Gordon Brown announced the founding of a new academy that will open its doors next year to British teenagers looking to develop their entrepreneurial skills.
Read the transcript for the film below:
Peter Jones:
To become a real entrepreneur, I believe very much that you have to have an “I can” attitude, rather than like a “Can I?”
Hello, I’m Peter Jones, and I’m at Swanlea Business School and I’m launching, with the prime minister today, the national enterprise academy, which is something that I’ve dreamt about for two years. It’s for 16 to 19-year-olds. It will open its doors in September 2009, and it’s going to be creating the new wave of entrepreneur in this country. It’s going to be based around a mind-set change that I believe needs to happen if we’re going to get many, many more entrepreneurs and many more successful people in this country. So it’s going to be based around the “I can” mind-set. It’s going to be very, very US based in its culture, but I think that that needs to happen in this country for all of us, and I think that hopefully, in years to come, the entrepreneurs that will come out of the national enterprise academy will create tens of thousands of jobs.
Gordon Brown:
And hundreds of students will be able to benefit from this new academy in the next few years. And John Hutton and Alistair Darling are here today because the government will back Peter’s project with finance, and we will have a national enterprise academy which will be a world leader in the field and it will make it possible for many of you to achieve your dreams by starting businesses, getting support for it and developing a new enterprise qualification for the future. Britain can be one of the great success stories of this new age because we’ve got the city here, we’ve got stability, we’ve got global reach, we’ve got the English language, we’ve got people with ideas and we’ve got a history of invention, and as we’re seeing with all the pupils here, we’ve got people with ideas and insights for the future. And with the national enterprise academy, we’re going to move that message one stage further, that everything is possible, not “Can I?” but “I can”, as Peter says. That’s the message for the future. Now let’s work at making Britain one of the great successes, and all of you can share in that success with the ideas and insights and proposals that you have.
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