Jonathan Ortmans is the president of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), and was among its founders when it launched in the United States in 2007. GEW is now held in over 115 countries including Lebanon. He is also chair of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress, senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and president of the Public Forum Institute. Ortmans spoke with Executive from Washington, DC on the changes in the global entrepreneurship scene, the role of policy makers, and the responsibility of entrepreneurs in creating a dynamic ecosystem for entrepreneurship. What have been the most recent developments in entrepreneurship on a global level? What’s changed now is that you have a global class of start-up communities all over the world. If I were to draw a picture for a magazine I would draw a flat world, with thousands of start-up communities and no national boundaries. A world where technology and communications has
