Policy, Research, The Future Face of Enterprise

Feature: Global Entrepreneurship: The Party Leaders, November 2009

This year, all three leaders of the main political parties in the UK showed their support for entrepreneurship and Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Feature: Guest Interview: Scott A Shane, December 2009

In 2009 Scott A. Shane was the first recipient of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research; recognising his significant, pioneering and ‘extraordinarily broad’ contribution to the field. Keen to bring lessons of entrepreneurship research to a wider audience, Shane writes a weekly column for Business Week and last year published the highly informative and accessible book, The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors and Policy Makers Live by.

Publication: Evaluation guidance for Global Entrepreneurship Week Hosts

This brochure covers Enterprise UK’s evaluation templates. It’s focused on Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) and is aimed at hosts and partners, but it’s applicable for anyone that wants to measure the effectiveness their entrepreneurship events and activities.

Date Published:

November 2009

Publication: Entrepreneurs, British business and the global economy

More people aspire to set up a business

One in ten people are currently running own business (10%) and a further 17% aspire to set up sometime in the future.

Date Published:

2009

Publication: Transforming behaviours - entrepreneurs in disguise

Attitude problems?

ComRes and Enterprise UK survey into young people’s attitudes towards entrepreneurship

Executive Summary

In June 2009, Enterprise UK commissioned ComRes to conduct a survey of young people’s attitudes towards entrepreneurship and their views about setting up their own business. ComRes interviewed a representative sample of 2019 young people aged 16-30 living in the UK.

Date Published:

November 2009

Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: Can we encourage more entrepreneurship? October 2009

Brits need to stop castigating failure and start giving things a go if we are to create a culture of entrepreneurship in the UK, our panel suggest in the last of our three ‘Enterprising Futures’ videos.

Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: Does entrepreneurship feature in careers advice? October 2009

Entrepreneurship is an underground movement, like rock ‘n’ roll, but education hasn’t caught up with this yet, our panel suggested in the second of our three videos on ‘Enterprising Futures’.

Feature: Enterprising Futures roundtable: How is the economic climate affecting young people? October 2009

The recession has hit an ‘entitlement generation’ – young people who expected to walk straight into a great job and with no experience of previous recessions – according to panellists in the first of our three videos on ‘Enterprising Futures’.

Feature: Guest interview: Clive Lewis, September 2009

Clive Lewis is Head of Enterprise at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the largest accountancy body in Europe– representing over 130,000 professionals worldwide. Clive is a leading public authority and advisor to the Government on SME finance and management. Here he talks to Enterprise Insights about the end of the recession and beyond.

Feature: Guest Interview: Wayne Hemingway, August 2009

Creative entrepreneur Wayne Hemingway, with his wife Gerardine, turned a business selling clothes in a London market into the international fashion label Red or Dead. Wayne is a vocal campaigner for a range of passions, including design, entrepreneurship, social justice and the environment. He was awarded an MBE in 2006 and is a Professor in the Built Environment Department at Northumbria University.