Research — The Entrepreneurs Network

Eamonn Ives and Derin Kocer

Job Creators 2024

In the third instalment of our Job Creators series, we reveal the proportion of founders behind Britain’s fastest-growing companies that were born overseas. This year, the rate has stayed constant – at 39%, but this is still down from the first year we researched it. Despite this decrease, the data clearly show the contribution immigrants make to Britain’s startup economy.

We conclude the report with a series of policy recommendations for the Government to adopt which would ensure Britain is attractive and open to the world’s brightest and best.

Entrepreneurs Unwrapped

Understanding how Britain thinks about entrepreneurship is vital if we are to build a society which enables and encourages more people to launch a business. In Entrepreneurs Unwrapped, kindly supported by American Express, we sought to do exactly that.

By surveying both those who have never started a business and current founders, we painted a picture of what Britain really thinks about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship, and revealed where similarities and contrasts can be drawn between the two groups.