32 S & ACTIVITIES ground-breaking research; and creating new initiatives, programmes, events and concepts to continually grow entrepreneurship. we believe in combining the best talent in academic thought-leadership with practical programmes on the ground that work. Recognising the Centre’s role as a key player in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, we are committed to developing and implementing strategic programmes to enable the target markets to ‘graduate’ from their existing very small enterprise (VsE) status to a small and medium enterprise (smE) status with higher levels of operations and profitability. As the world of business celebrated global Entrepreneurship week on 21 november 2019, the Centre, in partnership with thebe foundation, launched a Business summit initiative. the initiative will enable aspiring black entrepreneurs to gain access to significant supply chains. the Centre also engaged 1 181 smEs through the following hosting events, such as the dr Richard maponya think tank and lecture, thebe foundation trust and uJCE Business summit, student Entrepreneurship thursdays and the student Entrepreneurs market, start-up grind Johannesburg and let’s talk Business workshop. Our Entities and Activities OUR NTITIES & ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES OUR ENTITIES & ACTIVITIES
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