Overcoming Entrepreneurship Obstacles: Yes, but How?
14 November 2012
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Promoting entrepreneurship is among the solutions to consider to meet the employment challenge. Significant efforts have been made, certainly, fostering the entrepreneurial spirit and encouraging business creation, but important work is needed on the provisional government's agenda to address the shortcomings and constraints that still affect the field of entrepreneurship, whose culture is not widespread in Tunisia.
Several factors explain the limited development of this culture in a country like the new Tunisia, which has implemented a range of support and incentive measures. There is also a lack of coordination between the various structures in carrying out this work, as well as ambiguity in certain tasks, namely the mentor, considered an essential element that supports the promoter from the idea phase to the production phase.
Becoming an entrepreneur, launching one's own project, realizing an idea, many have dreamed of it, but alas few have taken the initiative to do so and cross the Rubicon. There are various obstacles that can prevent them, including a lack of funding or skills, the lack of encouragement around them.
The solution does exist, it is time to enact a law that identifies the role of a mentor. A decisive action given the growing number of young people wishing to launch their own projects.
We must also focus on a new generation of entrepreneurs capable of meeting the challenges of globalization and change; there is also a democratization of entrepreneurship and the development of the country's entrepreneurial resources capable of meeting the new challenges.
Action program to boost entrepreneurship and SMEs
In Tunisia, the field of entrepreneurship continues to experience unprecedented and rapid growth. This reflects the will of the Tunisian public authorities to absorb the unemployment problem, on the one hand, and to deploy an entrepreneurial culture embodied in the development of entrepreneurial action, on the other hand.
It is in this context that an action program, designed by the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation and the Directorate General of Enterprises, under the European Commission, is being developed to boost entrepreneurship and strengthen support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Among the other objectives of the program are the consolidation of innovative companies and the promotion of the 2012 Business and Technology Fair.
This involves exchanging best practices on entrepreneurship and innovation for the benefit of Tunisian officials, setting up an innovation support fund and conducting a study to diagnose the state of entrepreneurship mechanisms in Tunisia and ways to develop them.
It must be stated that there is a real need to boost entrepreneurship and strengthen support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. This requires, above all, the establishment of a legal framework organizing the sector.
Nadia Ben Tamansourt.
Africanmanager.com
Published October 31, 2012.
Posted online November 14, 2012.
Several factors explain the limited development of this culture in a country like the new Tunisia, which has implemented a range of support and incentive measures. There is also a lack of coordination between the various structures in carrying out this work, as well as ambiguity in certain tasks, namely the mentor, considered an essential element that supports the promoter from the idea phase to the production phase.
Becoming an entrepreneur, launching one's own project, realizing an idea, many have dreamed of it, but alas few have taken the initiative to do so and cross the Rubicon. There are various obstacles that can prevent them, including a lack of funding or skills, the lack of encouragement around them.
The solution does exist, it is time to enact a law that identifies the role of a mentor. A decisive action given the growing number of young people wishing to launch their own projects.
We must also focus on a new generation of entrepreneurs capable of meeting the challenges of globalization and change; there is also a democratization of entrepreneurship and the development of the country's entrepreneurial resources capable of meeting the new challenges.
Action program to boost entrepreneurship and SMEs
In Tunisia, the field of entrepreneurship continues to experience unprecedented and rapid growth. This reflects the will of the Tunisian public authorities to absorb the unemployment problem, on the one hand, and to deploy an entrepreneurial culture embodied in the development of entrepreneurial action, on the other hand.
It is in this context that an action program, designed by the Agency for the Promotion of Industry and Innovation and the Directorate General of Enterprises, under the European Commission, is being developed to boost entrepreneurship and strengthen support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Among the other objectives of the program are the consolidation of innovative companies and the promotion of the 2012 Business and Technology Fair.
This involves exchanging best practices on entrepreneurship and innovation for the benefit of Tunisian officials, setting up an innovation support fund and conducting a study to diagnose the state of entrepreneurship mechanisms in Tunisia and ways to develop them.
It must be stated that there is a real need to boost entrepreneurship and strengthen support for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. This requires, above all, the establishment of a legal framework organizing the sector.
Nadia Ben Tamansourt.
Africanmanager.com
Published October 31, 2012.
Posted online November 14, 2012.
