World Conference on Small Business

icsb2005.bmpI will be posting this week from Washington, DC, where I am chairing the 50th Annual Meeting of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). There will be over 600 attendees exchanging ideas about both educating entrepreneurs and public policy isssues related to entrepreneurship. I will be sharing some of the highlights of what is presented and discussed at this exciting conference throughout this week.
The International Council for Small Business founded in 1955 is the oldest and largest global membership organization dedicated to examining and discussing issues affecting the teaching, research and delivery of entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise world-wide. Collectively, the over 2,000 members of the ICSB through their eleven national affiliates work and assist tens of thousands of individual currently in business or desiring to start a business relatively soon.
The leading teachers, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners interested in entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprise are attending this conference. It will have attendees from around the world including Europe, Brazil, Japan, Republic of China, Singapore, Korea, Southern Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Canada, Puerto Rico/Caribbean, and the United States.