Yesterday I attended another excellent event run by the SEEDA funded Higher Education Entrepreneurship Group. This particular event was at the University of Surrey in Guildford and was a conference entitled “Does It Really Make a Difference? Evaluating the Impact of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education”. Not the catchiest of titles, but I was really pleased to meet the brilliant Professor Mark Hart of Aston University. Mark presented his latest research for Enterprise UK, which clustered students into 6 groups, according to their enterprising beliefs and behaviours. The groups were: self starters, hesitant creatives, freedom seekers, inventors, determined novices and reluctant novices. Which type are you?

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index 2009

Despite working longer hours, American business owners are the most satisfied workers, according to the latest research from Gallup. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index shows that entrepreneurs are happier than managers and workers in any other sector or profession, although they are not always the highest paid.

The ability to control their work environment is a critical aspect of their satisfaction score, with entrepreneurs scoring a clear 16 percentage points higher on Work Environment.

Such freedom is often cited by entrepreneurs as a motivating factor, and this research suggests that long hours spent working on a project which the business owner is passionate about may be well rewarded.