Longitudinal Small Business Survey Research Showcase event

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 some headline insights from the 2023 LSBS panel report. We then heard from the researchers leading the five projects that were successful in our small grants competition held earlier this year which funds researchers to undertake secondary analysis of the survey. This year’s papers were:

Research Paper No 111
Investigating Disparities in SMEs Digitalisation, by Samia Mahmood, Nadia Asghar and Kayvan Kousha, University of Wolverhampton

Research Paper No 112
Advice and SMEs: Who Takes it and What Happens Thereafter? By Ross Brown, University of St Andrews, Marc Cowling, Oxford Brookes University, and Haoran Sun, University of St Andrews

Research Paper No 113
Understanding Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Use in Rural Small Medium Enterprises: An Opportunity to Level Up?  by Robert Bowen, Cardiff University, Wyn Morris, Aberystwyth University and David Dowell, University of St Andrews

Research Paper No 114
The relationships between business support, managerial practices and firm performance over time by Stephen Knox, University of Stirling, Samuel Mwaura, The University of Edinburgh, and Victoria Oziri, University of Dundee

Research Paper No 115
The impact of flexible work on SME Performance: An analysis of flexible working arrangements, innovation and productivity in Scotland, by Sara Maioli, Newcastle University, Pattanapong Tiwasing, University of Nottingham and Jane Atterton, Scotland’s Rural College

The presentations from the event can be viewed here