The ERC team hosted the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) 2025 ECR/ECA Winter Symposium on February 19th at Warwick Business School’s London offices at The Shard. The one-day symposium was designed to give early career researchers and doctoral students an opportunity to present research papers in development and gain feedback from both their… Read more
Around the world, the number of people deterred from starting a business because of fear it might fail is increasing, according to the GEM 2024/2025 Global Report titled Entrepreneurship Reality Check, released today at a special event to launch the report in Bilbao, Spain. Those who take the leap are uncertain about the expected role… Read more
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has made available £25,000 to fund five secondary analyses of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) is administering this call on behalf of DBT. Note that applications will not be accepted from anyone who is being supported through current ERC grant funding. Applications are… Read more
ERC Director Stephen Roper authored a guest column in Business News Wales in which he discusses a research project commissioned by Economic Intelligence Wales highlighting the pivotal role R&D-intensive firms can play in driving Wales towards a stronger economic future. Stephen says “As we aim for economic growth, it’s critical to keep our sights on… Read more
In some recent work on net zero support for SMEs carried out with the Federation of Small Businesses, we called for a new organisation to be set up called ‘Business England’. One key reason for this was to ensure that there would be a highly visible place for entrepreneurs in England to go to for… Read more
The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) and The Enterprise Research Centre at Warwick Business School are delighted to jointly invite you to the ISBE ECR/ECA symposium 2025. This one-day symposium on February 19th 2025 will be held at The Shard, London and is designed for ECR/A, and Doctoral Students, and affords them the… Read more
On the 20th November we held the annual Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS) research showcase event at The Shard in London, an event hosted jointly with the Department for Business and Trade. After an introduction to the LSBS survey from Jayshree Varsani of DBT and Emma Osborne of BMG Research, ERC Director Stephen Roper presented… Read more
This year’s State of Small Business Britain Conference took place on 3rd October at The Shard in London, facilitated by ERC Steering Group Chair Jane Galsworthy. This was the ninth ERC annual conference, an event which brings together a mixed, well-informed community of academics, policymakers, practitioners and business leaders interested in small business policy for… Read more
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has made available £35,000 to fund four research projects to improve our understanding of domestic business investment. DBT will also provide a new survey dataset acquired from the Bank of England on business finance and investment decision-making. Grants for four projects (up to £10.9k per project at 100%… Read more
The latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK report, in partnership with NatWest has been launched today an event at the Aston University Enterprise Hub. The report this year highlights significant progress and enduring challenges in the UK’s entrepreneurial landscape over the past 25 years. Reflecting on a quarter-century of entrepreneurial activity, the report contextualises the… Read more
