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To mark Global Entrepreneurship Week, Aberystwyth University will be running a series of events open to students, graduates and staff from the 14th – 18th November 2011. For individuals with an interest in starting their own business, the Graduate Start-up Support (GSS) Taster Session being held on Monday 14th November, will provide an overview of the issues and processes involved with setting up a new enterprise. On Tuesday 15th November a local Social Entrepreneur will discuss the setting up and running of a successful Community enterprise in rural Mid Wales. Students - why not start the day on Wednesday 16th with a FREE ‘bacon butty’ at the Crisalis Enterprise Club networking event? Join the Enterprise Manager and Student Interns, hone your networking skills and meet others with an interest in ‘Enterprise’ over a light breakfast. This event will also mark the launch of the 2011 Crisalis Enterprise Network ‘£100 for 100 words’ student ideas competition. Join the Enterprise team on T...

Leading West Wales chartered accountants and business consultants Clay Shaw Butler have welcomed the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week – a campaign which puts the focus on job creation. “The slogan, ‘It’s time to make a job, not take a job’ , should make us all sit up and think,” said Clay Shaw Butler director David Butler. “It is in hard economic times such as now that our fighting spirit and entrepreneurial flair needs to come to the fore. “It’s a time when we can all help each other – and one of the ways of doing that is by being innovative and helping to launch the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.” Mr Butler said he was hugely encouraged by the entrepreneurial spirit in West Wales and Wales as a whole. He said more needed to be done to get young people to focus on the reality – “If jobs are not readily available, then young people need to have the courage to take their ideas into the world of business and make them work,” he said. “For that to work, it is crucial for the Government t...