On Tuesday 13th October Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the UK’s national Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) chaired a session with the OECD focussing on the role of micro-enterprise in stimulating job creation and innovation at local, regional and national levels at the DG Regio Open Days, Brussels. Professor Stephen Roper, director , ERC, Warwick Business School talked about innovation in micro-businesses and stressed the lack of statistical analyses.

Company speakers were from CBIT a Danish IT business and the UK’s Little Soap Company

View presentations:

Stephen Roper : What drives new to the market innovation in micro-enterprises.

Anita Richter: Government policies supporting micro firms development.

Chiara Criscuolo: New tools and new evidence on business dynamics.

Emma Heathcote James: Making Little Large. 

Presentations from other workshops at the event can be viewed here