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As Global Entrepreneurship Week comes to a close in the US and 88 countries around the world, U.S. President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation supporting those efforts

Simon Fraser University student Milun Tesovic, founder of MetroLyrics.com, has been named champion of the 2009 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards and the recipient of $150,000 in cash and donated services that will help support his company and development as an entrepreneur.

 As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today unveiled the first indications of how the economic slump has impacted entrepreneurship in the United States and 11 other countries in 2008 and most of 2009. The report, Timely Entrepreneurship Indicators, shows that firm formation declined and exits increased, which economists say could have significant implications for job creation.

Interest in entrepreneurship among first-year college students has risen over time, a recent study reveals. Trends in Business Interest Among U.S. College Students, which is being released today, bases its findings on data available through the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which for 40 years has conducted the CIRP Freshman Survey, the most ubiquitous survey of college freshmen in the United States.

Princeton University Press today announced a publishing partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship, to launch the Kauffman Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), will be streaming its ground-breaking business competition live online this Thursday, Nov. 19, as 30 undergraduate student entrepreneurs compete for $150,000 in cash and prizes.

In the years immediately following the 1990-1991 and 2001 recessions, net job creation came from small, entrepreneurial companies, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. While fostering new business creation could again help the United States move more swiftly toward ending the current recession, little has been known about the factors that cultivate and support entrepreneurialism.

 

The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), the premier competition for undergraduate students running a business while still in school, today announced the top student entrepreneurs from around the world who are scheduled to compete at the 2009 GSEA Global Finals at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri, during Global Entrepreneurship Week. The students represent 18 countries and some of today’s brightest, most innovative and forward-thinking individuals, laying the foundation for economic turnaround across the globe.

Can technological innovation rein in our nation's escalating health care costs? On Wednesday, Nov. 18, luminaries including Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, and Steve Burd, CEO of Safeway, will take up this question at the second annual A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders Conference, titled Translating Technology into Cost-Effective Health Care.

More than 1,000 partners – including top universities, non-profit organizations, successful entrepreneurs, government agencies and corporate sponsors – have currently signed up to support and initiate activities for Global Entrepreneurship Week/USA 2009, Nov. 16 - 22.

Quoting President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address, Secretary Clinton reconfirmed the administration's commitment to boosting entrepreneurship both in the United States and in other countries, where talent is widespread, but opportunity often is not. Secretary Clinton also praised the Kauffman Foundation, a co-founder of the Week, for its efforts to foster growth and opportunity during a difficult economic time.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced that Nicholas M. Donofrio has joined the Foundation as a senior fellow. Donofrio will use his vast experience as an innovator and entrepreneur in technology and science to explore programming opportunities for the Foundation's new initiative, Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation, which is aimed at creating high-growth companies.

FORTUNE Small Business magazine and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the 2009 list of the 50 best places in the United States to launch a business.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today welcomed its inaugural class of Entrepreneur Postdoctoral Fellows for its fall program workshop, the first in a series of workshops planned over the next year. As part of the new Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation initiative, the Fellows program will tap the entrepreneurial potential of 13 brilliant postdoctoral researchers.

A new documentary from award-winning filmmaker Mary Mazzio titled "Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon" will receive screenings around the world as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov. 16 – 22, 2009.