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Newsroom: Global News Archive 2005
January
30 - February 5
Scotland
falls behind rest of UK in new businesses
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
...VAT registration, the best official measure of new business
formation, shows Scotland rated ninth out of 12 UK regions in 2002
and 26 per cent below the UK... <MORE>
SSI
Ministry's TREAD scheme for women's economic empowerment
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
The Ministry of Small Scale Industries has launched a scheme
"Trade Related Entrepreneurship Assistance and
Development" (TREAD) for economic empowerment... <MORE>
UK
workers dream of entrepreneurship
Freelance UK - London,UK
Almost a quarter of UK workers are contemplating ditching their jobs
and taking the plunge as an entrepreneur, according to the latest
research... <MORE>
First
Toa Payoh Primary School pupils learn about entrepreneurship
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... of Women's and Children's Healthcare Foundation, said: "We
came up with this idea that can help the children to grow,
especially in entrepreneurship, so it's... <MORE>
The
Downside Of Higher Productivity
BusinessWeek - USA
... says Horst Siebert, a professor of economics at the Bologna
campus of Johns Hopkins University and former member of Germany's
Council of Economic Advisors ... <MORE>
Indian
Bank launches scheme to help women in entrepreneurship
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
[India News]: Chennai: Public sector Indian Bank today launched a
scheme aimed at helping educated women to become entrepreneurs...
<MORE>
Bottlenecks
To Entrepreneurship. Some Concerns For The New Finance Minister
GhanaWeb - Accra,Ghana
...And this is the conundrum I want to show case. These taxes are a
mere recycling of regulations against entrepreneurship. In... <MORE>
Business
backers double new deals
ic NorthWales - North Wales,UK
...Finance Wales injected £10.5m into Welsh businesses, up 62% on
2003. North Wales accounted for almost a fifth of all... <MORE>
February
6 - 12
£135,000
funding package aims to encourage spirit of enterprise
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK
... "Here in Merseyside the focus is on entrepreneurship.
"We are working with entrepreneurial think tanks, the
Entrepreneurship Commission ... <MORE>
10
of the best-laid business plans
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... in the final stage," explained a spokesperson for the
students' body, which organises the event under the aegis of the
institute's entrepreneurship cell... <MORE>
European
Venture-Capital Investment Holds Steady in 2004...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA
...However, deal flow for the year decreased to 1,026 rounds--a 20%
drop in activity from 2003-- according to the European Venture
Capital Report released by... <MORE>
Business
incubators: What are they?
ITWeb - South Africa
...as more and more communities, countries and private investors
recognise the value of this effective tool for supporting new
business formation and growth... <MORE>
Venture
capital projects still tough to kick-start
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Venture capital funds and private equity investments clocked up
double-digit returns between 1987 and mid-2004, according to data
released yesterday, but... <MORE>
IDB
Fund to Support Project to Promote Entrepreneurship...
Harold Doan and Associates - Rocklin,CA
... Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) today
announced the approval of a $660,000 grant for a project to promote
entrepreneurship among young ... <MORE>
Venture
Capital: Where Muslims Fear To Tread
alt.muslim - USA
...American venture capital firms provide in excess of $25 billion
per year in equity financing to help finance the development and
growth of thousands of new startups... By contrast, Islamic banking
institutions invest less than $1 billion a year... <MORE>
Middle
East is a conducive environment for entrepreneurs...
Strategiy - United Arab Emirates
...The atmosphere is open to entrepreneurship and there is lots of
competition," said Wintzen, who is due in Dubai this May to
address 'Entrepreneurs In Dubai... <MORE>
Redefining
Omani entrepreneurship
Times of Oman - Oman
MUSCAT -- The first workshop on the profession of management,
conducted by Louis Allen International, concluded yesterday at the
Le Caprice Hall in... <MORE>
Duma
to hold hearings on legal framework for Russian economy
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
... development. The hearings were initiated by the lower house's
Committee for the economic policy, entrepreneurship and tourism... <MORE>
February
13 - 19
UK
turns US SBA for mentoring on entrepreneurship
Kansas City Business Journal - Kansas
City,MO,USA
The United Kingdom is promoting the value of entrepreneurship,
especially to its young people, and looking to the US Small Business
Administration for tips on ... <MORE>
US
alliance will boost R&D in Ireland
4ni.co.uk - UK
... "This strategic alliance will carry forward the
government's goal of transforming Northern Ireland into an
innovation economy, by enabling ... <MORE>
BBC
World partners for Entrepreneurs in Dubai event
Indiantelevision.com - Andheri,Mumbai,India
MUMBAI: The International Entrepreneurship Forum and Exhibition (IEFE)
has stated that news channel BBC World will be an official media
partner for its ... <MORE>
Centre
plans to increase incubators, entrepreneurship parks
Business Standard - India
The central government has decided to increase the number of
technology business incubators and entrepreneurship parks across the
country in a bid to promote... <MORE>
Workshops
teach SMEs how to win government business
Ottawa Business Journal -
Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
While the federal procurement process endures its share of debate
and criticism, OCRI's Entrepreneurship Centre is hosting a pair of
events meant to help small ... <MORE>
Palace
names adviser for entrepreneurship
INQ7 Interactive, Inc. - Philippines
... gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has appointed RFM and president and
chief executive officer Jose Maria Concepcion III as presidential
consultant on entrepreneurship... <MORE>
North West Rural Firms Boost Number Of Female Entrepreneurs
a2gay.org.uk - Manchester,UK
In the North West there are around 103,000 female entrepreneurs, and
recent research from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor shows that
there is higher ... <MORE>
Call
for entrepreneurship
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
... by Malta Enterprise in its call for the formation of the ...
there may exist for the development of new entrepreneurial attitudes
to business"... <MORE>
President Says Hurdles to Entrepreneurship Will Be Eliminated
Baku Today - Baku,Azerbaijan
President Ilham Aliyev has stated that all obstacles for
entrepreneurial development in Azerbaijan will be eliminated.
"The entrepreneurial...
<MORE>
Venture capital deals up last year
Ireland Online - Ireland
The results for the fourth quarter of the VentureOne/Ernst
& Young Quarterly European Venture Capital Report 2004 show the
number of early stage deals for... <MORE>
February
20 - 26
Bangalore
to have business school for women
New Kerala - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
... The Institue of Business and Entrepreneurial Studies - will
offer a one-year programme comprising a core curriculum of
entrepreneurship, finance, marketing... <MORE>
Council
endorses industrial policy and nanotechnology initiatives
Euractiv - Brussels,Belgium
... regulatory framework, a competitive internal market,
access to finance for companies as well as policies fostering
research, innovation and entrepreneurship...<MORE>
Entrepreneurship
Competition Concludes at IIM Calcutta
Cool Avenues - Delhi,India
The Entrepreneurship Cell of IIM Calcutta successfully conducted its
flagship event, i2I (ideas to Implementation) on Sunday, 13th
February... <MORE>
Entrepreneurship esteem is lacking
Today (Singapore) - Singapore
Despite the plethora of top-down help schemes for business
start-ups, ground-up esteem for entrepreneurship is still lacking in
Singapore... <MORE>
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