The Queen Rania Center Entrepreneurship (QRCE) is a not-for-profit and non-governmental organization.it was established in October of 2004 and located at the EL Hassan Science City, Jubaiha-Jordan. It's mission is to support economics growth by providing an array of services in entrepreneurship development and technology commercialization through the several programs conducted by QRCE.
Read more on the QRCE websiteQueen Rania Centre for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) announced the launch of the second phase of its strategic plan for the years 2010-2015, which will focus more on supporting various and the growing needs of Jordanian Technology Entrepreneurs.
Farhan Kalaldeh, QRCE Executive Director said: “QRCE will be moving to the second phase of its strategic plan. Our focus now is on launching a new initiative that includes four programs and over 12 fully integrated components that will help to create a technology ecosystem to support innovation in Jordan.”
To think that a singular effort would create Jordan’s ecosystem for entrepreneurship makes for an unreliable model. Real change will only come from the seamless integration of all the stakeholders working for entrepreneurs. Bilal Hijjawi sheds light on the work of two of Jordan’s most effective entrepreneurship support bodies.
“The few existing efforts focused on building an ecosystem for entrepreneurship in Jordan are great, but each of them will create what I’ve started to call a ‘mini-ecosystem’,” said Farhan Kalaldeh, who took the reins as Executive Director of Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) last month.
Amman – Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship will represent Jordan at the Global Entrepreneurship Week GEW in Dubai, joining leaders in entrepreneurship from 88 countries.
The Congress serves as the forum for sharing best practices from around the world and to develop new ideas, as the assembly presents a real opportunity to examine the futuristic horizons for the sector and provide support for the entrepreneurship spirit in different sectors in society.
ArabNet 2010 is the first international conference for the Arab web industry, bringing together leaders from across the MENA, Europe and Silicon Valley to discuss cutting-edge trends and emerging opportunities.
Are you Jordanian? Do you have an idea for an internet venture but need help bringing it to life?
Apply now for the Ideathon at the ArabNet 2010 Conference. The Ideators of Ideation Labs will be there taking a look at your ideas guaranteeing at least one of them to come back to Jordan for implementation based on the Ideation Labs model.
DART, the Student Entrepreneurship Society, concluded in collaboration with Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship, the training program that was held at Princess Sumaya University for Technology. The training program titled “Unleash the Entrepreneur” aims at developing the entrepreneurial spirit among participating students, increasing their awareness on entrepreneurship and managerial work, locally and regionally. The intensive course was attended by over 50 students from the Jordanian University, the Hashemite University, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, and Jordan University for Science and Technology. During the 4-day long program, trainers shed the light on key topics and major issues chiefly on personal development and entrepreneurial skills growth. The training program comprised courses titled “External Relations Management”, “Event Management”, “Unleash the Entrepreneur in You”, “Social Media Training”, as well as a course on Soft Skills which outlined communication and presentation skills. Remarkably, DART Student Entrepreneurship Society is an initiative by Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship that aims at bridging the gap between academia and the business and industrial worlds by actively holding specialized sessions and workshops to reflect the needs of the labor market.
Social Entrepreneurship is about taking care of social environment and the development of the community, and social entrepreneurs are not like any other business entrepreneurs, their main concern is not the benefit but their main concern is the development of the society and how to make a good impact on the place where they live, and they are not like the other Non-for-Profit organizations as they don’t look for small scale development on specific programs and projects but they work on having a long term development plans on the society they live in.
So we can call the Social Entrepreneurship is the approach we take seeking for the development of the community and the society.
The concept of Social Entrepreneurship is new concept but the human history is filled with names and ideas that changed the world and developed the community and left everlasting impact in different fields, like Economic, Politics, Health and more.
In names we can read, Florence Nightingale (founder of the first nursing school and developer of modern nursing practices), also we can read Robert Owen (founder of the cooperative movement), and also Muhammad Yunus (Founder of the first Village Bank – Bangladesh).
Nowadays with the openness of the world and with the increasing number of populations in the communities, such kind of entrepreneurs started to think about structuring their work in more organized manner to be able to leave a better impact on the society, so that they started to think about making ventures and organizations to be responsible about delivering the messages that they are concerned about, and here the concept of social enterprise appeared to the surface.
The social enterprises are those social driven organizations that care most of all about accomplishing a social benefit through specific programs they run, and most of the times they don’t look for profit but the main thing they look for is the social and environmental development.
WORDS: Mohd M. Khawaja
As an addictive social media activist, I always face people questioning the ability to achieve a “real” social change using social media.
People –at the offline world- used to believe that video & photo sharing, tweeting and networking are designed only for fun and entertainment, while there is a lot we can do when we become part of any of this growing digital social networks.
Social media is the new media!
Answering this big question has always been an issue for startups looking for investment.
Placing a valuation on young companies is a challenging tricky game, but it’s one small-business owners have to know how to play, especially when investment capital remains stubbornly scarce.
There has been several approaches to valuate your company:
1. Asset Valuation
It can be done by looking at the current assets of the company (should be shown in the balance sheet). You have to include physical assets: including machinery, office furniture, computers, inventory, prototypes (and the cost to develop them), and Intellectual Property including patents and trademarks.
Global Entrepreneurship Week, an international initiative observed in over 80 countries annually, concluded Sunday, November 22. For the first time, the event was held in Jordan and featured a slate of panels, trainings, speakers and activities in which 400 local, Arab and international entrepreneurs and business leaders took part.
Jordan will participate in Global Entrepreneurship Week taking place November 16-22, 2009 with a slate of activities focusing on entrepreneurs at all stages of growth and featuring leading entrepreneurs from around the world, the region and the Kingdom.