Skills and labour shortages hinder rural business performance and growth NICRE’s latest State of Rural Enterprise Report Labour and skills availability: impacts on rural enterprise finds more than half of rural businesses in the North East, South West and West Midlands find it difficult to recruit or retain suitably-skilled staff, with a high proportion of… Read more
The Business Desk : Social Enterprises vital to post COVID-19 recovery Financial Times: Starting a business in the midst of a pandemic The Times: Number of new companies set up this year is likely to break record The Times: How small businesses can get one over the big boys in Zoom revolution IPSE: IPSE sets out… Read more
Mark Hart, UK lead for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), provided oral evidence to the BIST Committee’s Inquiry into Entrepreneurship and Business. Drawing on insights from the latest GEM report, he contributed to an important discussion on the UK’s entrepreneurial environment, how it compares internationally, and what more can be done to help businesses start,… Read more
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) UK report “Beyond the Unicorns: Everyday Ambition, Uneven Support – The State of UK Entrepreneurship 2025/26″ has been published today. Authored by Mark Hart, Karen Bonner, Neha Prashar, Anastasia Ri, Samuel Mwaura, Ines Alvarez Boulton and Sreevas Sahasranamam this year’s bumper edition covers multiple relevant aspects of entrepreneurship in… Read more
“We must shift our focus from encouraging ambition to engineering survival” This was one of the key messages at the launch of the ERC’s latest study by Mark Hart and Anastasia Ri: ‘UK Business Creation Process for Ethnic Minorities: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics 2023-25’ held at WBS, the Shard on Thursday October 15th. Tracking… Read more
Economic Intelligence Wales commissioned the Enterprise Research Centre to analyse Productivity Heroes in Wales. The report, Productivity Heroes in Wales: who they are and why they matter authored by ERC Deputy Director Mark Hart , ERC Research Fellow George Paily and ERC associate Adam Hardy, finds that Wales has a smaller, but increasingly productive, cohort… Read more
Senior ERC Research Associate Neha Prashar was part of the collaborative research team contributing to this latest Design Council report. Since the last edition of Design Economy in 2022, the UK has faced significant economic,technological and geopolitical change. From inflationary pessures and energy insecurity to rapid advances in artificial intelligence andshifting global markets, organisations have… Read more
Place-based development has flown up the political agenda in recent weeks with the appointment of Andy Burnham as the UK Prime Minister. Local mayors are now being encouraged to lead their localities in redevelopment in the manner of Greater Manchester. But most British cities have been underperforming economically. According to the Centre for Cities, big… Read more
The latest episode of our Exploring Enterprise podcast series in collaboration with Business111.com has been published. ERC Director, Stephen Roper talks to Liz Barclay covering key aspects affecting Innovation in small business today. Innovation isn’t just technology. The innovation myth: Why Britain is overlooking its most creative businesses. Most people think innovation means science, technology and… Read more
If the promise of “good growth in every postcode” is going to mean anything, it has to start with the small and micro businesses. On Monday, Andy Burnham walked through the door of Number 10 as Britain’s new Prime Minister, promising “good growth in every postcode.” It’s exactly the pledge that small and micro businesses… Read more
ERC research on Late Payment ( SOTA No 70) authored by Rita Nana- Cheraa and Mark Hart was cited in a Government report card released on 15th July: Backing your business: Small Business Plan one year on – GOV.UK. One year on, the Government sets out areas where they are delivering for SMEs across the country – helping businesses boost cashflow,… Read more
On Tuesday June 16th we were at University of Warwick – Warwick Business School campus at The Shard co-hosting a workshop with the Office of the Small Business Commissioner and Department for Business and Trade: Prompt Payment for Small Firms: A Global Partnership. The session brought together a great group of experts, researchers and policymakers… Read more
State of Rural Enterprise Report:
Skills and labour shortages hinder rural business performance and growth NICRE’s latest State of Rural Enterprise Report Labour and skills availability: impacts on rural enterprise finds more than half of rural businesses in the North East, South West and West Midlands find it difficult to recruit or retain suitably-skilled staff, with a high proportion of… Read more
