LSBS Small Grant Awards Announced
23 March 2026
The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), in collaboration with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), has announced the successful recipients of the LSBS Small Grant Funding call.
Funded by DBT (£25,000 in total), five projects have been selected following a competitive process to undertake secondary analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS). The successful projects are:
- Advanced technology adoption in UK SMEs: What is the effect of external knowledge sources and what are the productivity outcomes? – Dr Jill Juergensen (University of Surrey
- High Growth Firms and Demand for Business Support – Dr Juraj Briskar (SQW)
- SME Productivity in Transition: Finance, Innovation and Climate Action in an Integrated Framework of the LSBS and the BFS – Dr Mary Arrieta (University of Greenwich)
- A Study of Finance, Growth and Productivity in Family-Owned SMEs – Professor Ross Brown (University of St Andrews)
- Characteristics of SME service exporters: Business support and barriers – Dr Carolina Marín-Cadavid (University of Strathclyde)










