Newsroom: Global News Archive 2004

August 29 - September 4

Public-private partnership in social entrepreneurship
Trinidad & Tobago Express - Trinidad and Tobago
In my article of August 5, 2004, in the Express, I raised the question-"Is
social entrepreneurship the answer?" I will pursue this issue further as my search... <MORE>

Tech venture capitalists perk up
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France
In the world of venture capital, it may not be the best of times. But it
is sure not the worst, either. Four years after the Internet... <MORE>

Guide for Indian Entrepreneurs
Times of India - India
... have no money.". His book, one of the first ever on young entrepreneurship in the country, is called Build From Scratch...<MORE>

Retirees Urged To Go Into Trading Business
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
Bandar Seri Begawan – Retirees may go into trade and entrepreneurship to upgrade their image and socio-economic standing, the Minister of Religious Affairs... <MORE>

'Education system should highlight importance of entrepreneurship'
Times of India - India
CHIDAMBARAM: The education system in the country should highlight the importance of entrepreneurship and also prepare students to start their own enterprises... <MORE>

Stanford students bring models of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship to Singapore
Today (Singapore) - Singapore
At the inaugural Global Entrepreneurship Conference on Wednesday, organised by Stanford ATI and NTU, budding entrepreneurs learned about how the successful... <MORE>

Ministry launches LEA, SBC to foster small entrepreneurship
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
... Enterprises (SMMEs) sector by coming up with work programmes that are implementable and sustainable in areas such as entrepreneurship training, monitoring and... <MORE>

September 5-11 

Celebrating entrepreneurship
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
The five category winners of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneurship awards announced last night are congratulated by the Minister of Economic Development, Jim... <MORE>

Education must show enterprise
ic Wales - Wales,UK
Some of you may have picked up on the recent announcement regarding the creation of yet another new body to help the development of entrepreneurship in the UK... <MORE>

European Venture Capital Spending Increases 12% on Health Care
Bloomberg - USA
8 (Bloomberg) -- Investment by European venture capital firms such as Schroder Ventures Life Sciences rose 12 percent in the second quarter as new health-care... <MORE>

European Venture-Capital Investment Improves in Second
The Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
This was the highest quarterly amount invested since 2002, according to the European Venture Capital Report released by Ernst & Young and VentureOne, a wholly... <MORE>

Industry slams job reservations
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
... debate. The industry proposal suggests the government should educate, train and encourage entrepreneurship instead of reserving jobs... <MORE>

Punish failure, stifle enterprise
Today (Singapore) - Singapore
... They learn entrepreneurship by being in the right environment. ...
NTU offers 15 different minors, including the newly--launched entrepreneurship minor... <MORE>

VC University
Warsaw Business Journal - Warszawa,Morocco,Poland
Post-graduate study in "corporate restructuring and development through venture capital"-now brought to you by MCI Management, SA and the Wy¿sza Szkola... <MORE>

Korea's Regulatory Climate Stifling Entrepreneurship
Korea Times - Seoul,South Korea
... Barriers to entrepreneurship in Korea, of which administrative burdens on start-ups of business firms are major components, were among the highest among 27... <MORE>

September 12-18

New entity to promote entrepreneurship
AzerNews - Azerbaijan
A coordination center of financial institutions engaged in supporting entrepreneurial development in the country has been set up... <MORE>

UYF Finances Young Entrepreneurs With R100m
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... It forms part of one of the UYF's major programmes, Youth Entrepreneurship, which aims to increase the number of entrepreneurs and address unemployment amongst ... <MORE>

Is entrepreneurship in the Middle East expanding?
Daily Star - Beirut,Lebanon
By William Fisher. The United States spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually for economic aid to developing countries. A... <MORE>

Financing Your Dream... Wealth Building Through Entrepreneurship
Nigeria World - Nigeria
luggish economic conditions in the US over the last 4 years have lead to widespread downsizing, outsourcing and continuous restructuring in the workplace... <MORE>

More private entrepreneurship is answer to joblessness problem
Financial Express.bd - Bangladesh
RAJSHAHI, (BSS): Speakers at the closing ceremony of a four-day small entrepreneurship training course here Tuesday underscored the need for more... <MORE>

