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

ERC Insight Paper Released – LEP Innovation Benchmarks – 2002-2010

The UK Innovation Survey provides information on product/service and process innovation as well as the barriers to innovation activity for a relatively large number of UK firms. In this paper we present the first local economic area analysis of this data derived from four surveys covering the 2002-04, 2004-06, 2006-08 and 2008-10 periods. The analysis… Read more

Growth Dashboard Workshops.

The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)  in collaboration with GrowthAccelerator conducted a series of One day Workshops around the UK. LEP’s from all  Local Areas were invited  for discussion on the Growth Dashboard and its findings. The aim of the Workshops were to ensure that our  future work delivers some of what  LEP colleagues said they would find… Read more