Entrepreneurship for growth and sustainability in STPs and AOIs.

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals published by UN in 2016, include the need to create sustainable employment opportunities but is not possible to ignore the fact that over 50% of people now live in cities.

The value the contribution of entrepreneurs to economic development is now increasingly recognised. The Science Park and Areas of Innovation movement has been successful in developing and implementing increasingly effective programmes to support the ambitions of opportunity led

entrepreneurs.However, only 6% of start-ups manage to scale into companies that deliver the high levels of employment.

There is now a need for parks to adjust the balance of what they do to help companies scale. The work behind these ideas has come from business schools and is being promoted by governments in more developed economies; however, the question that remains for discussion is, can these ideas work in cities in developing countries?