Leading West Wales chartered accountants and business consultants Clay Shaw Butler have welcomed the start of GlobalEntrepreneurship Week a campaign which puts the focus on job creation.

The slogan, Its time to make a job, not take a job, should make us all sit up and think, said Clay Shaw Butler directorDavid Butler.

It is in hard economic times such as now that our fighting spirit and entrepreneurial flair needs to come to the fore.

Its a time when we can all help each other and one of the ways of doing that is by being innovative and helping to launch theentrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Mr Butler said he was hugely encouraged by the entrepreneurial spirit in West Wales and Wales as a whole.

He said more needed to be done to get young people to focus on the reality If jobs are not readily available, then young peopleneed to have the courage to take their ideas into the world of business andmake them work, he said.

For that to work, it is crucial for the Government to give young businesspeople the fullest support. It is also crucial that theyget excellent support and much-needed advice from firms such as ourselves inthe private sector.

Global Entrepreneurship Week is being backed by Enterprise UK.

New research commissioned to mark the launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week finds that entrepreneurship in the UK suffersfrom:

AN AMBITION GAP - Over 50% of thepopulation want to start a business but only 5.8% are in the actual process ofstarting a business. To put this into global context, the rate of thosestarting a business in the US is 8 percent, Brazil 15 percent and in China 19percent.

A DEMOGRAPHIC GAP - An increase inself-employment rates of just 1% (fewer than 300,000 entrepreneurs), wouldboost the UKs GDP by around 1.5% and add approximately 22bn to the UKeconomy.

A SKILLS GAP - Enterprise educationdoubles your chances of business success but despite the fact four millionlearners are going through further education each year, and many more throughschools and colleges enterprise is still not a staple of the educationsystem.

Additional research commissioned found that entrepreneurs are ready to find solutions to these challenges. A YouGov poll of1,046 entrepreneurs across the UK shows that they believe that a new entrepreneurialculture will lead the nations economic recovery.

TV Dragon Peter Jones, Chairman of Enterprise UK said: It is no good encouraging people to start a business when they have noidea about how to go about it. To makethe UK the leading entrepreneurial nation we need to back our entrepreneurs byinvesting in enterprise education and by celebrating the role thatentrepreneurs play in creating a dynamic and growing economy.

The Prime Minister, David Cameron, said: Global Entrepreneurship Week is a fantastic opportunity for us to inspire theinnovators and entrepreneurs in our country.

The future of our economy depends on a new generation of entrepreneurs coming up with ideas, resolving to make them areality and having the vision to create wealth and jobs. But to make it happenwe need a culture change in Britain an injection of self-belief and dynamismto convince those who are dreaming about making it big to get out there and doit.

Thats why the government is doing everything possible to encourage entrepreneurs who are starting out from simplifyingtaxes to providing access to mentors and thats why I wish GlobalEntrepreneurship Week every success.

You can contact Clay Shaw Butler on 01267 228 500. Address 24 Lammas Street, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3AL

Email info@clayshawbutler.com

The Claw Shaw Butler website is at - http://www.clayshawbutler.com