Michelle Mone OBE to lead government review on supporting business start-ups
This article feels like a Duncan Smith re-run of Mary Portas but with a focus on start up businesses. In many rural areas enterprise has been a means of getting by for years. Academics call it new-endogenous growth, some people call it portfolio working, I call it resourcefulness. Let’s hope this review looks seriously at the contribution more start up support could make to sustainable rural settlements and particularly giving young people the chance to live and work in the countryside. Does anyone remember Matthew Taylor?….
Leading entrepreneur and businesswomen, Michelle Mone OBE, has been appointed to conduct an independent review to encourage further business start-ups and entrepreneurship in disadvantaged communities, including areas of high unemployment.
The UK is rated as the best place in Europe and one of the best places in the world to start a business. And as part of the government’s long-term economic plan, nearly 70,000 new businesses have been set up through the New Enterprise Allowance scheme since 2010.