The CEI Essential Elements of Entrepreneurship: Through distillation of research of best practices and many discussions with business and community leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors, CEI has defined a strategic plan to lead and enable development of the Essential Elements of Entrepreneurship.
Going Forward: CEI is Fueling Entrepreneurship West Michigan has a legacy of entrepreneurship. All of our regional dimensions and complexities, coupled with our collaborative smartness and generous nature, lend to our entrepreneurial uniqueness. CEI will champion our legacy and uniqueness, and through solid vision, mission, and strategic plan accelerate regional entrepreneurship. The CEI plan is focused on four elements of entrepreneurship: culture, talent, advisory resources, and capital, while simultaneously working to influence entrepreneur-friendly policy and regulations, public-private partnerships enabling
access to markets, and the branding of our region as the place to be an entrepreneur. We want to be sure business men and women are offered the support and encouragement they need to achieve their business aspirations, within a network that provides much needed access to capital. Focusing on the present and future, while being cognitive of the past’s successes and failures, is a platform on which CEI will drive entrepreneurship and innovation in the region; building a true ecosystem that turns ambition into action.
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