P/B/184. Entrepreneurship and SME in UK

This report analyses problems and issues which start-up and newly established businesses face in the early stages of development; discusses UK government policies for SME's; agencies which exist to help SME's and analyses two support agencies: Small Business Service and Business Link in the form of strengths and weaknesses as well as performance improvement. After that report discusses the difference in the management of a small business organisation in the UK compared to the management large business organization as well as the skills that are needed to establish and operate a small business. Last section of the report is looking at how entrepreneurial attitudes and skills differ from conventional management skill and whether real entrepreneurs are born or made.