Self-employment + Freelancing = Uber-economy?
With UK unemployment at only 5.4%, why has there been a 700,000 increase in self-employment since 2008?
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A Nation of Entrepreneurs
With over 5 million small businesses, is the UK becoming a nation of entrepreneurs and business owners? And if so, is this important?
An “opportunity of entrepreneurs”?
We are all familiar with the collective noun for cattle, dancers and geese [herd, troupe and gaggle] but what about entrepreneurs?
A Golden Age of Enterprise?
Are the various disparate enterprise strands converging to make today the Golden Age of Enterprise? At first glance it is difficult to see the connection between enterprise in schools and the rapid increase in the number of small businesses.
Learning from 30 years of small business research
As the Open University Business School publishes the 30th Anniversary Edition of Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain we can reflect on three decades of research into small firms. What have we learnt?
Top tips for Starting a Business (3 & 4)
Business is personal! It would be easy to get the impression from the media, just think of the Dragons’ Den panel, that entrepreneurship is all about the heroic entrepreneur. Of course, the founding entrepreneur plays a vital role in starting a business.
Top tips for Starting a Business (1 and 2)
Top tip: Enterprise is for life ‘not just for Christmas’! Sometimes it seems that starting a business couldn’t be easier. After all everyone in the UK seems to be doing it! With a working population of 40 million people, approaching 5 million run businesses. Not so much a nation of shopkeepers but a nation of entrepreneurs!
‘Helmo’ wins German Business Student of the Year competition 2014
The prestigious DWF Prize for Innovation was awarded to final year students of German: Euan Graham; Simon Falk; and Sara Richardson, for their Helmo idea - a high-tech cycling helmet locker rental service to be made available alongside the well-known Citybike initiatives throughout Europe.
The perfect combination? Graduates and small businesses …
With the job market for graduates being so competitive and students considering the value of doing a degree, what can we learn from talking to small businesses about their experiences of employing graduates?
If growth is so important …
If the reaction to the lasted GDP figure is anything to go by, the answer to all our economic woes is growth ...