Scotland Can Do, a Framework for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

As an amendment to motion S4M-13338 in the name of John Swinney (Scotland Can Do, a Framework for Entrepreneurship and Innovation), insert at end "; expresses concern that Scotland lags behind the rest of the UK in business start-ups, with only 49 new business registrations per 10,000 of the adult population in 2013, compared with a UK figure of 67, contributing to Scotland having a lower underlying number of business enterprises compared with the rest of the UK, where Scotland accounts for a 7% share of the UK total, lower than its population share should merit, and believes that Scotland's ambition should be to raise its level of entrepreneurship to at least the UK average”.