The opening plenary at the ISBE conference started with a welcome by the Aston University VC Aleks Subic and the West Midlands Mayor Andy Street. Mark Hart then chaired the opening plenary which started with a fireside chat with Richard Harpin (Founder & Chairman at HomeServe and Growth Partner) exploring his views on building a… Read more
Rising costs are causing serious and widespread problems for rural businesses in parts of England which is curtailing their ability to invest and grow, according to a major new survey from the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE). Two-thirds of rural firms in the North East, South West and West Midlands – increasing to… Read more
The Department for Business and Trade and the ERC co-hosted an event at The Shard on 16th November to showcase new findings and analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The event began with an overview of the key findings from the 2022 survey, followed by some headlines from the latest panel report which reports… Read more
A new charter aiming to support entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to start or grow their business is being launched by the University of Nottingham. The charter, aiming to minimise barriers to entrepreneurship for underserved and under-represented groups through creation of a more inclusive ecosystem, was launched nationally today, at the Shard in London, by the University… Read more
At the Social Enterprise World Forum 2023 in Amsterdam, Strathclyde Business School is hosting a workshop on “Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Rural Areas” on October 10, 2023. Social entrepreneurship (SE) plays an important role in tackling the grand challenges of our time, ranging from ecological issues like climate change to social ones such as inequality…. Read more
A new study on the state of net zero support for small businesses carried out by the Enterprise Research Centre for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has been published today (26th September). The study measured the breadth and depth of net zero support programmes for SMEs across England. It found that less than one… Read more
ERC and Aston Centre for Business Prosperity report – an evaluation commissioned by The Scottish Government of Scotland’s inward investment promotion support via its delivery partners has been published today. The research involved a business survey as well as beneficiary interviews, and identifies the impacts from the support (including to the wider economy), which types… Read more
The Department for Economy Northern Ireland have published three new reports on SMEs authored by the ERC and Queens University, Belfast. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK: NI Report 2022/23 The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is an international project which seeks to provide information on the entrepreneurial landscape of 49 countries in 2022. NI Local Growth Dashboard… Read more
Authored by Mark Hart and Sreevas Sahasranamam to coincide with the release of the GEM UK Report 2022 /23 a new Insight piece in the Conversation was published on June 29th 2023. The UK picked a bad year to have a political crisis in 2022. The markets were already jittery because the global economy was… Read more
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) UK report is being launched alongside the GEM Northern Ireland report at a special event hosted by Belfast City Council in conjunction with Aston University, Queen’s University and Ulster University at The Innovation Factory in Belfast today, June 29th 2023. GEM is the world’s largest survey of entrepreneurship… Read more
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ISBE 2023
The opening plenary at the ISBE conference started with a welcome by the Aston University VC Aleks Subic and the West Midlands Mayor Andy Street. Mark Hart then chaired the opening plenary which started with a fireside chat with Richard Harpin (Founder & Chairman at HomeServe and Growth Partner) exploring his views on building a… Read more
Rural businesses show resilience, but investment curtailed by rising costs
Rising costs are causing serious and widespread problems for rural businesses in parts of England which is curtailing their ability to invest and grow, according to a major new survey from the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE). Two-thirds of rural firms in the North East, South West and West Midlands – increasing to… Read more
ERC/Department for Business and Trade joint Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS) Dissemination Event
The Department for Business and Trade and the ERC co-hosted an event at The Shard on 16th November to showcase new findings and analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The event began with an overview of the key findings from the 2022 survey, followed by some headlines from the latest panel report which reports… Read more
National launch of Charter for inclusive entrepreneurship to help minimise barriers to business
A new charter aiming to support entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to start or grow their business is being launched by the University of Nottingham. The charter, aiming to minimise barriers to entrepreneurship for underserved and under-represented groups through creation of a more inclusive ecosystem, was launched nationally today, at the Shard in London, by the University… Read more
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Rural Areas
At the Social Enterprise World Forum 2023 in Amsterdam, Strathclyde Business School is hosting a workshop on “Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Rural Areas” on October 10, 2023. Social entrepreneurship (SE) plays an important role in tackling the grand challenges of our time, ranging from ecological issues like climate change to social ones such as inequality…. Read more
Net zero support unequal across England with less than 1% of small firms receiving help from key schemes, new research shows
A new study on the state of net zero support for small businesses carried out by the Enterprise Research Centre for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has been published today (26th September). The study measured the breadth and depth of net zero support programmes for SMEs across England. It found that less than one… Read more
Team Scotland’s inward investment support: evaluation
ERC and Aston Centre for Business Prosperity report – an evaluation commissioned by The Scottish Government of Scotland’s inward investment promotion support via its delivery partners has been published today. The research involved a business survey as well as beneficiary interviews, and identifies the impacts from the support (including to the wider economy), which types… Read more
Latest Northern Ireland reports published
The Department for Economy Northern Ireland have published three new reports on SMEs authored by the ERC and Queens University, Belfast. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK: NI Report 2022/23 The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) is an international project which seeks to provide information on the entrepreneurial landscape of 49 countries in 2022. NI Local Growth Dashboard… Read more
The Johnson/Truss debacle of 2022 made people more afraid of starting businesses – new findings
Authored by Mark Hart and Sreevas Sahasranamam to coincide with the release of the GEM UK Report 2022 /23 a new Insight piece in the Conversation was published on June 29th 2023. The UK picked a bad year to have a political crisis in 2022. The markets were already jittery because the global economy was… Read more
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) latest reports
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor ( GEM ) UK report is being launched alongside the GEM Northern Ireland report at a special event hosted by Belfast City Council in conjunction with Aston University, Queen’s University and Ulster University at The Innovation Factory in Belfast today, June 29th 2023. GEM is the world’s largest survey of entrepreneurship… Read more
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