Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the ERC is the UK’s leading centre of excellence for research into the growth, innovation and productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Our research helps shape better policies and practices that enable SMEs to thrive.
GEM UK: Northern Ireland Report 2017
Authored by ERCs Mark Hart , Karen Bonner , Jonathan Levie and Laura Heery the Northern Ireland element of the annual report, is being launched today, Monday November 12th at the Entrepreneurship in Action event held at the Marketplace Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh. In 2017 the Department for the Economy and Invest NI sponsored the Northern Ireland component of the GEM… Read more
Northern Ireland’s enterprise progress threatened by Brexit uncertainty
Brexit’s risk to recent positive trends among Northern Ireland’s entrepreneurs and micro-firms has been spelt out in new research. The two studies by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) and Queen’s Management School show that the number of people in Northern Ireland becoming entrepreneurs has risen significantly in recent years, while its micro-firms (those employing 1-9 people) are the… Read more
Financial Times special report on the UK’s entrepreneurs
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… Read more
What is the State of The Art (SOTA)?
We are working in an increasingly fast-paced world in which more and more information is becoming available from multiple sources. For many of us, this situation makes it difficult to keep on top of complex issues and debates and identify trustworthy and reliable information. To help, the Enterprise Research Centre is today launching a new… Read more
Longitudinal Small Business Survey. Call for proposals 2018
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has made available £25,000 to fund five secondary analyses of the first three waves of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) is administering this call on behalf of BEIS. Note that applications will not be accepted from anyone who is being supported through… Read more
Spin-outs and the great university challenge
ERC research cited in article by James Hurley in the Times, 10/09/2018 A 2015 study into spin-outs by the Enterprise Research Centre found that for the “majority of academic founders” there were “significant tensions” between their commitments to university academic work and the demands of the embryonic company. Research paper No 35: Profiling UK university spin-outs… Read more
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