ABSTRACT
The British economy has undergone quite dramatic restructuring in response to well known secular changes which have impacted on all advanced nations. This chapter discusses a case study on the possibilities for increasing entrepreneurial supply in a country: it is based on publicly available documentation produced by Scottish Enterprise, whose officials can be reached at the address given in the bibliography. Scotland has suffered particularly because its historic industrial structure had emphasised the 19th century extractive and heavy industries - coal mining, ship building, textiles, metal manufacture, mechanical and electrical engineering. The integration of research and policy and the attempts to gain wide public ‘ownership’ for action make this an invaluable exploration of the factors involved in the process of entrepreneurial supply, and of the impact of action on raising the business birth rate. The Business Birth Rate strategy has set both quantitative and qualitative targets for itself.
