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The Centre for Entrepreneurs has today launched a report calling on the Armed Forces to unleash the entrepreneurial potential of its service leavers.
‘The military entrepreneurship manifesto‘ makes five recommendations that would boost ex-forces entrepreneurship, creating a new generation of defence companies that could boost British exports and help revolutionise military innovation. The report has been endorsed by celebrated commando captain-turned-MP Johnny Mercer, who has provided a foreword.
Launch coverage:
News
- Minorities and immigrants ‘twice as entrepreneurial as white Britons’(Business Matters covers the latest UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report that reinforces CFE’s 2014 migrant entrepreneur research)
- High streets must stop relying on retail, says expert review (Guardian covers the Grimsey Review)
- Start Up Loans Company lent £62.8m in new business funding in 2017(Startups.co.uk)
- Goldman Sachs pledges $500m for female founders (Bloomberg)
- Government departments to examine ‘social value’ in procurement after Carillion scandal (CityAM)
Opinion
- Why the UK’s immigration rhetoric threatens entrepreneurialism (David Prosser, contributor, Forbes)
- Take Pride in building a rainbow company (Josh Graff, UK managing director, LinkedIn)
- Britons still love shopping, they’re just sick of clones (Maggie Pagano, contributor, Evening Standard)
- Related: Department stores are not doomed – take a look at who’s doing it right (Ruth Marciniak, senior lecture, fashion marketing, Glasgow Caledonian University)
- The world could do with more visionaries like Elon Musk (Rachel Cunliffe, comment and features editor, CityAM)
- It’s human nature to look back – but China is showing us we can be part of an amazing future (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Entrepreneurs: keep your business close and your friends closer(Serenity Gibbons, contributor, Forbes)
Features