If you made it an individual account, then the initial amount of the money, or the seed money, wherever it came from, could be allocated individually.

If it's fairness and access to capital, so that individual candidates, from the governing Conservatives to the Green Party, are able to.

These may include technical assistance for financial intermediaries involved in assessing the eligibility of loan applications or the value of knowledge assets; investment-readiness schemes covering incubating, coaching and mentoring SMEs and fostering their interaction with potential investors; measures to raise the awareness of venture capital firms and business angels of the growth potential of innovative SMEs involved in Union funding programmes; schemes to attract private investors to support the growth of innovative SMEs and mid-caps; actions to improve cross-border and multi-country debt and equity financing; schemes for enco ...[+++]uraging philanthropic foundations and individuals to support R and schemes to foster corporate venturing and encourage the activities of family offices and business angels.

What we're looking for is a new framework for communities to work with the government, a framework that will allow a community to put together an overall plan—a plan that will include re-looking at skills development initiatives, that will re-look at market positioning initiatives, that will re-look at how we attract capital, how we attract people to the regions (1600) We're looking for a framework that will allow us to come to the government with a problem and a potential solution that will then break down those stovepipes of the individual programs that exist ...[+++] on a national basis.

There is no reason at all why these individual stations and newspapers should be facing the cutbacks they have, given their own individual bottom lines (0910) Today, of course, these companies are looking for bailout funding from U.S. capital.

Improving the enterprise environment The Commission will revise and strengthen its internal working procedures for assessing the effects and impact of its legislative proposals on enterprises, with particular reference to SMEs. 2. Improving the conditions for the transfer of enterprises The Commission is to launch a process of broad consultation dealing with various questions, with the aim of offering businesses a more favourable legal and fiscal environment for their transfer, particularly: - by facilitating the continuity of a sole proprietorship or partnership in the case of the death of the head of the enterprise or one of the partn ...[+++]ers; - by facilitating, in particular, the change in status from sole proprietorship or partnership to corporation with a view to the transfer of the business, on the basis of a joint examination of the most appropriate arrangements; - by facilitating the adoption by SMEs of the status of public limited company by reducing the administrative formalities and the cost of access to this status to an extent compatible with the protection of company members and third-party interests; - by reducing the fiscal burden on legatees who continue to operate the business.