Place Based Economic Development with Simon White

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Business Environment Reform

Simon White | Specialist in policies and programs for more enabling business environments.

Creating entrepreneurial business environments

A key ingredient of entrepreneurship is risk. Doing things differently, inventing and producing different things, and providing different services… all this entails risk. Entrepreneurs invest in doing things differently and the outcomes of this investment are unpredictable. In fact, these investments are more likely to fail than not. Governments stifle

The role of government

In efforts to promote entrepreneurship and innovation most attention is given how to development entrepreneurs. While it is generally recognised that there is no entrepreneurial gene that is passed on from one generation to the next and that entrepreneurs are made and not born entrepreneurial, a high degree of attention

Streamlining and Shortening Licensing Processes Through a One-Stop-Shop Facility (the One-stop Business Facilitation Centre)

As a small landlocked country surrounded by South Africa, one would think that making import and export easier for local businesses is a critical issue. How else can business obtain access to the markets they require to expand and employ people? However, Doing Business 2010 reports that it takes 44

Business Development in Renewable Industries – toward sustainable solutions that minimise carbon emissions and boost rural employment

As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (7-18 December 2009) begins this week, I am reminded of a business I came across the other day in the small town of Ladybrand in the Free State Province of South Africa. Willi’s Energy Savers began thirty years ago making solar