I was recently told that 2010 was the first year in Finnish history that more than half of Finland's companies are single-owned - seeming to verify a feeling that many people have that growth businesses are on the decline in Finland. Of course numbers can be spun in many different ways, but there is a continued concern by many in Finland that "entrepreneurial spirit" is shifting towards a sense of doing business for oneself rather than creating business that has the potential to expand.
But is there really an entrepreneruial crisis? Might this be an indication of a shift of perspective towards different ways to create and sustain business? Is this only a Finnish phenomenon, or is this one level of a dynamic of how societies conceive of their business base?
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