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Do a Google search on ‘entrepreneurship’ and you will get over 40 million results. Do one on ‘small firms’ and you will find over 57 million. Investigating so many sites is virtually impossible. This area of the website offers links to some of the more useful sites and gives you a brief indication of what you might find on each of them.
Do remember, however, that websites change rapidly, so always be willing to try a search for what you require.
Information downloaded from websites is easily detected by specialist plagiarism software used by most universities. If you use any information from websites for your coursework assignments ensure that all direct quotes – text copied from the site – are placed in inverted commas and full web attribution is given. You may need to seek advice from your tutor on how much material can be used in this way. Failure to follow this advice may lead to your coursework being given a ‘fail’ mark.
www.smallbusinessportal.co.uk – Probably the best place to find UK resources of any kind related to entrepreneurship or small business. Provides information on academics, books, centres, conferences, government agencies, mega-sites, publications, reviews and has a useful research tools section.
www.gemconsortium.org – The website of the consortium of universities that participate in the GEM ( Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) project. Links to local sites.
www3.babson.edu/eship/ – Babson College Centre for Entrepreneurship. This site provides papers and abstracts and details of various initiatives.
www.bibl.hj.se/ice/ – Information Centre for Entrepreneurship. This site provides a collection of printed material from periodicals to working papers and describes itself as providing ‘one of the world’s largest collections in the fields of entrepreneurship,
innovations and small and medium-sized enterprises’.
www.celcee.edu – Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Clearinghouse on Entrepreneurship Education. This US Department of Education site has been set up to disseminate information not normally distributed through the usual sources.
Practical information, advice and help on start-ups
www.bizhelp24.com – Business Help. This provides UK business and finance information, news, help and services for small firms.
www.bl.uk/bipc – The British Library Business & IP Centre. The website for the British Library – which provides the most comprehensive business information resource in the UK (see page 520). Most resources can only be accessed by personal visit.
www.british-franchise.org – British Franchise Organisation.
www.businesslink.gov.uk – UK Business Link. This is an excellent site full of practical information and advice about starting up, finance, international trade, growing the business and buying or selling a business in the UK. It contains hyperlinks to many other relevant sites.
www.companieshouse.gov.uk – Companies House. On this website you can register the name and office of your limited company.
www.co-opunion.co.uk – The Union of Co-operative Enterprises.
www.defra.gov.uk – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
www.dti.gov.uk – Department of Trade and Industry
www.enterweb.org – Enterweb. As well as offering information and advice, this site provides a wide range of links to other sites around the world.
www.environment-agency.gov.uk – Environment Agency.
www.fire.org.uk – FireNet International.
www.hse.gov.uk – Health & Safety Executive.
www.ico.gov.uk – Information Commissioner’s Office.
www.oft.gov.uk/Business/licence
www.princes-trust.org.uk – Prince’s Trust. The site offers practical help and support and low-interest loans to young entrepreneurs.
www.sba.gov – United States Small Business Administration. US Government site full of practical information and advice as well as specimen business plans.
www.sbs.gov.uk – UK Small Business Service. UK Small Business Service website.
www.shell-livewire.org – Livewire Young Entrepreneurs. This site provides practical help and support for young entrepreneurs wishing to start their own business. It offers a free start-a-business toolkit and hosts an annual, national competition.
www.startups.co.uk – Start-up Magazine. A UK web-based magazine for start-ups also offering information and advice.
startupjournal.com – Start-up Journal. A US web-based magazine from the Wall Street Journal.
www.vosa.gov.uk – Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.
The following sites provide free sample business plans, help and advice:
See also Benchmark performance – www.benchmarkindex.com.
www.money-off.co.uk – Finding finance. A search engine for different sources of finance.
www.fairinvestment.co.uk – Fairinvestment. Provides an independent comparison of business banking services.
www.bvca.co.uk – T he website of the British Venture Capital Association.
www.evca.com – The website of the European Venture Capital Association.
www.growthbusiness.co.uk – This site provides a guide to UK venture capital funds.
www.bbaa.org.uk – The website of the British Business Angels Association.
www.venturesite.co.uk – A virtual network of business angels on which investment opportunities can be posted.
www.firsttuesday.com – The website for First Tuesday business angels.
www.icof.co.uk – Co-operative & Community Finance.
www.hmrc.gov.uk – HM Revenue & Customs.
www.creax.com – Creax. The site with hyperlinks to other creativity websites – an enormous resource.
www.fbn-i.org – The Family Business Network
www.imf.org – The International Monetary Fund. The IMF has a range of briefs on its website.
www.wto.org – The World Trade Organization
www.worldbank.org – The World Bank
www.unctad.org – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. UNCTAD publishes a World Investment Report annually. Highlights can be found on its website.
www.iccwbo.org – The International Chamber of Commerce. T his is the ICC world business organisation website.
www.iie.com – The Institute for International Economics. This website contains numerous resources and links related to trade issues.
www.ifg.org – The International Forum on Globalization.
www.changemakers.net – Ashoka Changemakers. This is a website of resources for social entrepreneurship.
www.gsb.stanford.edu/csi/ – Center for Social Innovation. This is a Stanford Business School website.
www.demos.co.uk – Demos is a political ‘think-tank’.
www.joshuaventure.org/resources/soc-ent-resources.html – Joshua Venture. T his is a website of social entrepreneurship resources.
www.gemconsortium.org/default.asp, and select ‘Documents’ then ‘UK’ Social Entrepreneurship Monitor – This is the social entrepreneurship equivalent of the GEM website.
www.socialent.org – The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs. The National Center for Social Entrepreneurs ( USA) www.socialentrepreneurs.org/
www.sse.org.uk – The School for Social Entrepreneurs (UK).
www.sbs.gov.uk, and select ’Social Enterprise’ – The Small Business Service Social Enterprise Unit.
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