WES links education, enterprise and human rights

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Africa's bamboo bike reaches US

Zambia's bamboo bicycles to market in US

Scheme to train young entrepreneurs

Youth entrepreneurs in Africa and Middle East to be trained through UNIDO scheme

�150m for hi-tech start ups

UK government to invest £150m in high tech start-ups

Latest features

Experience of youth

Enterprising solutions to youth unemployment

London 2012 Shot in the arm or shot in the foot

What kind of legacy will be left by London 2012?

Can't see the wood for the trees

Do we need to define environmental entrepreneurship?

Latest events

Non WES thought leadership events

Judge Business School, Darwin Festival Lecture: 'Risky behaviour - entrepreneurial adaptations to the business jungle'

Non WES academic entrepreneurship events

International Social Innovation Conference 2009, Said Business School

Friends of WES events

9th International IEF conference, Istanbul

Latest reviews

Social Enterprise and the Environment

Social Enterprise and the Environment: ESRC-SEC-DEFRA seminar

Climate change and sustainable development

Review of Salih's "Climate Change and Sustainable Development"

Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo

Review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid

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What is the World Entrepreneur Society?

The World Entrepreneur Society is a membership organisation that promotes the role that entrepreneurs play in stimulating sustainable economic development across the world. 

We provide entrepreneurs of all shapes and sizes, from all countries around the world and from any walk of life with the knowledge and networks to realise their dreams. Whether it's money, a business ides, a network, information, research or training that you need, WES has the structure to provide a solution that is right for you. 

What WES does

WES Themes

WES tries to be as inclusive as possible so no area of entrepreneurship is excluded from our remit.  However, to keep things under control a bit, we focus our Forum, events and news under a number of headings:

  • Entrepreneurship across Borders: the global market place for ideas, innovation and technology giving entrepreneurs a shop window on the world
  • Environmental Entrepreneurship: green and clean ideas, innovations, money and networks
  • Youth Entrepreneurship: our future in their hands
  • Social Entrepreneurship: more than just philanthropy
  • Women's Entrepreneurship
  • Creative Entrepreneurship and social media
  • More than Economic Growth: Entrepreneurship and sustainable development from communities to corporate responsibility - how entrepreneurs can provide the sustainable answers to the challenge of economic development

Images on this site

Still photographs of the WES Summits were taken by Sara Haq: http://www.sarahaq.com/.

Images were generously provided by Image Source: http://www.imagesource.com.  Image Source offers a 20% discount on World Portrait images to all WES Fellows.  To see the Gallery, click here. Contact Us to find out more!

WES news: launch of the Asia-Pacific Future 100!

Andrea Krause helped us out with WES 2008 as a student. She has since gone on to be the executive director of the Foundation for Youth Entrepreneurship (FYSE) which launched last week with its Asia Pacific Future 100 program, a program aiming to inspire young people to become
entrepreneurs.

To read more, click here

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Why get involved with WES?

We are living in challenging times but entrepreneurs are the world's lifeline.  Get involved with WES if you want to join the world's best member-led entrepreneurial network:

  • Be informed
  • Be inspired
  • Meet investors and fellow entrepreneurs
  • Meet mentors
  • Network with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, policy makers and business support professionals
  • Meet potential partners, suppliers or customers
  • Learn how to use social media to promote your business
  • Vision the entrepreneurial future

To learn more about membership and fellowship, click here.

Featured Blogs

WES Reports

WES 2008 Inaugural Report

Entrepreneurship in East Africa

Women's entrepreneurship