Welcome to Enterprise Research Centre
The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) was established in February 2013 to answer one central question, ‘What drives SME Growth?’
Our mission is to become a focal point internationally for research, knowledge and expertise on SME growth and entrepreneurship. ERC brings the evidence base on SMEs and enterprise together, drives out new research insights and works to ensure research shapes better policies and practices to help SMEs to grow.
It’s time Britain’s Brexit negotiators ‘educated’ themselves on the needs of small business
The latest round of Brexit negotiations got off to a predictably bumpy start in the first few weeks after the summer break. Despite suggestions that Theresa May will use a speech in the Italian city of Florence this week to attempt to break the deadlock over the size of the so-called “divorce bill” of future… Read more
Identifying Social Enterprise
New Government report published today Social Enterprise : Market Trends 2017 co-authored by ERC colleagues Professor Ute Stephan , Professor Mark Hart with Dr Emma Folmer, Aston University and Paul Braidford , Steve Lomax, BMG Research Based on improved methodology and a dedicated survey of a representative sample of the UK small business population,… Read more
State of Small Business Britain 2017
On the 7th September the ERC welcomed over 100 delegates to The Shard for the fourth State of Small Business Britain Conference, with a focus on the theme ‘Driving Innovation and Growth’. This year’s theme was particularly timely, as innovation has been identified as one of the ten strategic pillars to drive growth and productivity… Read more