Students are the new entrepreneurs
Record numbers of students at Scotland's universities are setting up their own companies as a way of "creating their own futures", according to new research from a business support body. The Scottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE) – which is backed by the Scottish Funding Council and Scottish Enterprise – said it was currently working with 74 student firms with the potential for "high growth".
Over the past nine years, the SIE has normally only worked with about a dozen such firms each year. James Barlow, chief executive of the SIE, told The Scotsman that he thought a combination of factors had led to the increase, including better support for student entrepreneurs in universities, combined with a generation who had learned about enterprise at school. He also pointed to the influence of television programmes such as The Apprentice and Dragons' Den, which had brought business into the public eye.
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