Economic Development
Learning from the story of Business Link
What went wrong with Business Link? Elliot Forte looks back on its rise and fall and examines whether latest attempts by government to support businesses are any more likely to succeed
Business minister Mark Prisk launches the StartUp 2012 Enterprise Calendar in January. The interactive online calendar of enterprise events is designed to be ‘a vital tool for entrepreneurs, signposting them to key events and growth opportunities’.On 25 November 2011, the coalition government closed the Business Link Advisory Service. This event hardly registered a blip on the radar of the national, or even local, press. The closure was not unexpected. After all, the service had been under fairly sustained public attack by politicians, press and partners since the publication of the Conservative sponsored Richard Report in 2008 (the blueprint for the current laissez-faire policy and the new business support landscape).
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