Nigeria has joined the growing roster of countries to have officially gotten their Global Entrepreneurship Week campaigns off the mark. On a lively opening night in Lagos, a mix of policy makers, financial institutions, academics and 254 Nigerian SMEs were present to witness the launch and discuss the event’s theme, ‘Building credible SMEs in tough Read more…
This week saw the small island nation of Mauritius getting its Global Entrepreneurship Week preparations off to a big start with the Entrepreneurial Training Workshop. The programme has been organised by the Week’s organisers on the island, Empretec Mauritius. This week’s ETW is one of a series of six Workshops that Empretec is organising in the build Read more…
Northwest Ambassador Chris Arnold has launched a worldwide competition which will see participants compete and develop skills in enterprise and social responsibility. The winners will receive a once in a lifetime prize to travel the world for a year meeting entrepreneurs and world leaders.
‘Your Big Year’ is an official ‘Global Entrepreneurship Week’ event that provides Read more…
Nationally we’re all of a quiver about the general election, the closest fought battle for many a year and like a good slap-stick comedy we’re all watching just to see who walks over the open man-hole next, or which guy ducks when the guy with the ladder over his shoulder spins round. We’re not nearly Read more…
Enterprise UK is running a series of ‘Manifesto Camps’ exploring the biggest issues for entrepreneurs in the UK and how these problems could be solved; with ideas feeding into the Enterprise Manifesto.This week’s session looked at the future of entrepreneurship, including the best ways to encourage social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Setting the scene for Read more…
The first session discussed enterprise culture and how to develop young people’s entrepreneurial potential through education. The importance of role models was also brought up, along with the need to educate parents that entrepreneurship is an acceptable career path. The old question of whether entrepreneurs are born or bred arose.
In terms of the school curriculum, we need to re-examine what students are assessed on. It was also emphasised that being entrepreneurial is not only about starting a business but about starting anything in life.
This week’s session looked at the enterprise environment and how to make the UK the easiest place in the world to start and grow a business. Guests were asked to imagine enterprise heaven and describe what that would look like. Everyone’s thoughts drifted towards a simple, virtual, 24/7 one-stop-shop for entrepreneurs. It was suggested that everyone could have an Enterprise Passport, collecting ‘credits’ for entrepreneurial activities.
Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel has won the coveted DediPower Digital Award 2010. The trophy was presented by Rt Hon Stephen Timms, MP, Minister for Digital Britain, at a special ceremony in London, last week.
Fluid Pixel, a business offering innovative applications, games and interfaces for mobile phones, the web and desktops won the first prize Read more…
In 2008 we (Enterprise UK – or Make Your Mark as we were known back then) published ‘The Future Face Of Enterprise’, a collection of viewpoints. We asked over 50 entrepreneurs, business people, industry experts, social commentators, academics what they thought would shape the future face of enterprise in the UK.
Two years later and we’re Read more…
Calling for innovative and practical policy ideas towards a collaborative Enterprise Manifesto
Well according to Ganesh Selvarajah, an adviser at the government-backed business support service Business Link, the holy grail for small retailers is knowing how to target new customers. He directly answers a question about this on the BBC website and he makes some interesting suggestions to one small business owner about the demographics of the Read more…
Last week I managed to bag myself a ticket to the media140 Third Sector event held at We Are Social in London. The event focused on how Social Media is and can be used in third sector organisations with talk and debate from leading advocates in the industry. Safe to say being a bit of Read more…
A NEW chapter is set to unfold in Sunderland’s maritime history as the first of a new generation of wave-powered energy generators sets sail.
The first tidal generator to be manufactured at the site of the city’s former shipbuilding yards is now complete and will be shipped to Humberside where it will be put into action Read more…
There were some confused faces around the Nissan Manufacturing Plant yesterday as their site was invaded by a Polar Bear! Lucky for them this one was harmless and in fact wanted nothing more than to tell them all about Global Warming and protecting the environment.
Percy the Polar Bear is the main character in a series Read more…
Inspired by Global Entrepreneurship Week a group of UK entrepreneurs have decided to sell the world’s first 24 Hour Start Up on ebay!
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