Globalisation facilitates technology entrepreneurship.
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Globalisation still has the potential to deliver good – via entrepreneurship.
Kenya’s existing school system isn’t producing the sorts of working people the country needs.
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Kenya has realised that its school-leavers aren’t ready for the world of work. An ambitious plan aims to change this.
Young Kenyan entrepreneurs hard at work. Such enterprise must be encouraged.
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African governments and businesses must do more to assist young people by creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support them. Without this support, all of their potential may stutter and die.
Taking the plunge. What can entrepreneurs teach you?
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How to embrace the characteristics that give start-up businesses their edge.
Scientists can find it tough to turn a great idea or innovation into a successful business.
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Science and business don’t often go together, but that’s changing as more scientists realise that their best ideas can be commercialised.
Pie in the sky?
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The race to bring the jetpack to market exemplifies some of the highs and lows of sci-fi inspired innovation.
Barack Obama has been noted to embody the approach of stoicism.
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The ancient philosophy of stoicism can build the qualities needed in our new world of innovation and entrepreneurship.
TAXI!
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How a cabinet-maker and temperance preacher managed what the ride-sharing company is struggling to pull off.
Working not begging?
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They are the army of ideas people and go-getters who will haul the economy back to its feet. Aren’t they? The reality is not quite as rosy.
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The strange history of how the Bank of England came into being.
It takes businesses of all size to drive research and development.
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Using tax incentives to motivate innovation is more nuanced than governments sometimes assume.
Growing micro and small enterprises is challenging, not only in Africa but everywhere.
Malawi shows how micro and small business, with a bit of help from volunteers, can grow and create jobs
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Accidents will happen – and as far as innovation is concerned, that’s a good thing.
The informal economy represents about 72% of total employment in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely marginalised despite its significant contribution to employment and GDP.
Window of opportunity? A boy watches a protest by India’s Dalits in Ahmedabad.
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India’s former ‘untouchables’ are struggling to make a mark in business – despite some high-profile successes.
CurveStar, a curveball pitched to investors at CES - but few UK firms have the opportunity.
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Where’s an angel investor when you need one? A British team at CES reflects on startup culture, US-style.
Do potential downsides get short shrift in the rush for innovation?
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Taking a page from the innovators’ handbook could provide a different and better way to think about the risks that come along with – and sometimes stem from – new technologies.
Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. The micro credit revolution he started has not been a panacea for poverty.
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Microcredit, which was viewed as a perfect market-affirming solution to poverty in developing countries, has collapsed. In 30 years it’s gone from Zorro to Zombie.
Good ideas from some of the best brains in the game for budding entrepreneurs ready to break the mould.
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This is a list of old and new books on entrepreneurship. The common thing about them is that they give entrepreneurs the tools they need to start their businesses.
Startups benefit from collaboration.
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The collaboration required to foster more startups would benefit from a national system of entrepreneurship.