Entrepreneurship Action Planning –

An outline of rationale, activities and

impacts .

Iain Willox

KEY Elements of Presentation

•My Background

•Rationale for intervention

•Getting started

•COPIE Example

•Potential Impact

My background

• Responsible for Enterprise services in

Wales 1998-2007

• EU-Coordinator for Community of Practice

for inclusive Entrepreneurship and lead

expert on Action planning

Rational for Joint

Action Planning

• Lack of an integrated strategy

• Short term and fragmented business support

• Sharing of good practice is limited

• Lack of data or robust impact assessment

• Inconsistent public sector commitment to

entrepreneurship

Getting started

• Understanding the issues, creating a powerful inclusive

alliance. The Entrepreneurship Steering Group.

• Consulting widely and creating a vision “a bold and

confident nation where entrepreneurship is valued,

celebrated and exercised throughout society and in the

widest range of economic circumstances”

• Translating the vision into strategic aims

Getting started

• Building the implementation plan.

• Agreeing lead roles, targets ,costs, and impacts

• Confirming integration between activities.

• Carrying out baseline research

• Cementing links with structural funds and domestic

government funding.

Offering a helping hand to

future Welsh stars

KEY THEMES

• CHANGE ATTITUDES

• EMBED ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION

• WIDEN HORIZONS TO NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

• STIMULATE ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR WITHIN LOCAL COMMUNITIES

• A NATIONAL BUSINESS BIRTH RATE STRATEGY

• ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GROWTH BUSINESSES

THE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

ON INCLUSIVE

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

,

“A network of people actively involved in opening up

entrepreneurship to all parts of society”

KEY FACTS ABOUT COPIE –Key facts about COPIE

– ESF Learning Network; approved by DG Employment, Social

Affairs and Inclusion in April 2009

– Common goal: Transformation of the policy environment

so that entrepreneurship becomes a natural choice for

people from all walks of life

– Builds upon experience of the EU Community Initiative

EQUAL and the results of a COPIE pilot initiative from 2006 –

2008

– 10 national and regional partners across Europe

The COPIE Toolkit in Detail

DEVELOP AN INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

REGIONAL/NATIONAL POLICY FRAMEWORK • map strength/weaknesses

• develop concrete action plans

IMPROVE THE CURRENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT

INFRASTRUCTURE

COPIE Tool: COPIE Diagnosis

Tool

COPIE Tool:

Entrepreneurship

Education Diagnosis Tool

Priority Area:

Entrepreneurship

Education

COPIE Tool: Finland ESF

Entrepreneurship Case

Study

Priority Area: Quality Management /

Integrated Business Support

COPIE Tool:

COPIE

Resources map

COPIE Tool: COPIE

skills requirements

survey for business

advisor

COPIE Tool:

COPIE Business

Advisor Profiling

COPIE Tool: COPIE

Business Advisor

Self-help guide

COPIE Tool:

Business

Advisor Training

Modules Priority Area: Access to

Finance COPIE Tool: Manual on

Access to Finance for

ESF Managing Authorities

ENGAGE WITH

STAKEHOLDERS COPIE Tool: Action planning:

How to create a common vision

COPIE Tool: Action planning:

How to agree an evaluation

strategy

COPIE Tool: Action planning:

How to build an integrated

campaign

COPIE Tool: Action planning:

How to plan for a legacy

COPIE Tool: COPIE

Business Advisor

Passport

Action Planning

• Brings together key actors to develop

consensus about the way forward.

• Takes account of a variety of objectives

that may be met by inclusive

entrepreneurship

• Builds ownership, clarifies roles and drives

individual responsibility for action.

Who is involved?

• Typical actors would be ESF Managing

Authorities, Policy leads from member

states/regional governments, business

support organisations.

• Approach has been tested with

delegations from Asturias, Czech

Republic, Flanders, Germany and

Wallonia.

Baseline study

• Separate interviews with key Government

Departments, service providers and

business organisations.

• Analyse existing integrated enterprise

policies for region and good practice

elsewhere in EU.

• Highlight shared policy priorities and future

workplan within COPIE.

Approach Adopted

Critical areas for agreement between the

actors are identified;

• Creating a common vision,

• Agreeing evaluation measures,

• Sustaining cultural change,

• Planning for legacy

Approach Adopted

• For each agreed critical area International

workshops are convened with key actors

from every region to compare approaches,

confirm common ground and agree roles

for taking things forward.

Impact

Filip Kučera,

Ministry of Labour and

Social Affairs of the

Czech Republic

"COPIE provides a great opportunity to share knowledge and experience within the crucial area of inclusive entrepreneurship, thus facilitating efforts to ensure efficiency and a sustainable impact of the ESF."

Joeri Colson,

ESF Agency Flanders

"Being member of COPIE provides you extra knowhow on how to tackle social exclusion."

Noemi Iglesisas Rodriguez,

Business Innovation Centre

Galicia

"The exchange of best practices between European regions opens the opportunity of facing the socio-economic downturn in a new way, leading to innovative solutions, especially for those who are on the most vulnerable side of the crisis."

Impact-Cultural change

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50

63

24

43

47

60

36

33

33

57

Its harder to succeed in

Wales in running your own

business than rest of UK

Where I live best way to

get sort of job want is to

start business

Govt policies encourage

people to start new

business

Plenty of opportunities to

start a business if want to

2001 (February)

2005 (May)

Nov '05 & Mar '06

Impact-Education

Investing in education – Entrepreneurial core

competencies, now part of the National Curriculum.

Attitude – understanding yourself

and your motivation and setting

and achieving your goals

Relationships – expressing your

own views and ideas, appreciating

others’ viewpoints and working co-

operatively

Organisation – being able to make

decisions and fulfil your objectives

by planning and managing

decisions, opportunities and risk

Creativity – generating ideas,

solving problems and creating

opportunities

Impact –Increasing Diversity

• • Creating a more diverse new generation

• of entrepreneurs.

• • 13288 clients assisted through Potentia

• • 2562 new Business Starts after receiving

• Potentia support

• 3754 Jobs created from those starts

Impact -Starting Up

•VAT Registrations - Highest stock for 10

years

•2 highest registrations for 10 years in last

2 years

•Rise three times UK average in 2005

•Source;VAT data 2005

Impact –Open to advice

18

20

21

24

28

31

46

56

10

12

13

12

37

28

23

37

IT providers /

consultants

Local Authority

Training providers

WDA

Friends & family

Solicitors

High street banks

Accountants

2000

2005

Beaufort Baseline and Follow up surveys 2000/2005

Impact Performance

comparison with other

countries

•In 2000 the Welsh TEA was at 28 % of

the average for this GEM – 18 group

whilst in 2005 this had risen to 94%.

• Since 2000 only 3 other nations have

shown an overall increase none of these

as great as in Wales which saw a

doubling over the 5 year period.”

Source; Wales GEM report 2005

• Thank you for listening, Any questions ?

• Iainwillox1@btinternet.com