"We do not often enough connect the bottom line to efforts to make a safer world."

We often talk a good game in Silicon Valley about how entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon. In the last week of June, we lived it. Headlined by US president Barack Obama, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) drew some of the biggest names in technology together with more than 1,200 entrepreneurs from 170 countries, government leaders and Silicon Valley executives at Stanford University to put a spotlight on expanding entrepreneurship around the globe.

From the start, the call was for championing…