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Proclamation 9667 of October 31, 2017 

National Entrepreneurship Month, 2017 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

National Entrepreneurship Month celebrates one of our Nation’s proudest 

qualities: our innovative, hardworking, entrepreneurial spirit. American entrepreneurs invent and sell fascinating and endlessly useful new products 

and services, creating millions of jobs and driving American global leadership 

along the way. This month, we emphasize the importance of creating and 

maintaining an economic and regulatory environment that helps new businesses thrive and inspires generations of entrepreneurs for the future. 

For America to be the land of opportunity, we must ensure that entrepreneurs 

have access to the capital, markets, and networks they need to get off 

the ground, to finance and build helpful innovations, and to export their 

products and services around the world. My Administration will continue 

its work to eliminate unnecessary, burdensome regulations and to fight 

for a simpler, fairer tax code that eases burdens on doing business and 

enhances access to capital. We want entrepreneurs to spend less time dealing 

with red tape and more time growing their businesses. 

The American Dream should be within reach of all those who work hard. 

For too long, women, despite hard work and a drive to succeed, faced 

significant barriers in achieving their economic vision. Today, we celebrate 

that women entrepreneurs are growing their businesses all over the country. 

The number of women-owned firms is growing much faster than the national 

average for all firms. Our Nation has more than 11 million women-owned 

businesses that employ nearly 9 million people and generate more than 

$1 trillion in revenue. My Administration is committed to expanding opportunities for women entrepreneurs, including by expanding women’s access 

to needed capital and networks, because our economy and our communities 

thrive when women are empowered. 

For our entrepreneurs to thrive, we must protect their innovations, which 

are the result of their long hours of work and years of training. My Administration is committed to ensuring that American and global intellectual property regimes firmly protect American innovations at home and abroad. Our 

entrepreneurs have already done great things with that research and innovation—like bringing us the smartphones that connect us more closely, the 

medicine that keeps us and our loved ones healthy for longer than ever 

before, and the myriad other technologies that make our lives better, at 

home and at work. Our researchers deserve their investments of time and 

effort—their property—to be protected against theft and unfair practices. 

Entrepreneurship has played an important part of my life and the lives 

of my family members. I know that starting and growing a business takes 

tremendous grit and that facing the unknown requires determination. I also 

know that taking on that risk makes our Nation and our world a better 

place. Entrepreneurship is the fuel of our Nation’s economic engine, and 

this month, I call upon Americans to recognize the entrepreneurs who 

strengthen our economy, drive creativity, and increase the vibrancy of our 

great Nation. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 


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51540 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 213 / Monday, November 6, 2017 / Presidential Documents 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2017 

as National Entrepreneurship Month. I call upon all Americans to commemorate this month with appropriate programs and activities and to celebrate 

November 21, 2017, as National Entrepreneurs’ Day. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day 

of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand seventeen, and of the 

Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortysecond. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24293 

Filed 11–3–17; 11:15 am] 

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