Mark Hart
Deputy Director - ERC
Mark is Deputy Director of the ERC and Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School. At the Centre Mark leads on business growth and productivity research to understand the dynamics of the private sector over time and the role of SMEs as well as contributing to the work on growth ambition and access to finance.
Contact Details
| Email: | mark.hart@aston.ac.uk |
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| Telephone: | 0121 204 3048 |
| vCard: | Click to download |
Research Themes
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Business Growth -
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Professor Mark Hart is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School, Associate Director of the Aston Centre for Growth, and is one of the Programme Directors and Academic Lead of the national Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme. A 2014 recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion, he has played a national role in promoting enterprise skills and supporting entrepreneurs as well as advising government on small business and entrepreneurship matters. He is Deputy Director of the national Enterprise Research Centre (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk) which is jointly hosted by Aston University and the University of Warwick and has as its mission to understand the drivers of small business growth. Mark leads on business growth and productivity research to understand the dynamics of the private sector over time and the role of SMEs as well as contributing to the work on growth ambition and access to finance. He also manages the GEM UK national team for GEM Global which is the only international source of annual evidence on entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspiration (www.gemconsortium.org).
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
Evaluation of the Scottish Government’s Inward Investment Support
Published: 13 July 2023
ERC Research report for the Scottish Government
The State of Small Business Britain 2022: From Crisis to Crisis
Published: 20 December 2022
ERC Research Report
COVID-19, business support and SME productivity in the UK
Published: 22 June 2021
ERC Research Paper No 94
COVID-19, business support and SME productivity in the UK
Published: 22 June 2021
ERC policy briefing
Understanding Disparities in Local Productivity in the UK: Are we using the right measure?
Published: 16 October 2020
ERC Insight Paper
Covid19: Critique and Proposals to Develop More Comprehensive and Inclusive Support for the SelfEmployed
Published: 2 April 2020
ERC Research Report.
Fecundity, fertility, survival and growth: high-growth firms in the UK and their contribution to job creation, a demographic perspective.
Published: 22 January 2019
ERC Policy Briefing
Fecundity, fertility, survival and growth: high-growth firms in the UK and their contribution to job creation, a demographic perspective.
Published: 22 January 2019
ERC Research Paper No 74
Understanding business resilience among under-represented groups in London
Published: 12 December 2018
ERC Research Report
The UK’s high growth firms and their resilience over the Great Recession
Published: 7 September 2017
ERC Research Paper No 62
The UK’s high growth firms and their resilience over the Great Recession
Published: 7 September 2017
ERC Policy Briefing
High performing firms and job creation: a longitudinal analysis (1998-2013) ERC Insight Paper
Published: 3 April 2017
ERC Insight Paper
Ambitious Entrepreneurship and Migration A Multi-Level Study across the Local Authorities in England and Wales.
Published: 6 July 2016
ERC Research Paper No 47
Feasibility Study – Exploring the Long-Term Impact of Business Support Services.
Published: 27 March 2015
ERC Research Paper No 29
A Nation of Angels. Assessing the impact of angel investment across the UK
Published: 28 January 2015
ERC Research Report
Localisation of Industrial Activity across England’s LEPs: 2008 & 2012 .
Published: 31 December 2013
ERC Research Paper No 15
Supporting Sustained Growth Among SMEs.
Published: 1 September 2013
Among SMEs high growth is often episodic and not sustained. This paper reviews a number of international support measures designed to give SMEs the capabilities and resources to sustain fast growth.
Burden or Benefit? Regulation as a dynamic influence on SME performance.
Published: 1 July 2013
This paper contributes to contemporary debates concerning the impact of regulation on small business performance in the UK.
