Global enterprise challenge
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The Global Enterprise Challenge, formerly known as the Enterprise Olympics, arose as a result of an international collaboration between Ken Baker, then Chief Executive of the Enterprise New Zealand Trust, and Gordon McVie, who was at that time with Scottish Enterprise. This challenge is a high-powered student business competition, involving Internet technology and global competitors, and in 2008 was hosted by Australia courtesy of Norman Owens, founding Chair of Australian Business Week.
The challenge is aimed at secondary and pre-university students from all over the world.
Participants this year came from:
- England
- Scotland
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Wales
- Norway
- Germany
- USA
- Singapore
- Japan
- Korea
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Poland
Japan and Wales joined the Australian students in Sydney, and Germany hosted a EuroHub in Mainz and were joined by England, Norway and Scotland.
List of Winners:
2002 - New Zealand
2003 - New Zealand
2004 - Scotland
2005 - Germany
2006 - Wales
2007 - USA
2008 - New Zealand
The online judging format introduced this year was very successful and for the first time allowed for detailed feedback to the participants. Congratulations to Team New Zealand, now triple winners, and to Germany and Korea joint winners of the Creativity Award.
GEC Creator and Event Convener, Gordon McVie, said that 2008 had seen the bar raised yet again as the young people responded to a very difficult challenge in ways that astounded organisers and judges alike.
Planning has already started for GEC 2009 which will be hosted by Scotland at the University of Strathclyde as part of the Homecoming Scotland 2009 celebrations, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national poet and international icon, Robert Burns.
For a full account of GEC 2008 check out the link below:
