By Greg Cole Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Governments do not create wealth or employment. The best they can aspire to achieve is to provide an environment where wealth and employment can grow.
Governments can however determine who has wealth and employment and how much.
Enterprise is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end which is the creation of personal and national wealth. A government which wanted to promote an enterprise culture would ideally step back and let human nature take over. But not this government. There are literally dozens of projects on which the government is spending money - regional development, seed capital, research.