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Mark Hart, UK lead for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), provided oral evidence to the BIST Committee’s Inquiry into Entrepreneurship and Business. Drawing on insights from the latest GEM report, he contributed to an important discussion on the UK’s entrepreneurial environment, how it compares internationally, and what more can be done to help businesses start,… Read more
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK report 2025/2026
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) UK report “Beyond the Unicorns: Everyday Ambition, Uneven Support – The State of UK Entrepreneurship 2025/26″ has been published today. Authored by Mark Hart, Karen Bonner, Neha Prashar, Anastasia Ri, Samuel Mwaura, Ines Alvarez Boulton and Sreevas Sahasranamam this year’s bumper edition covers multiple relevant aspects of entrepreneurship in… Read more
UK Business Creation Process for Ethnic Minorities: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics 2023-25
“We must shift our focus from encouraging ambition to engineering survival” This was one of the key messages at the launch of the ERC’s latest study by Mark Hart and Anastasia Ri: ‘UK Business Creation Process for Ethnic Minorities: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics 2023-25’ held at WBS, the Shard on Thursday October 15th. Tracking… Read more
Productivity Heroes in Wales: who they are and why they matter
Economic Intelligence Wales commissioned the Enterprise Research Centre to analyse Productivity Heroes in Wales. The report, Productivity Heroes in Wales: who they are and why they matter authored by ERC Deputy Director Mark Hart , ERC Research Fellow George Paily and ERC associate Adam Hardy, finds that Wales has a smaller, but increasingly productive, cohort… Read more
Design Economy: Driving Good Growth across the UK
Senior ERC Research Associate Neha Prashar was part of the collaborative research team contributing to this latest Design Council report. Since the last edition of Design Economy in 2022, the UK has faced significant economic,technological and geopolitical change. From inflationary pessures and energy insecurity to rapid advances in artificial intelligence andshifting global markets, organisations have… Read more
Lessons on place-based development: A new agenda for Combined Authority Mayors
Place-based development has flown up the political agenda in recent weeks with the appointment of Andy Burnham as the UK Prime Minister. Local mayors are now being encouraged to lead their localities in redevelopment in the manner of Greater Manchester. But most British cities have been underperforming economically. According to the Centre for Cities, big… Read more
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