Episode 19: Understanding microbusinesses
Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC is joined by Emily Whitehead, business coach, consultant, and Founder of Simply Great Britain, and Professor Andrew Henley, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at Cardiff Business School reflecting on the world of microbusinesses or micro-enterprises, an under-researched and perhaps misunderstood part of the business population, in spite of their prevalence in the economy.
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Episode 21:Delivering effective business support
Published: 1 August 2024
Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director at the ERC is joined by David Taylor, Founder and Managing Director of the business DNAsix as well as being as a business adviser, coach and author, alongside Jodi Fair, who is Programme Manager at Solent Business and Skills Solutions, a free business support service. The discussion today is both… Read more
Episode 20 : Small businesses and exporting
Published: 12 June 2024
Professor Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC is joined by William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce; Jun Du , Director of Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) and Professor of Economics at Aston Business School; and Eugenie Golubova, Research Fellow and my colleague at the ERC reflecting on the range… Read more
Episode 18: Supporting better management in small businesses
Published: 23 January 2024
For the 18th episode of Exploring Enterprise, the podcast series from the Enterprise Research Centre, Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC is joined by Manny Athwal who is an entrepreneur and the founder and current CEO of the School of Coding, and Ian McLaughlan, who is Director of Business Growth West Midlands, a… Read more
Episode 17: What is the future of business support?
Published: 25 October 2023
In this episode, Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC, is joined by Richard Jeffery, National Director of GC Business, based in Manchester, and Jane Galsworthy, Managing Director of Oxford Innovation Advice and Chair of the ERC’s Steering Group. They discuss a big question for all those running or providing support to small businesses… Read more
Episode 16: Inclusive entrepreneurship
Published: 11 September 2023
Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC, is joined by Dr Lorna Treanor, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Nottingham, and Fiona Morrill, Senior Manager at the British Business Bank to discuss and reflect on the theme of ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’. What is meant by Inclusive Entrepreneurship and why is it… Read more
Episode 15: SMEs and Fraud
Published: 22 March 2023
Professor Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC is joined by Amber Burridge, Head of Fraud Intelligence at Cifas, Alan Bryce, Acting Head of the Fraud Advisory Panel, and Kristina Grinkina who is a Policy Adviser with responsibility for business crime at the Federation of Small Businesses reflecting on an important theme which has become a… Read more
Episode 14 – SMEs, the Autumn Statement and looking ahead to 2023
Published: 15 December 2022
For the final 2022 episode of the ERC podcast ,Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director at the ERC was joined by Fiona Graham, Director of External Affairs and Policy at the Institute for Family Business, Craig Beaumont, Chief of External Affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses, and Alex Veitch Director of Policy and Public Affairs… Read more
Episode 13: The mental health and wellbeing of entrepreneurs
Published: 17 November 2022
In this episode, Stephen Roper is joined by Professor Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King’s College London, Arosha Brouwer Co-Founder and CEO at Quan, a digital well-being and team performance platform, and Jason Jaspal, Assistant Director of Business Development at the UK mental health charity Samaritans, for a discussion on the mental wellbeing of… Read more
Episode 12: Small businesses in financial crisis
Published: 4 October 2022
In this episode, Professor Mark Hart is joined by Liz Barclay, the UK’s Small Business Commissioner, James Blackman, Managing Partner at Cocoonfxmedia, and Nicholas Hardman Team Manager at Business Debtline, to reflect on the financial challenges facing small businesses. If you are affected by the issues discussed in this podcast, Business Debtline provides free debt… Read more
Episode 11: Women and enterprise
Published: 30 May 2022
In the final episode of this series ERC Director Stephen Roper is joined by by Jill Pay, Chair of The Gender Index; Yvonne Greeves, Director of Women in Business at the NatWest Group; and Julie Kapsalis, Chair of Coast to Capital LEP reflecting on the important theme of ‘women and enterprise’.
