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Entrepreneurial wish list
Mon, 16/11/2009 - 17:13 — Mark Williams
Writing in the Times Online today, Julia Hobsbawm, founder of the media, analysis and networking company Editorial Intelligence, drew up a wishlist of five things she would like to see happen in the next five years to help entrepreneurs:
1 "Create a business levy to invest directly back into the entrepreneur economy by lowering corporation tax but ring-fence it for reducing the business failure rate among start-ups by 10 per cent every five years."
2 "Create a national networking service to match businesses with potential customers and use the BBC and Channel 4 to run more programmes about entrepreneurship and to publicise initiatives."
3 "Create go-between 'business matrons' to join up the dots in person, not just online. Work with private initiatives such as the Coutts & Co entrepreneurs’ forum to identify groups of entrepreneurs."
4 "Create a magazine, website and TV channel, similar to Teachers’ TV, for entrepreneurs. Have SMEs compete to be featured. Showcase real talent and create a live community."
5 "Make entrepreneurship and workplace mentoring a key part of the curriculum in schools and further education, with tax breaks for businesses that invest in well-run work placements, and an entrepreneur council that will reports to government and the country at large each year on how well the entrepreneur economy is doing."
What do you think? Do you have any new ideas you would like to add to the list?
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WIthout a doubt there is a heck of alot such as the above the government could be doing to push entrepreneurialsm in this country and i think some of the work Dragons Den Peter Jones does with this cause is good - but still a long way to go.
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