Boosting the business birth rate in Scotland: evidence from the Lanarkshire development agency's entrepreneurship programme

Steve Talbot; Alan Reeves; Brian Ashcroft; Eleanor Malloy; Sarah Le Tissier

Boosting the business birth rate in Scotland: evidence from the Lanarkshire development agency's entrepreneurship programme

Steve Talbot, Alan Reeves, Brian Ashcroft (Editor), Eleanor Malloy (Editor), Sarah Le Tissier (Editor)

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Abstract

The main objective of Scottish Enterprise's Business Birth Rate Strategy is to increase the number and range of entrepreneurs in Scotland. The strategy was put in place after the publication of two reports: Scotland's Business Birth Rate (Scottish Enterprise and Scottish Business Insider 1993) and Improving the Business Birth Rate: A Strategy for Scotland (Scottish Enterprise 1993) which showed that Scotland lagged behind the rest of the UK, especially the south east of England, in both the number and quality of business start-ups. This paper is the first attempt to highlight some of the key features of the Programme and to assess the performance of the participating firms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	26-35
Number of pages	10
Journal	Quarterly Economic Commentary
Volume	22
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - Mar 1997

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business growth strategies
Scottish economy
Scotland
Scottish Enterprise
Lanarkshire Development Agency (LDA)

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