The Navigator Entrepreneurship Charter

We, the partners and staff of Navigator Consulting Group, recognise that:

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• Entrepreneurship is the foundation of business creativity and growth
   

• The history of the 20th century has been one of extraordinary business entrepreneurship and creativity, and that this trend is set to continue and accelerate in the present century
   

• Small businesses employ the large majority of employees and drive  employment, innovation and economic growth
   

• Micro-enterprises, start-ups and small businesses offer the greatest hope of long-term growth in the Western economies in the face of adverse demographic change, international competitiveness and an obsolescent political economy
   

• Entrepreneurs offer the best hope of renewing and regenerating rural and agricultural regions, less-advantaged urban areas and urban economies as a whole, and must be supported in the face of public sector incompetence and the often unfair competition of large commercial chains
   

• Social entrepreneurship offers the best hope of solving specific societal challenges with an acceptable cost-benefit ratio in the face of a general inability of public and private sector to address critical environmental and social problems.

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Given these factors, and mindful of our own unique competencies in business development and analysis, we have determined to:

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• Start or support one new company each year in the 10 years between 2011 – 2020

• Provide consultancy support to business start-ups and entrepreneurs as a priority of our company
   

• Further develop at least two social entrepreneurship cases to 2020.

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If you are interested in gaining support for your start-up, please view our Investment Criteria and contact us for more information.