Author Archives: mikewpaice

About mikewpaice

Freelance writer and researcher.

GEW UK launch day

Posted on 15/11/2011

A great start to GEW UK 2011 and although I have been enjoying the National Health Service experience today by proxy, I did get a chance to have a limited browse at the Government’s contribution on launch day. At last … Continue reading →

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Global Entrepreneurship Week

Posted on 11/11/2011

Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) 2011 starts on Monday and despite the uncertainty earlier this year over who would organise the UK contribution, Youth Business International has done a superb job in a very short amount of time. More than 1,800 … Continue reading →

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CSR – where ‘C’ is for cynical

Posted on 04/11/2011

You would think that in the era of the internet, social networking and online reviews of just about everything, companies would be a little more serious about their corporate image. At best they just “don’t get it” at worst they … Continue reading →

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Hooray! Triple-A.

Posted on 04/10/2011

Standard & Poor’s continued rating of the British economy as AAA is quite possibly the last piece of economic good news we will receive this side of the new financial year. The importance of this assessment cannot be underestimated and … Continue reading →

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The IMF’s sixth-sense

Posted on 21/09/2011

Photo courtesy of http://www.imf.org The IMF is seeing things – dead economies. On the one hand I was reassured that it is joining me in raising concern that a double-dip recession is becoming more not less likely but on the … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Trends: Time to ask the big questions

Posted on 20/09/2011

Last year the government used Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) to launch its challenge of making this “the most entrepreneurial decade ever” and acknowledged that the need to develop a strong enterprise culture has never been more important. Successive governments and … Continue reading →

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Looking forward from 9/11

Posted on 11/09/2011

The horror felt by us all, as the events in the US of ten years ago were beamed around the world on TV, will never leave us.  That day, evil triumphed and the terrorists had their moment. The following military … Continue reading →

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