COVID-19 Press coverage for the ERC
The Business Desk : Social Enterprises vital to post COVID-19 recovery Financial Times: Starting a business in the midst of a pandemic The Times: Number of new companies set up this year is likely to break record The Times: How small businesses can get one over the big boys in Zoom revolution IPSE: IPSE sets out… Read more
Entrepreneurship firmly on the policy agenda
Mark Hart, UK lead for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), provided oral evidence to the BIST Committee’s Inquiry into Entrepreneurship and Business. Drawing on insights from the latest GEM report, he contributed to an important discussion on the UK’s entrepreneurial environment, how it compares internationally, and what more can be done to help businesses start,… Read more
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor UK report 2025/2026
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) UK report “Beyond the Unicorns: Everyday Ambition, Uneven Support – The State of UK Entrepreneurship 2025/26″ has been published today. Authored by Mark Hart, Karen Bonner, Neha Prashar, Anastasia Ri, Samuel Mwaura, Ines Alvarez Boulton and Sreevas Sahasranamam this year’s bumper edition covers multiple relevant aspects of entrepreneurship in… Read more
UK Business Creation Process for Ethnic Minorities: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics 2023-25
“We must shift our focus from encouraging ambition to engineering survival” This was one of the key messages at the launch of the ERC’s latest study by Mark Hart and Anastasia Ri: ‘UK Business Creation Process for Ethnic Minorities: Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics 2023-25’ held at WBS, the Shard on Thursday October 15th. Tracking… Read more
Productivity Heroes in Wales: who they are and why they matter
Economic Intelligence Wales commissioned the Enterprise Research Centre to analyse Productivity Heroes in Wales. The report, Productivity Heroes in Wales: who they are and why they matter authored by ERC Deputy Director Mark Hart , ERC Research Fellow George Paily and ERC associate Adam Hardy, finds that Wales has a smaller, but increasingly productive, cohort… Read more
Design Economy: Driving Good Growth across the UK
Senior ERC Research Associate Neha Prashar was part of the collaborative research team contributing to this latest Design Council report. Since the last edition of Design Economy in 2022, the UK has faced significant economic,technological and geopolitical change. From inflationary pessures and energy insecurity to rapid advances in artificial intelligence andshifting global markets, organisations have… Read more
Lessons on place-based development: A new agenda for Combined Authority Mayors
Place-based development has flown up the political agenda in recent weeks with the appointment of Andy Burnham as the UK Prime Minister. Local mayors are now being encouraged to lead their localities in redevelopment in the manner of Greater Manchester. But most British cities have been underperforming economically. According to the Centre for Cities, big… Read more
Exploring Enterprise Episode 25: Innovation in Small Business
The latest episode of our Exploring Enterprise podcast series in collaboration with Business111.com has been published. ERC Director, Stephen Roper talks to Liz Barclay covering key aspects affecting Innovation in small business today. Innovation isn’t just technology. The innovation myth: Why Britain is overlooking its most creative businesses. Most people think innovation means science, technology and… Read more
“Growth in Every Postcode”: A Scale-Up Target Measures the Wrong Thing
If the promise of “good growth in every postcode” is going to mean anything, it has to start with the small and micro businesses. On Monday, Andy Burnham walked through the door of Number 10 as Britain’s new Prime Minister, promising “good growth in every postcode.” It’s exactly the pledge that small and micro businesses… Read more
Backing Your Business: Small Business Plan, One Year On
ERC research on Late Payment ( SOTA No 70) authored by Rita Nana- Cheraa and Mark Hart was cited in a Government report card released on 15th July: Backing your business: Small Business Plan one year on – GOV.UK. One year on, the Government sets out areas where they are delivering for SMEs across the country – helping businesses boost cashflow,… Read more
Prompt Payment for Small Firms: A Global Partnership.
On Tuesday June 16th we were at University of Warwick – Warwick Business School campus at The Shard co-hosting a workshop with the Office of the Small Business Commissioner and Department for Business and Trade: Prompt Payment for Small Firms: A Global Partnership. The session brought together a great group of experts, researchers and policymakers… Read more
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