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The Entrepreneurs Manifesto: Empowering The New Wave
18/01/2010
By Lea Pachta
An Introduction
The Entrepreneurs Manifesto is a public declaration aimed at supporting the UK's 4.4 million small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Authored by Doug Richard, the high profile entrepreneur and former TV 'Dragon', the manifesto calls for a new deal for entrepreneurs as a "recession buster" solution for the UK.
The document consists of two sections:
The Entrepreneurs Manifesto - a statement of principles highlighting the challenges that the UK must overcome to truly harness the potential of its entrepreneurs
The Declaration of Rights - a series of practical recommendations for the current and incoming Government to clear the path for an explosion in entrepreneurial activity
Doug Richard will be speaking about the manifesto at the major social enterprise conference 'Growing a Successful Social Enterprise' at the Royal Institution, London on Tuesday 19th January 2010, hosted by the University of Essex and supported by the Transformation Fund of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
Part One
The Entrepreneurs Manifesto
"And what it held stood ready to be loosed with all the power that being changed can give." Philip Larkin
A spectre is haunting the United Kingdom - the spectre of Capitalism.
As a nation we fear that nothing has changed; that greedy bankers will continue to be rewarded for their failure, that amoral corporations will continue to put profits in front of people and the environment, and that the State, however bloated and costly, is not only unable to control the beast but must compete with other nations to be its servant at an unbearable cost to itself.
We have banks so large that they dwarf the very governments whose guarantees they rely upon for our trust. We have become hostage creditors to their uncoupled risk taking. And worse, as nations we are reduced to acting like market stall vendors shouting our best price louder than the... continued on page two >
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