'Who wants to go into business?' - 60% of pre-teens want to be entrepreneurs, says survey

A major survey showing the aspirations of pre-teen children reveals that most of them want to go into business when they become adults.

Across the 26 counties involved, 60% of 11 and 12 year-olds said that they would like to be an entrepreneur in the future, according to the survey of 8,000 children who spent 12-16 weeks creating classroom businesses on the Junior Entrepreneur Programme in 2019.