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One third of Adie clients are foreign-born or children of immigrants and 36 per cent of clients are female (Adie, 2008a). 24 The association’s clients mainly start their business in the trade and service sectors. In contrast, France Initiative entrepreneurs bring in 25 per cent of the global start-up capital themselves. Projects have average start-up capital needs of 71 000 euros (that is seven times as high as Adie’s average startup capital) and create on average two or three jobs. Twenty-eight per cent of France Initiative’s support to enterprises concerns business take-overs.
Indeed, in 2007, 87 per cent of all new enterprises in France were started without employees, an increase of 57 per cent since 2002, and 64 per cent of new entrepreneurs started their business in order to assure their own job, which is 10 per cent more than in 2002 (Insee, 2008). Most microenterprises are established in Southern France and in the Ile-de-France region, while the Northern and Eastern regions are more intensively marked by agriculture and large industrial sites that absorb a large part of the labour force (DCASP, 2007).
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