Karen Bonner
Senior Economist
Karen is a senior economist at Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre and also works with the ERC on projects relating to entrepreneurship, business demography and innovation. She is involved primarily in firm-level economic research utilising micro-data to examine aspects of firm performance in both Northern Ireland and the UK. Karen works with ERC members to produce the UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Other recent projects include those for BEIS, DfE, and Scottish Enterprise. Previously she worked as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Contact Details
| Email: | ka.bonner@ulster.ac.uk |
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Research Themes
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Business Growth
Biography
Karen is a senior economist at Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre and also works with the ERC on projects relating to entrepreneurship, business demography and innovation. She is involved primarily in firm-level economic research utilising micro-data to examine aspects of firm performance in both Northern Ireland and the UK. Karen works with ERC members to produce the UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. Other recent projects include those for BEIS, DfE, and Scottish Enterprise. Previously she worked as a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at Queen’s University, Belfast.
Productivity Puzzles, Long Tails and Productivity Heroes: developing a new focus for small business policy in the UK
Published: 21 February 2024
ERC Insight paper
Benchmarking Local Innovation: The Innovation Geography of England 2016 -18
Published: 26 July 2021
ERC Research Report
Productivity in the ICT sector in Northern Ireland: A Pilot Study
Published: 14 July 2020
ERC Research Report
Benchmarking local innovation – the innovation geography of England: 2019
Published: 11 June 2019
ERC Research Report
Fast-growth firms in the UK: definition and policy implications.
Published: 4 December 2017
ERC Research Paper No 63
Fast-growth firms in the UK: definition and policy implications.
Published: 4 December 2017
ERC Policy Briefing
Decomposing UK aggregate labour productivity and growth: 1998-2013 using the ONS business structure database data.
Published: 12 July 2016
ERC Research Paper No. 48
Local and firm-level influences on innovation performance: linkages, climate and externalities. Research Paper No. 40
Published: 10 May 2016
ERC Research Paper No 40
Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies: a comparative analysis.
Published: 25 February 2016
ERC Research paper No 38
Firms’ innovation objectives and knowledge acquisition strategies.
Published: 10 March 2015
ERC Research Paper No 27
Localisation of Industrial Activity across England’s LEPs: 2008 & 2012 .
Published: 31 December 2013
ERC Research Paper No 15
