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Published Date: 14 May 2008
By Jonathan Levie
FIGURES released this week in the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report for the UK suggest that, despite a relatively favourable climate for start-ups, a general belief that there were many opportunities to start a business, and relatively high confidence in their own abilities, few people in Britain expected to start their own business in the near future.
In 2007, almost 6 per cent of working-age adults in the UK were actively trying to start a new business or running their own new business, according to a survey of 42,713 working-age adults. This "early-stage entrepreneurial activity" rate was the sa...



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  • Last Updated: 14 May 2008 11:11 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Abel Magwitch,

14/05/2008 04:17:39
There has not been much entrepreneurial culture in Scotland for quite a while. Among the white collar class, the aim was to get a sound pensionable job in a bank or perhaps in ICI. The blue collar folk held to a tradition of working generation after generation in a massive local industry like mining (Lanarkshire)or shipbuilding (Glasgow and Clydebank). The question now is, has the culture changed much?

 

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