{"id":1347,"date":"2010-01-19T20:25:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localenterprise.wordpress.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-01-19T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T20:25:48","slug":"my-notes-on-doug-richards-entrepreneurship-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2010\/01\/19\/my-notes-on-doug-richards-entrepreneurship-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"My notes on Doug Richard&#8217;s Entrepreneurship Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolforstartups.co.uk\/2010\/01\/18\/the-entrepreneurs-manifesto-declaration-of-rights-empowering-the-new-wave\/\">manifesto <\/a>I made some pretty comprehensive notes and numbered them for ease of reference. \u00a0No analysis yet &#8211; just my notes&#8230;pieces that especially provoke or intrigue me I have highlighted in blue&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Doug Richards Entrepreneurs Manifesto<\/h1>\n<p>1 Public declarations aimed at supporting UKs 4.4m entrepreneurs<\/p>\n<p>2 Manifesto<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.1 A statement of principles highlighting challenges to overcome to release entrepreneurship<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">2.2 Spectre of capitalism<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2.2.1 Greedy bankers<\/p>\n<p>2.2.2 Amoral corporations<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pitting tax regimes against each other<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">Failure of a global commons means they can escape costs of infrastructure and society that supports them<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">2.2.3 Bloated State incapable of controlling capitalism<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">failing to deal with poverty, worklessness etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">Outgrowing the economy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">We are demonstrably poorer &#8211; the system does not work<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2.2.4 States competing to be servants of capitalism<\/p>\n<p>2.2.5 The environment has no voice\/the consumer no collective<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">2.3 Unleashing the Wealth Creators<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2.3.1 Wealth of the nation rests on entrepreneurial activity<\/p>\n<p>2.3.2 The state as a servant of society<\/p>\n<p>2.3.3 Must harness the power of the entrepreneur to improve services<\/p>\n<p>2.3.4 Size of the state is not the enemy<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">2.3.5 State run services immune from creative destruction<\/span><\/p>\n<p>2.3.6 Fairness of the least&#8230;only the State can ensure fairness in health, education etc &#8211; no-one can have more than the least.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot improve until we can improve everyone &#8211; and therefore we improve no-one<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">2.3.7 State&#8217;s role is to create playing fields on which entrepreneurs can be released to deliver service<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">2.3.8 Harness collective creative self interest of our entrepreneurial output for the benefit of meeting our social objectives<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We will see a flowering of ideas, a manifold unfolding of new approaches and a gale of creative destruction<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Declaration of Rights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">3.1 Practical recommendations to clear the path for an explosion in entrepreneurship<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.1.1 Entrepreneurial culture as the only force that exists for growth, prosperity, fairness and social justice<\/p>\n<p>3.1.2 Not about privilege; few getting rich at expense of poor;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.3 About creating ladders of social mobility<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.1.4 Increasing wealth so we can afford services, health education etc<\/p>\n<p>3.1.5 To harness entrepreneurship first we must understand it<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Risk and reward<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.1.6 Must increase economic freedoms for all businesses taking business risks<\/p>\n<p>3.1.7 Cut the time it takes to start a new business<\/p>\n<p>3.1.8 Streamline regulations, exempt small business where possible<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.9 Get government out of Business Support &#8211; just focus on regulation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.10 Free up family savings for investment in nascent business with credits and exemptions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.11 Stop paying people to be unemployed &#8211; share costs of &#8216;teaching them to be employed&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.1.12 Employers have no means to underwrite the costs of turning students into productive employees<\/p>\n<p>3.1.13 Govt is largest consumer &#8211; must change procurement patterns<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must drive revenue to entrepreneurs<\/li>\n<li>Open doors to innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3.1.14 Use new legal frameworks to broaden scope for social entrepreneurs &#8211; encouraging for profit co-owned businesses and for profits that deliver social benefits<\/p>\n<p>3.1.15 Understand that we do not understand<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.16 Must empower people to step out on their own, take risk, hope for reward and move on from failure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\">3.1.17 The corrosive impact of an over protective state is not merely the loss of our sense of responsibility to a civil society; it is the even more profound loss of our sense of capacity to change society, to have an impact, to be an entrepreneur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3.1.18 Entrepreneurship can be taught and must be learned<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Olympic Gold &#8211; 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