Getting in the zone to kick-start growth
13 September 2012
With the first four of the government’s Enterprise Zones announced, Colin Cottell canvasses opinion on their merits and whether they can indeed help job creation
Everyone is in favour of enterprise. It’s a ’no brainer’ that if the UK’s private sector-led recovery is to really take off then enterprise must be encouraged. As part of its efforts to boost the economy, in the Budget the government announced plans to create 21 Enterprise Zones in England. First developed in the 1980s as an attempt to mitigate the effects of large-scale...