Publication

The State of Small Business Britain Conference Report 2024

Published: 18 December 2024

ERC Insight paper

Associated Themes

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  Business Growth
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  COVID-19
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  Entrepreneurship
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  Innovation
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  Management and Leadership
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  Productivity and performance

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The 2024 annual Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) State of Small Business Britain Conference took place on 3rd October at The Shard in London. The event brings together a mixed community of academics, policymakers, practitioners and business leaders interested in small business policy for a day of evidence-informed discussion and debate. The focus of the 2024 conference was on how to best support for small firms in difficult economic times. This paper summarises the discussions during the day, highlighting several key themes that emerged, including: the need to tackle the fragmentation that exists in the business support landscape, to more effectively embed the needs of small businesses into programme design, and focus on raising the ambitions and capabilities of the country’s small business leaders.

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