The Presidential Entrepreneurship Summit and the Rise of the Rest

Today, President Obama and the Departments of State and Commerce host the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. The summit, which features top administration officials and private sector innovators, focuses mainly on how the entrepreneurs and business leaders in the U.S. and Muslim communities can better be linked. Take a look at the agenda here and watch the whole summit live here.

This summit is part of an important part of the administration’s outreach, which began with the President's Cairo speech, to the Muslim world. Importantly, it conveys an understanding of the power of economic connectivity to prosperity and peace. Perhaps the best resource on the topic of the power of economic connectivity and the Muslim world is Vali Nasr’s Forces of Fortune. Another resource that I highly recommend (and I might be a little biased) on the power of economic connectivity to bring people, businesses, and nations into global marketplace is a white paper I released on Friday called The Rise of the Rest: How New Economic Powers are Reshaping the Globe.