7Days UAE Features Prof’s Warning to Entrepreneurs

7Days UAE, the leading free English-language newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, has featured Professor William Scott-Jackson’s warning that nearly three quarters of all new business start-ups will fail, following Oxford Strategic Consulting’s latest research report into boosting Omani and Emirati Engineering talent, sponsored by energy company BP.

The page 14 article in the Business Section includes Professor Scott-Jackson stating “Only a minority of entrepreneurs will ever succeed” and “A propensity to take risks is a huge factor in those who triumph”. People with “a slightly inflated confidence in their own abilities also tend to do well.”

We’re pleased to see that BP’s specially-commissioned research report is continuing to make headlines in the Middle East include the article here for you to read at your leisure.