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.
New report on innovation support and business growth published today
Innovation plays an important role in business growth. Public support is available for UK firms as Research Councils and Innovate UK provide grants to support science and innovation. But do these grants actually work? Do they help businesses to innovate and grow? This new report compares the growth of over 10,000 UK firms which received… Read more
GEM UK 2016 monitoring Report
ERC researchers (Hart, Bonner and Levie) publish the latest GEM UK report_ Wednesday July 5th 2017. The report compiled by Professor Mark Hart, Professor Jonathan Levie and Dr Karen Bonner – compares Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) measures of entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspiration in the UK , France, Germany and the United States (US). It also… Read more
ERC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Vacancy.
We have an opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher to work in the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) on a 15 month Fixed Term Contract (FT) from 1st September 2017. The ERC is a collaborative research centre led by Aston and Warwick Business Schools with Imperial and Strathclyde Business Schools and Queen’s University School of Management as… Read more
Benchmarking Local Innovation
New Report published today. Firms’ ability to innovate successfully plays an important role in their ability to sustain growth and competitiveness. This report provides innovation benchmarks for local areas in England, updating our previous analysis published in 2015. The benchmarks are based on a new analysis of data from the 14,000 firms which responded to… Read more
ERC Research Showcase.
The ERC held a Research Showcase on June 20th 2017 at RSA House in London. The agenda of the day reflected the range of research we are currently undertaking at the Centre. The aim was to share our research insights and ideas with our key stakeholders, and to engage in dialogue with them about these…. Read more
LSBS Event
The ERC hosted an event on the 19th June at the Shard in London to share headline data and analysis from the Longitudinal Small Business Survey with a group of key stakeholders. Key findings published by BEIS in the Longitudinal Small Business Survey Year 2 ( 2016) Panel Report can be viewed here. Presentations from… Read more
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