The Second Entrepreneurship Summit titled "Entrepreneurship, Values, and Development" was held in Istanbul, Turkey on December 3-6. 
The Summit is the follow-up of the US President Barack Obama`s initiative which began in 2009 and the First "Entrepreneurship Summit" hosted by the US in 2010.
The event attended by the Ministers of some countries, US Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, US president`s special envoy in OIC Rashad Hussein, also featured a presentation of the Islamic Countries Youth Entrepreneurs Network (ICYEN was founded in Baku conference on November 22-23).
A presentation of "Ten young Muslims who can change the world" Awards which was founded at the initiative of vice-president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation, General Coordinator of Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation, ICYF-DC Leyla Aliyeva was also held as part of the Summit. Speaking in the session Secretary General of the ICYF-DC Elshad Iskandarov as well as representatives of Statistical, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRTCIC) and Turkish Union of Chambers and Stock Exchanges hailed Leyla Aliyeva`s relevant initiative and underlined that ICYEN and "Ten young Muslims who can change the world" Awards would contribute to the prospects of youth entrepreneurship.
The speakers added that ICYEN would be a platform for young businessmen and create opportunity for information and experience exchange, stimulation of business activity towards economic development.
The attendees supported the proposal to include the decision on ICYEN` being part of the world business strategy into the final resolution of the Summit.

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