Expansion not an objective: Stable ambition but contented

Today’s report on micro-businesses from UCC seems counterintuitive as it records ambitions that run counter to Government policy. Micro-Businesses in Ireland: from Ambition to Innovation found that the majority of small businesses do not wish to grow. Only one in four wants to expand to become either a national or international business.

This is hardly the kind of ambition that nurtured the Celtic Tiger — and that can hardly be a bad thing. Maybe it is a case of once bitten twice shy.