Monday 22 November 2010 5:07:36 pm

Inafishbowl.com founder and entrepreneur Toby Reid recently posted on the business reality website an opinion piece entitled 'Should we be encouraging entrepreneurship?' (http://www.inafishbowl.com/index....ship&catid=1:news&Itemid=34).

The article brings up some interesting points and some perhaps controversial curve-balls in terms of what we, as a collective 'public', seem to think we should be doing and what would, in fact, be beneficial to the individuals who are expected, by some, to be the saviours of the British economy.

Should we, therefore, be encouraging entrepreneurship? Or is the encouragement we give turning potential entrepreneurs into 'lemmings' - each blindly stepping out into the unknown and finding nothing below their feet but a huge drop? Can we support entrepreneurs, and will LEPs help with this?

I'd be interested to hear your opinions.

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