THE BIG CITIES GROWTH DILEMMA

NEW DATA FROM ENTERPRISE RESEARCH CENTRE AND GROWTHACCELERATOR REVEALS START-UP SURVIVAL RATES ARE LOWEST IN BRITAIN’S BIG CITIES BUT CITY START-UPS THAT DO SURVIVE, GROW STRONGEST JUNE 10, 2014 – LONDON The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), Britain’s foremost SME growth and entrepreneurship research centre, in partnership with GrowthAccelerator, has undertaken unique analysis of all 39 Local… Read more

 Rebuilding SME’s confidence to borrow

March 2014 A new report from the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) sheds more light on ‘discouraged borrowers’ – a previously under-explored group of SMEs who choose not to seek bank finance because they believe they will be unsuccessful. The report, ‘Back to Borrowing? Perspectives on the ‘Arc of Discouragement’, identifies a group of around  173,000… Read more

Visit to India

Professor James Hayton has recently returned from a trip to Mumbai visiting the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedebad (IIM-A) and their Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

ERC Workshop for Business Structure Database (BSD) Users

This workshop, organised by Centre, took place at Aston University on 29 April 2014. A group of practitioners involved with the preparation, administration or use of the Business Structure Database (BSD) assembled to discuss problems encountered in their work and to deepen understanding of the process underlying the compilation of the BSD.