More needs to be done to encourage small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) start-ups with advice and funding, according to one expert.
A spokesman for smallbusiness.co.uk, a website that advises and offers support to SMEs and new business start-ups, said today that often people found it difficult to find the right help and guidance and that businesses should be encouraged.
Adam Wayland, editor of smallbusiness.co.uk, said: "Entrepreneurship adds to the economy and there are a lot of people out there that want to start small businesses but feel that they don't have the resources available to them to do so."
He added that he would welcome any efforts that would encourage businesses and provide easy access to resources and information.
"At the minute it is very difficult for small business owners, or people that are thinking of starting a business, to access any of that information. People just don't know where to look," he concluded.
Earlier this month a survey conducted by Orange revealed that nearly half of all Britons had considered starting up a business but that around half of them had been put off the idea by fear of failure.
