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Enterprise

There is a need for coastal towns to foster greater levels of innovation in enterprise development.

There is also a need for more innovation in enterprise support in coastal towns.

As elsewhere, there is a limited evidence base around the specific nature of enterprise development in coastal towns

Without access to such evidence there is a danger that programmes are supply-led rather than demand led.

Traditional forms of business support have generally failed in such areas.

Location, lack of critical masses, skills, seasonality and recruitment present a set of distinctive coastal enterprise challenges.