Students to graduate to business
BBC News - London,England,UK
The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship is an independent company which will aim, it says, to increase graduates' career options... <MORE>

Helping hand for business
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK
The New Business Entrepreneurship Programme will be available from next month. Diane Bradley, from Wirral Waterfront ... <MORE>

$35M of venture capital cash up for grabs
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
...The government fund, established in 2002 to pump $100 million into the venture capital market, has so far invested $9.4 million of public money in 13 ICT and ... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship: Small firm focused on fabrics
The Nation, Thailand - Bangkok,Thailand
At the age of 42 former insurance salesman Narit Boonsathit reinvented himself as a producer and distributor of woven cotton and native fabric products under a ... <MORE>

Culture clash stunts Pacific school, business success
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
...It found that training for entrepreneurship needed to include positive role models from Pacific cultures, workshops addressing issues such as family values... <MORE> 

Korea's Regulatory Climate Stifling Entrepreneurship
The Korea Times - Seoul, South Korea
...Barriers to entrepreneurship in Korea, of which administrative burdens on start-ups of business firms are major components, were among the highest... <MORE>

September 19-25

Business applauds skills push
The Australian - Australia
... step in Labor's efforts to woo business with a... they would increase industry control over skills formation... executive, Peter Hendy, said the new Institute of... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship: Expansion in the works
Daily Times, Pakistan
JA: Karachi is my birthplace. I studied up to intermediate level. My father was a steel and iron trader. I am married with seven daughters. ... <MORE>

Entrepreneurship Club Goes Global
HarBus.org
This summer, in a move to further extend the reach and impact of HBS students and alumni worldwide, The Entrepreneurship Club of Harvard Business School ...  <MORE> as family values... 

Culture clash stunts Pacific school, business success
The New Zealand Herald - Auckland, New Zealand
Pacific Island students are failing in their schooling because they struggle against a culture clash with a European education system... <MORE>

September 26 - October 2  

Online entrepreneurs see new baseball business model
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
... the baseball business would be sufficiently profitable if a new business model were... 500 million yen within five years of the team's formation, surpassing TV... <MORE>

Expensive Loans Killing Entrepreneurship - IMF
AllAfrica.com - Africa
Lack of access to affordable loans is the biggest restriction for budding entrepreneurs in Uganda, and is hampering growth, the International Monetary Fund ... <MORE>

Nature versus nurture - just how is a self-starter born?
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,United Kingdom
... How else would you explain this year's Global Entrepreneurship Monitor from the Hunter Centre at Strathclyde deeming a land-locked, poverty-stricken African ... <MORE>

Venture capital reaping a fortune
The Australian - Australia
WHEN the Australian Venture Capital Association convenes for its annual conference in Surfers Paradise today the delegates are likely to in a jubilant mood. ... <MORE>

New entrepreneurs on road to success
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
The training programme is run by the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation's (Unido) Arab Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship and Investment ... <MORE>

County bosses back campaign
Shropshire Star - Telford,England,UK
Chancellor Gordon Brown launched Make Your Mark, a campaign aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship. The initiative will culminate... <MORE>

The Herald Business Debate: Entrepreneurs
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,United Kingdom
... Its business birth rate inquiry placed Scotland way down in the lower leagues, both within the UK and internationally, for new business formation, set targets ... <MORE>

30 Free Ramadhan Booths In Bunut For Entrepreneurs
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
... The offer should be fully made use of by unemployed young people who wish to meet the challenge and embrace entrepreneurship for adequate financial needs ... <MORE>

New tide of investment in start-ups
The Standard - Hong Kong
... in China is phenomenal compared with the United States and Europe,'' says Robert Yung, general partner of GSR Ventures, a Sino-US venture capital firm with US ... <MORE>

Indonesian businessmen urge new govt to crack down on corruption
Xinhua - Beijing,China
... 100 days, the new president should have the boldness to fire all corrupt government officials who have been extorting money from the business community, Sofjan ...  <MORE>

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