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With a few key measures, the government could could demonstrate that it\u2019s behind entrepreneurs this Budget, writes John Cotterell <\/p>\n
This week it\u2019s Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW)<\/a>, and my company, Endava, is very pleased to be taking part as a lead partner. We\u2019re backing GEW because we\u2019re 100 per cent behind the cause of promoting entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n With a few key measures in this Budget<\/a>, the government could demonstrate that it is too.<\/p>\n Endava has been around for 25 years. We\u2019re a US-listed company operating in 26 countries and employing 12,000 people, but we were once a UK start-up too and I am still very much an entrepreneur.\u00a0<\/p>\n I grew up knowing I wanted to run a company. I trained as a civil engineer, but the only part of engineering that I found interesting was the client conversations and the shaping of things with architects. I realised I wanted to be in business, so I did an MBA and came out of that looking for exciting growing industries, one of which was IT services. After a few years in IT, I saw the opportunity to do big, fully integrated projects and I had a vision of how to tackle them, so I set up Endava in 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n We grew fast, especially after listing in the US in 2018. Believe me, there have been challenges all along the way \u2013 that\u2019s what it is to run a business, every day \u2013 but the entrepreneurial spirit remains. It\u2019s what allows us to embrace disruption as we now use agentic AI to transform our own and our clients\u2019 business systems.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve recently been making changes in our own business to embrace what AI can do for us, and all around us we see the incredible talent and innovation that exists in the field. AI-led start-ups are popping up with brilliant new applications. Like all start-ups, their challenge is to scale and become the companies that really make a difference, through the innovation and employment they provide.\u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019re helping the most promising in our market: our new Dava.Rise partnership programme is dedicated to finding the best new AI start-ups and helping them offer their applications to the leading enterprise clients that we serve. In effect, we\u2019re bridging the gap that might otherwise separate start-ups and enterprises around compliance and integration, while helping the best ideas find application at scale.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n