A bunch of organisations have got together to celebrate an Entrepreneurship Week starting today. (Here’s the “E-Week” page on the National Entrepreneurship Network website.)
The post-independence decades saw business being subsumed by regulation and businesspeople being publicly treated as social outcasts (privately, behind closed doors it may have been another story). However, over the last 15 years business has been welcomed as a legitimate member of society.
But it’s only lately (the last few years) that there is a push towards creating many small and first-time entrepreneurs. You might even call it a democratisation of entrepreneurship. While the traditional media spotlights will continue to shine on big business (after all scale itself rates very high on the aspirational index), let’s not forget the fact that small businesses create and balance the ecosystem.
The fact is that Entrepreneurship creates independence (at the individual level). But the bigger and more diverse the base of entrepreneurship, the more independent a society and country can be as well.
Have just read the pledge that NEN is promoting, that is worded powerfully.
Here’s celebrating entrepreneurship!