ERC data features in today’s Financial Times special report on the UK’s entrepreneurs: Belfast stands out for start-up productivity.  

While Belfast still struggles to foster companies that survive for at least three years, this year’s data from the Enterprise Research Centre show that Northern Ireland performs above the UK average in other key metrics of entrepreneurship activity.

Where are the entrepreneur hotspots in the UK

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High-growth firms – Start-ups that scale up

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Productive companies – Three-year survival rate

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