A drive to turn the whole world into entrepreneurs

AN OPPOSITION is supposed to oppose, of course—but Britain’s Conservative Party, poised on the brink of power, is sending an odd message by pledging to scrap the country’s annual Enterprise Week, which began this year on November 16th. Apparently, this is because Gordon Brown, the prime minister, is a well-known supporter of the week, and the Conservatives believe that every week should be Enterprise Week. “We need a focus on enterprise and entrepreneurship 52 weeks of the year,” according to Mark Prisk, a party spokesman.

Well, certainly, you can have too many days, weeks or years dedicated to some cause or other. But Enterprise Week has proved such a success since its launch in 2004 that 86 other countries have adopted it, and it has been transformed into Global Entrepreneurship Week. It is prompting a global debate about how to increase the spread and impact of entrepreneurship that, given the lacklustre state of many economies—not least Britain’s—could scarcely be more timely.

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