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Category Archives: North West Regional Development
Hair Shirts Or Handouts?- How About Good Capitalism Instead?
- Plan A v. Plan B? No, it’s time for Plan A+ performance We’re missing the point, I think. Plan A fetishises austerity. Plan B is a clamour for pump priming through fresh spending. The argument for the former contends … Continue reading
There’s A New Enterprise Spark In The North West
Yesterday was the second formal meeting of The Gathering, the self-organising group of entrepreneurs determined to establish a genuine enterprise culture and the appropriate supporting resources. The new members turned up one by one, confident in their own abilities. They … Continue reading
Hubs, Ecosystems and False Dawns – Is Graphene The New Industrial Revolution?
George Osborne announces a £50m “hub” for the development of graphene, the wonder material long on promise and desperately short on commercial reality to date. We don’t know what this “hub” is but, with Manchester graphene’s birthplace, one might hope … Continue reading
Lions & Gazelles – The Parable Of Velocity
by John Lewis & Malcolm Evans Two young gazelles had strayed away from the herd and, full of their new freedom and feeding on their mutual boldness, they didn’t even really notice until they moved to the very edge of … Continue reading
Do Digital Or Dr Dolittle?
Digital’s sort of doing my head and I wonder if you can help me. On the one hand there’s a sense that we are missing a trick and on the other a creeping realisation that we may be confusing chalk … Continue reading
Making Innovation New Again – By Design
Funding Enterprise has a broader mission beyond the radical reworking of SME business funding. We are determined to invigorate the North West economic development agenda. This week we are delighted to publish a guest piece by Jonathan Butters, one of … Continue reading
Access to Capital? Investment Readiness? – In Fact They’re Virtually The Same Thing
I had an interesting meeting yesterday with some senior economic development people and fellow investment activists. What really struck me was that there is generally a massive disconnect between the natural partners of business inception and the intelligent application of … Continue reading
A New Model Of Enterprise Support
Yesterday we had the first meeting of The Gathering – seven people meeting in, appropriately, an old cotton mill: we are seeking to seed new enterprise in the great NW industrial heartlands. We decided over a strictly observed single hour … Continue reading
The North West Bank Lending League Table
This information is the result of dozens of conversations across the region over the last few weeks with SME owners, bankers, other lenders and funders, and membership organisations. Individual banking relationship managers may (rightly) disagree and individual business owners may … Continue reading
New “Chocolate Fountain” For Young Tech Businesses
Our new initiative aims to help the region’s high tech and innovative start-ups secure vital funding and expertise. North West Super Angels is being launched by Funding Enterprise, economic development and corporate finance specialists. The move follows recent additional tax … Continue reading