The Entrepreneurial Society (Gavron et al, 1998) set out an enterprise policy blueprint for the new Labour government in the UK, which led to significant policy initiatives in support for new and smalj business, enterprise education, business incubation, and tax incentives for enterprise. These aimed to replicate the economic model of the MIT-Boston nexus in the UK, and officials of the Department of Trade and Industry conceded that UK policy on enterprise was to follow the US model. Supranational organisations such as the European Union (EU) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development have incorporated rhetoric and policies very similar to those of the UK government into their work. The EU through its 2000 Lisbon Agenda aimed to establish itself as a centre of knowledge-based innovation and enterprise, but to a great extent failed, partly because the 'base culture' of most of the large and long-standing EU states remained broadly unsupportive of this North American cultural model of entrepreneurship.