The Regional Entrepreneurship Monitors

Regional policy, and a regional focus for small business and entrepreneurship support are increasingly important in the UK.  All English regions, the Welsh Development Agency, Scottish Enterprise and Invest Northern Ireland have a strong focus on building their regions through enterprise and innovation.  It appears that this is beginning to bear fruit in terms of increased levels of entrepreneurial activity at a regional level in the UK in 2003.

Entrepreneurship in the UK regions, 2002-3

GEM UK measures the regional differences in Total Entrepreneurial Activity and Social Entrepreneurial Activity.  It looks at differences between regions in the level of engagement of specific groups of the population, like those from ethnic minorities, women and low income groups.  It compares high tech and high growth entrepreneurship, innovation networks and access to finance across regions as well.

These differences are reported in the annual UK GEM report, but some regions have commissioned their own regional entrepreneurship monitors. 

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