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	<title>Professor Nigel Lockett</title>
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		<title>Is the emergence of the ‘Networked Entrepreneur’ anecdotal or really significant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I meet more and more successful entrepreneurs who seem to be able to create real entrepreneurial opportunities and exploit them by using their networks. Interestingly, they are so good at this they create new networks if their existing ones can’t deliver. Combine this with the intrinsic ‘network power’ of the Internet and things could get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=196</link>
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		<title>What would it take to make Santander a serious contender in the small business banking sector?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until their acquisition of Abbey National in 2004 Santander was practically unheard of on the British high street. This has all changed. Not least because of their purchase and rebranding of the Alliance &#38; Leicester and Bradford &#38; Bingley branches but perhaps mostly because of their Formula 1 sponsorship deal with Lewis Hamilton! We may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=178</link>
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		<title>Is the new coalition government going to be good for small business?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk of hung parliaments, national interest and stable government it is easy to forget that the ‘enterprise show’ must go on! Small businesses provide nearly 60% of private sector jobs and over 50% of UK turnover. Over half a million people start their own business each year. We are clearly an enterprising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=171</link>
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		<title>A long way from home – from sheep to shop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fashion industry is full of specialist retailers with each purporting to offer a unique range of clothes that will appeal to a unique group of customers. But how do such niches emerge in what seems like an already crowded market? Just like the mainstream fashion industry, the active outdoor and sports clothing industry is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>The big [investment] issue – investing for social returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly governments around the world are recognising the importance of enterprise for bringing about social change (the third sector). Venture capital funds are beginning to emerge to provide alternative methods for raising capital and securing investment.  One of the first of these was the Big Issue Invest, which is a specialised provider of finance to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=152</link>
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		<title>Keep taking the tablets &#8211; after decade a market begins to emerge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea of a Tablet PC emerged in 2001 when Microsoft used the term to describe a flat mobile computer, which the user interacted with through a touchscreen or stylus. Microsoft’s Window XP operating system was offered in a Tablet PC edition to support manufacturers in providing these new devices. They had the advantage of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=148</link>
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		<title>Keeping on track – but not a train in sight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vehicle-based satellite navigations systems (Sat Nav), which first started to emerge in the early 1980s, now represent a huge global market. In Europe alone sales in 2009 exceeded €1.5 billion. Many of the leading brands have become household names. For example, Garmin with global sales of $3.5 billion (www.garmin.com) and TomTom with global sales of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last 30 years sales of bottled water have grown to more than 1.3 billion litres in the UK and to over 9 billion litres in the US. This is of little comfort the estimated one billion people in the world who don’t have access to safe clean drinking water. Duncan Goose, founder of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=137</link>
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		<title>Electrifying ideas: Deregulation lights up new opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1989 the UK Government passed the Electricity Act that was, over the course of the next decade, to transform a monopoly into a dynamic market supplying electricity to commercial and domestic consumers. The intention was to allow customers to purchase their electricity from a range of competing providers, albeit still distributed over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=130</link>
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		<title>A gem of a report: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can sometimes be difficult to see impact from entrepreneurship research &#8211; not necessarily because of poor quality or lack of relevance but simply because it can take so long to disseminate findings. Publishing in peer-reviewed journals is notoriously difficult and slow &#8211; typically 18 to 24 months. So have can high quality evidence-based research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nigellockett.com/?p=124</link>
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