What is your vision of an entrepreneur? What skills, characteristics and qualities do you see as most important in entrepreneurship?
How can they be nurtured through society, education, and government?
What does it mean to be an entrepreneur today?
According to Peter Drucker "Entrepreneurship is not 'natural'; it is not 'creative'. It is work..". What is your experience or exposure to entrepreneurial ventures?
Can entrepreneurs create a better society or just better profits from uncovering opportunities?
Can entrepreneurs be better at addressing social needs than public services?
What is needed to launch a start-up in today’s business environment,
make it successful and keep it alive?
How do you create an entrepreneurial spirit in mid-sized/large organizations
and in public services?
How can we better embed entrepreneurial thinking and action into business and society?
How can entrepreneurial management lead the way back to innovation
and growth for our economies?
Will the successor of the welfare state be the Entrepreneurial Society?
Your vision of the Entrepreneurial Society: What will it look like ten years from now?
1. Thanigai Muthusamy (IN)
"Educating for the Entrepreneurial Society. A reality check on the current education system to prepare citizens for a society of constant change and innovation"
2. Thiviya Kumaran (SG)
"New Entrepreneurs - Chameleons who changed the 21st Century"
3. James Guild (SG)
"Above All, Try Something"
| 4. Brittany Salas (DE) "Inclusive Entrepreneurship in a Knowledge Economy" | ESSAY |
| 5. Trang Nguyen (US) "You have to see it and you have to be brave" | ESSAY |
| 5. Bernhard Gapp (CH) * "The State of the Entrepreneurial Society in Africa: Blockchain and the Potential of Leapfrog Technologies" | ESSAY |
| 7. Bao Tran Tran (VN) "On Entrepreneurship - The art of knowing yourself and understanding your community" | ESSAY |
| 8. Kanishk Patel (IN) "The Pokemon generation – Exploring and creating the new age" | ESSAY |
| 9. Ann Sofie Cloots (UK) "On Drucker and Disney - A fairly simple tale" | ESSAY |
| 10. Lauren Barney (US) "The Pattern of the Climb: a Guide to the age of Entrepreneurial Innovative Success" | ESSAY |
* HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE ESSAY
1. Boma Harahap (ID)
"Social Enterprises & Community Organizations Participations to Move Economy and Society - Lessons from Peter Drucker"
2. Milena Milicevic (SR)
"In the Time Machine with Peter Drucker and Millennial Entrepreneurs"
3. Kelsey Truman (US)
"Free is Me - What Moves Our Economies is What We Do for Free"
| 4. Pranjal Kalra (IN) "India - The rise of the Entrepreneurial Society?" | ESSAY |
| 5. Emiliya Manvelyan (RU) "Entrepreneur today – a hard working creator." | ESSAY |
| 5. J. Tolentino-Deludet (UK) "Intrapreneurialism: the next step for society's progression" | ESSAY |
| 7. Clement Saudu (NG) "The New Entrepreneurs - Movers and Shakers in Economy and Society?" | ESSAY |
| 8. Laura-Jane Parker (UK) "A Mission for the Entrepreneurial Society: Bring me your disengaged, your disenfranchised" | ESSAY |
| 9. Jaime Muñoz (US) "On your Mark...Get set...Agile: Winning the Innovation Race in today's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem" | ESSAY |
| 9. Onwuchekwa Ojike (NG) * "The Modern Internet-Entrepreneur`s Disruption of the Society" | ESSAY |
* HONORABLE MENTION FOR THE MOST CREATIVE ESSAY
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