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Posted August 5, 2008
Dragon's Den, the popular tv show in which entrepreneurs compete to win financial backing from self-made millionaires, has made starting a business one of the most popular aspirations among young people in Britain.This week it even branched out into pop music, as one of the Dragons gave a new band £75,000 in backing.
But the original Japanese format of the programme, which aired as Money no Tora (money tiger), was not a similar runaway success. Indeed, on a recent visit to Japan, many people I spoke to had never heard of it. In a way, this sums up the conundrum facing businesses and authorities in Japan. Find out how Japan will meet it's desire to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation to boost the manufacturing economy and keep ahead of other countries who can offer seemingly limitless cheap labour.
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