{"id":127528,"date":"2025-11-19T06:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=127528"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T07:31:10","slug":"governor-braun-celebrates-hoosier-entrepreneurs-during-global-entrepreneurship-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2025\/11\/19\/governor-braun-celebrates-hoosier-entrepreneurs-during-global-entrepreneurship-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Braun celebrates Hoosier entrepreneurs during Global Entrepreneurship Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tState_of_Indiana_banner-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-106745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tState_of_Indiana_banner-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tState_of_Indiana_banner-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tState_of_Indiana_banner-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/tState_of_Indiana_banner.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Indiana Governor Mike Braun today recognized Global Entrepreneurship Week in Indiana by highlighting new initiatives and measurable results showing the state\u2019s rise as one of America\u2019s best places to start and grow a business.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>News release from Indiana Governor Mike Braun&#8217;s office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Governor Braun Celebrates Hoosier Entrepreneurs During Global Entrepreneurship Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis, Indiana (November 19, 2025) \u2013 Governor Mike Braun today recognized Global Entrepreneurship Week in Indiana by highlighting new initiatives and measurable results showing the state\u2019s rise as one of America\u2019s best places to start and grow a business.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Mike Braun, a Main Street entrepreneur himself, created the first ever Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Indiana to support small businesses. He also launched Power Up Indiana, a new initiative that incentivizes employers to upskill, retrain, and promote their employees.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re working to make Indiana the best place in the country to start and grow a business, and with the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Power Up Indiana, READI 2.0 and our new jobs-and-wages centered economic development model, we\u2019re well on our way to achieving that goal this Global Entrepreneurship Week.\u201d &#8211; Governor Mike Braun<\/p>\n<p>Building on a Record of Results<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Indiana ranks near the top nationally in the Global Entrepreneurship Network\u2019s state leaderboard, as do some Indiana cities: GEW Leaderboard | Global Entrepreneurship Network.<\/li>\n<li>The Indiana Small Business Development Center assisted 5,817 entrepreneurs and helped 372 new businesses launch in 2025.<\/li>\n<li>The Community Collaboration Fund invested $1 million statewide, supporting projects from Fort Wayne\u2019s SEED\/Brightpoint childcare-business accelerator to Muncie\u2019s Innovation Connector, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/16tech.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ignition at 16Tech incubator<\/a> designed to support early-stage collegiate founders, to Purdue Northwest\u2019 s Baby-Boomer Succession Accelerator.<\/li>\n<li>The Office of Commerce\u2019s READI 2.0 program is supporting communities across the state, and gBETA Indiana helped 30 companies raise $500,000 and created 27 new jobs this year across Main Street, agbioscience, and high-tech industries.<\/li>\n<li>Other programs supporting entrepreneurship in Indiana include STARTedUp, which cultivates entrepreneurship skills in students and has reached 13,640 Hoosier students this year, and Innovate WithIN which saw 1,854 students participating in this year\u2019s competition, the largest high school pitch competition in the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hoosier Entrepreneurship by the Numbers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>591,000+ small businesses \u2013 99.4% of all Indiana businesses<\/li>\n<li>1.2 million Hoosiers (43% of the workforce) are employed by small businesses<\/li>\n<li>Indiana\u2019s startup and small business survival rate ranks in the top 5 nationally, with 84% Indiana businesses remaining open after one year.<\/li>\n<li>Businesses under 5 years old account for 74% of new job growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/in\/zoeller_greg.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller. 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