ERC @ BIS Enterprise Research Conference 2015

ERC Researchers made a significant contribution to the BIS Enterprise Research Conference on 3rd March at the ERC’s London home in the Shard. Mark Hart launched the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report on entrepreneurship and Jonathan Levie and Ute Stephan presented two new pieces of ERC research for BIS looking at the relationship between ambition… Read more

GEM 2014 : New generation of entrepreneurs riding UK’s economic recovery

Written by a team of entrepreneurship researchers lead by Mark Hart, ERC , Aston Business school &  Jonathan Levie, ERC, Strathcylde Business School  ,the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2014 report released today, compares entrepreneurial activity, attitudes and aspirations in the UK, France, Germany and the US – and reveals that the UK has pulled ahead… Read more

Understanding Small Business Growth 2015

The ERCs Inaugural Academic research conference took place at Aston Business School on  – Wednesday February 11th 2015 giving attending delegates an opportunity to hear about the latest small business research from the Enterprise Research Centre alongside its international partners . Attended by  analysts working in small business policy and support organisations and academics with… Read more

FSB Local Business Support Report

FSB release new report  on Local Business Support . ERC has worked closely with the Federation of Small Businesses to provide the evidence underpinning a new report published today.  Aimed at the Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs),  ‘A new design: making local support work for business’ reveals that current support is often ineffective, holding back the… Read more

Special ERC Issue: International Small Business Journal

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@UKBAA Forum

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

Nation of Angels : Assessing the Impact of Angel investing across the UK

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

Developing Britain’s Mittelstand

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

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and the World Economic Forum collaborate on research report.

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

‘First International Comparative Study of its type’

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