February 24 to March 3, 2007

The Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) at ISB partnered the first ever Entrepreneurship Week India, which was held all over India between February 24-March 3, 2007.Working together with over 160 academic institutes, non-profit associations, and other corporate E Week Partners, ISB launched E Week India concurrently with Entrepreneurship Week USA in a truly global effort.

E Week India was initiated by NEN, a non-profit helping leading academic institutes in India build world-class entrepreneurship programmes. The event, geared to encouraging entrepreneurial thinking and creating a winning ecosystem, generated a nationwide enthusiastic response.

WCED worked with Entrepreneurship Week, to participate actively in the nationwide excitement and two awareness campaigns were organised at the ISB as a part of this event:

• Take the Pledge- Signatures were collected for the I Can, I Will pledge to help create a winning ecosystem in India.

• One-Liner Contest- This contest provided an opportunity for participants to share their thoughts on what entrepreneurship means to them.

Through this partnership, WCED displayed its solidarity with the core purpose of the week to build on the opportunities in India today and to create the way ahead.