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Proclamation 8747

National Entrepreneurship Month, 2011

This proclamation designates November 2011 as National Entrepreneurship Month, celebrating entrepreneurs and highlighting the Obama Administration's Startup America initiative and the America Invents Act. It calls on Americans to commemorate the month with appropriate programs and activities but contains no binding policy directives or mandates.

Federal Register Open PDF 76 FR 68619

Impact dates

  1. Global Entrepreneurship Week begins

  2. National Entrepreneurship Month begins

Key directives

  • Proclaim November 2011 as National Entrepreneurship Month
  • Call upon all Americans to commemorate this month with appropriate programs and activities

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation of November 2011 as National Entrepreneurship Month

Near term (90d)

  • Global Entrepreneurship Week beginning November 14, 2011

Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • No substantive policy directives; purely commemorative
  • References to Startup America and America Invents Act are descriptive/contextual, not operative
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