm to biotech sector
China Daily - Beijing,China
... of China's biotech sector, experts suggest the industry is still
in
its infancy and, as a result, remains too weak to attract foreign
venture
capital (VC)... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship is freedom, feel young businessmen of tomorrow
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
Lucknow, August 16: Excitement marked ‘Nirvan 2004’, a country-
wide
Entrepreneurship Business Plan Contest, organised by the
Entrepreneurship and Venture... <MORE>
CIIE
to promote innovators
Business Standard - New Delhi,India
The Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at
the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, (IIM-A) will
felicitate technology-based... <MORE>
August
22-28
Entrepreneurship
Action Plan
Eurofunding.com - Paris,France
Following the debate launched by the Green Paper on Entrepreneurship
last spring, the Commission has now published an Action Plan based
on the extensive... <MORE>
Israel, India in talks on joint R&D fund
Globes Online - Israel
... The delegation is visiting to learn about Israel's programs for
encouraging R&D, innovation and technological
entrepreneurship...
<MORE>
East
London is start-up hot spot
ic Berkshire.co.uk - Reading,England,UK
East London has been named as the capital of entrepreneurship in new
research that shows more firms starting life in the area than
anywhere else in the UK... <MORE>
Damned
if they do … but we’re damned if they don’t
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Way back in 1993 the agency's focus on Scotland’s comparatively
low level of new business formation had kicked off a national debate
on our appetite for... <MORE>
NZ in thick of free trade moves
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
New Zealand looks set to play a pivotal role in the formation of a
giant free-trade area linking the Asia-Pacific with the Americas...
<MORE>
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