Still, even with more females joining the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial ranks, the computer science field remains dominated by males, and the numbers have been getting worse.

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At the same time, the transition is going at full speed companies become more transparent, they hire western management and specialists from around the world, embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and shoot for the stars in their effort to make science profitable and elevate homegrown businesses into global companies.

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Spencer is a freshman computer science major at Michigan State University who hopes to harness his entrepreneurial spirit to someday build and run his own software start-up.

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The President continues to be committed to encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in our country, starting with setting a goal of 1 million Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) graduates over the next decade.

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"We have to develop the entrepreneurial spirit in the country, " Brown said in a speech at the London Science Museum, where he was announcing the new policies.

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