The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Britain’s universities, with almost a quarter of university students running their own business or planning to do so, according to new research. The study by research firm YouthSight of 2,000 full-time undergraduate students estimated the collective turnover of student businesses is more than £44million a year. Some 24 per cent of those surveyed were running their own business or planning to start one while studying. The most popular ventures were in technology-based
