The work of the Enterprise Research Centre features in a Special Issue of the International Small Business Journal ‘Building the evidence base for SME growth policy’ In this special issue the ERC aim to identify those areas in which solid evidence does exist and highlight remaining gaps in the evidence base. Articles focus on five key… Read more
ERC Deputy Director Mark Hart & Mike Wright presented the ERC Nation of Angels Research Study Report to a full house at the UKBAA Winter Forum on January 28th 2015. This report presents the results of the largest study of the investment behaviour and impact of business angels in the UK to date. The study… Read more
ERC ANGELS RESEARCH STUDY REPORT RELEASED The Enterprise Research Centre were commisioned by the UKBAA in association with the Centre for Entrepreneurs (CfE) and with the support of the BVCA, Deloitte, Barclays and the ESRC, to produce a Research Study Report in order to better understand the impact of angel investing on the growth of… Read more
On the 28th of January Stephen Roper, ERC Director , Warwick Business School has been invited to talk to the German-British Forum Conference 2015. He will focus on ‘The British Way of Growth’ highlighting differences in growth strategies between UK and German mid-market companies. Key differences relate to managerial priorities, aspirations for organic growth, export… Read more
ERC’s Jonathan Levie, Strathclyde and Mark Hart, Aston co-author a report on entrepreneurship released by the World Economic Forum. The report, entitled “Leveraging Entrepreneurial Ambition and Innovation: A Global Perspective on Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Development” was produced jointly by a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor team of professors from, Strathclyde University, Aston Business School, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile… Read more
This is the ‘First International Comparative Study of its type’ using Harmonised data. Michael Anyadike Danes, ERC , Aston University led an International Team creating a new dataset that answers an important question, top on the research and policy agenda looking at the contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation. The resulting paper,” An international… Read more
The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) in collaboration with GrowthAccelerator conducted a series of One day Workshops around the UK. LEP’s from all Local Areas were invited for discussion on the Growth Dashboard and its findings. The aim of the Workshops were to ensure that our future work delivers some of what LEP colleagues said they would find… Read more
On 5th & 6th November, the ISBE 2014 conference ” The Future of Enterprise: The Innovation Revolution” took place in Manchester.
ERC contributed to the conference through the presentation of a number of research papers, contribution to the leadership of a conference track on ‘SME growth and performance’ and leading a Masterclass on ‘Impact by Design’.
“File on 4” BBC Radio 4 (4th November) -Private Equity: Winners and Losers . Features Professor Mike Wright , ERC , Imperial College Business School, London
The 18th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference, the UK’s benchmark event on diversity and entrepreneurship was held on October 28th in Birmingham, UK.
