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Submit to the Member SpotlightSUPPORT TO MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
SUPPORT TO MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES April 1, 2019 Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are the backbone of the Canadian economy, accounting for 90 percent of the private sector workforce (10.7 million workers) and nearly 40 percent of...
HALCYON INCUBATOR AND THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM – A GLOBAL BEST PRACTICE WITH HEART
HALYCON INCUBATOR AND THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM - A GLOBAL BEST PRACTICE WITH HEART March 25, 2019 The purpose of this paper is to help all stakeholders understand the activities surrounding social entrepreneurs and the current social enterprise ecosystem. To do...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: A NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP DAWN
Middle East and North Africa: A New Entrepreneurship DawnMarch 18, 2019 The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), is one of the most problematic regions in the world. Eight of the nineteen MENA states are among the fifty most unstable countries globally. Four of...
FROM LUXOR TO CAIRO AND BEYOND: THE GREAT AWAKENING
The Egypt Entrepreneurship Summit 2018 (EES2018) that took place in November 2019 was five months ago but it has taken a while to digest what actually took place in the city of Luxor, Egypt. To many, Luxor is known for the Valley of the Kings and LuxorTemple. For the...
Social Entrepreneurship on the SDGs
According to estimates, the total combined consumption by all the human activity around the world is greater than the resources generated by the planet. In other words, every year, the Earth Overshoot Day is being reached earlier, and this overtakes the planet´s...
YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT… OR WHAT YOU NEED
Over the last ten years, Mexican competitiveness and income inequality have remained at a long impasse. Currently, the nation ranks number 51 among 138 indexed nations. YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT... OR WHAT YOU NEEDFebruary 25, 2019 Over the last ten years,...
PLANET OMNI: THE NEW YIN YANG OF BUSINESS
The world is changing. And there are many terms and phrases we hear to describe the dynamic world around us; I like to use VUCA – a term coined to describe the post-Cold War world – Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and, Ambiguous. PLANET OMNI: THE NEW YIN YANG OF...
SCHUMPETERIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS CAPITALIST DIALECTICS
In trying to paintbrush background and scientific "environs" when Schumpeter`s visionary "Theory of Economic Development" (1912) came out, classical and neoclassical thought as well as Marx’ "Capital" (in all its volumes) had been exposed already for some time to...
UNITED NATIONS – DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS/DIVISION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (DESA)
The Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DESA/DSDG) at the United Nations is engaged in a project to support 9 pilot countries (Brazil, Peru, Cambodia, Fiji, Laos, Sri Lanka, Kenya, the Philippines, and Tanzania) to...
CHINA: PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, ACHIEVING WIN-WIN VIA COOPERATION
China highly values the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In March 2016, the Government of China published the Guidelines for the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, which combines the 2030 Agenda with China’s mid-to-long-term development plan. CHINA: PROMOTING...