Chancellor Gordon Brown will today launch a search to find Britain's most enterprising young people.
Make Your Mark, a campaign led by the Enterprise Insight group, is designed to highlight Britain's young entrepreneurs and encourage others to join them.
The initiative is part of a drive to support young entrepreneurs culminating in the first national Enterprise Week in November and the new Queen's Awards for Entrepreneurs.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Brown said: "I want us to create a Britain of ambition where what matters is not where you come from but what you aspire to.
"So opportunities for enterprise must be available in the highest unemployment area as well as the most prosperous, to the redundant worker as well as the tycoon's son.
"We know how much stronger our economy and our society will be if we see released all the dynamism, creativity and potential of all our people."
According to the chancellor, last year saw the UK's fastest rate of increase in self-employment for two decades, with 3,000 new businesses starting up each week. |
