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Portrait of the Entrepreneur as a Young Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Nicholas Stacey
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ONE OF THE EXPLANATIONS FOR THE MUTED UPSURGE OF business creativity in Britain is that the cultural milieu remains largely antipathetic to the entrepreneur and to a lesser degree to business. This anti-entrepreneurial heritage is over a century old and cannot be easily eradicated; it will take probably another decade or so of earnest reconsideration of the British industrial malaise and the application of appropriate remedies to bring about a discernible and measurable revival of the industrial spirit. As entrepreneurial activity can speed up the process of industrial revival, the more entrepreneurs surface to create new, viable businesses the better; thus the task of finding and encouraging the entrepreneur assumes new importance; I propose to illustrate ways of approaching this objective.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , 01 October 1982 , pp. 444 - 453
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1982

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