Episode 10: Changing the late payment culture
Published: 5 May 2022
In the 10th edition of the Exploring Enterprise podcast series from the Enterprise Research Centre, Mark Hart is joined by Philip King, previously the Small Business Commissioner and responsible for advising small businesses on their trading relationships and Ant Persse, Chief Executive of Optimum Finance, a specialist invoice finance company and newly established Saltare Technologies Limited,… Read more
Episode 9: SMEs and the ‘Triple Transition’
Published: 5 April 2022
For the ninth edition of ‘Exploring Enterprise’, the podcast series from the Enterprise Research Centre Professor Stephen Roper, Director at the ERC was joined by Dr Anastasia Ri, Research Fellow at the ERC; Mark Swift, Head of the SME Group at the Warwick Manufacturing Group, based at Warwick University; and Darren Joint, Managing Director of Viking… Read more
Episode 8: Reflecting on UK enterprise policy – past and future
Published: 1 March 2022
In this episode Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC is joined by Lucy Armstrong, CEO of The Alchemists – an organisation which works with high growth businesses to accelerate their development; Robert Wapshott, Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Nottingham University Business School and Oliver Mallett, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Stirling University reflecting on some… Read more
Episode 7: SMEs and the changing food economy
Published: 10 January 2022
In the 7th edition of Exploring Enterprise, the podcast series from the Enterprise Research Centre Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC, is joined by Dr Barbara Tocco, Centre Manager and Senior Research Associate based at Newcastle University, and Professor Tom MacMillan Deputy Director at NICRE based at the Royal Agricultural University in Gloucestershire and Chris… Read more
Episode 6: Rural enterprise and COVID-19
Published: 11 December 2021
In Episode 6, Stephen Roper is joined by the team from the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (or NICRE), to discuss how rural businesses have fared during the COVID-19 pandemic and what the future might hold for them. The participants are Professor Jeremy Phillipson, Director of NICRE based at Newcastle University, Professor Janet Dwyer, NICRE… Read more
Episode 5: SMEs and Net Zero
Published: 12 November 2021
In episode 5, ERC Director Professor Stephen Roper is joined by Dr Anastasia Ri, Research Fellow at the ERC; Jonathan Withey, Head of Business Development and Planet Mark; and Catherine Westoby, Senior Policy Adviser, Public Behaviour Change on Net Zero at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to discuss SMEs and the Net… Read more
Episode 4: SMEs, COVID-19 and mental health
Published: 18 September 2021
In the latest episode of the Exploring Enterprise podcast series Vicki Belt is joined by Dr Maria Wishart, Research Fellow at the ERC; Dr Carla Toro, Associate Professor Behavioural and Wellbeing Sciences at the University of Warwick; Sean Russell, Co-Investigator of the Mental Health and Productivity Pilot, Coventry University; and Tara Sankar, HR and mental health lead at Tamworth-based… Read more
Episode 3: Supporting innovative start-ups
Published: 21 July 2021
In this episode ERC’s Vicki Belt is joined by Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC, Jane Galsworthy, Managing Director of Oxford Innovation Services and Alex Toft, Head of Minerva Business Angels to discuss how to support innovative start-up businesses.
Episode 2: Local Growth and Levelling Up
Published: 25 June 2021
Joining us for the second episode of Exploring Enterprise are Colin Bell, Business and Sector Growth Director, North East LEP, and Richard Jeffery, National Director of Growth Company Business to discuss local growth and ‘levelling up’ , sharing their perspectives on what it means and the main challenges in achieving it in North East England and Manchester.
Episode 1: How have SMEs fared during the pandemic?
Published: 15 June 2021
In the first episode Lee Hopley is joined by Professor Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC, and Professor Mark Hart and Dr Vicki Belt, Deputy Directors at the ERC discussing the ERC’s research into small and medium-sized enterprises, and particularly about what they have found out about how businesses have fared over the past year… Read more
