Ben's latest journey will take him from Tokyo to San Francisco, and is set to last for five months. That's 5,500 miles worth of swimming, the first-ever attempt by someone to cross the Pacific in this way. Ben will be swimming eight hours<span> a day at the average speed of two to two and a half knots per hour</span>
In the USA, it is in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
In other countries that keep a gold reserve, it is in a similar
guarded, high-security central facility.
A key finding from this work was that job creation in the United States was not coming from large companies, but small independently owned businesses. It recommended that government policy should target indirect rather than direct strategies with a greater focus on the role of small firms. Over the past 35 years the level of government interest in entrepreneurship and small business development as potential solutions to flagging economic growth and rising unemployment has increased. It helped to spawn a new field of academic study and research.
