Bigger, Better, Faster (Saturday, 9.10 a.m., RTE1), the final programme in this series, looks at how a traditional company in the craft sector introduced world class business techniques and how a wood processing company keeps pace with the technological revolution.
BBC economics editor Peter Jay looks for the roots of business from hunter-gatherers to modern day wealth-creators in The Road to Riches - Clever and Greedy (Sunday, 8.00 p.m., BBC2). Along the way he discovers how writing was invented for accounting purposes - thus civilisation and the art of shopping were born. [SBX]
Some 15 wannabe Internet entrepreneurs will battle it out for the chance to win £2 million sterling (€3.18 million) in venture capital on The E- Millionaire Show (Monday, 8.00 p.m., Channel 4). [SBX]
For years, Willie Maxwell, director of the Acumen programme, has been travelling the Border areas, North and South, trying to get small businesses to make a leap of faith and begin trading on the other side. The Man From Acumen (Tuesday, 11.05 p.m., RTE1) follows him on the trail and examines how successful he has been and why.
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