New ERC Research reports on innovation and productivity in Northern Ireland
Three new ERC research reports focusing on innovation and productivity in the Northern Ireland economy have been published. The reports, authored by ERC research associates based at Queens University Belfast and Warwick Business School were funded by the Department for Economy Northern Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland. They focus on the interrelationship between R&D, innovation… Read more
Re-booting start-up policy in response to the COVID-19 crisis
On May 12th Mark Hart was an invited speaker on the Re-booting start-up policy in response to the COVID-19 crisis OECD webinar with participation of delegates from the Working Party for SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) and Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Committee.
Shake-up of geographic origin labels scheme “must educate consumers to support UK food heritage”
Education of consumers and minimising red tape is essential as the UK develops its own ‘geographical indication’ (GI) labelling system for traditional food products following Brexit, new research shows The introduction of a new system for protecting unique British food products such as Cornish pasties and Melton Mowbray pork pies will depend on better educating… Read more
What next for Women’s Enterprise Policy?
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Women are much less likely to found or grow a business than men. Given that girls are surpassing boys at school and women’s economic activity is nearly equal to men’s, this gender gap is startling. It raises serious questions for the ecosystem of services that support small firms: why are they not more successful in enabling women’s enterprise? In fact, women’s self-employment has risen significantly in recent years. But, at the same time, income from self-employment is worsening and the gender pay gap in entrepreneurship is huge. This raises concern that many women may not be generating ‘Good Work’ via entrepreneurship. How can we develop an enterprise ecosystem that supports women to develop successful and sustainable businesses and avoid poverty-level self-employment?
Join us for this seminar, hosted by the ERC and the ISBE Gender and Enterprise Network (GEN) where we will explore these questions and discuss the future of women’s enterprise policy.
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Micro-Businesses in Ireland: From Ambition to Innovation
Micro businesses, typically businesses with 9 employees or less, play an important role in stimulating innovation, employment and growth. Despite this, relatively little is known about this important segment of the business population as such businesses are often excluded from official surveys. This report published today presents the findings of a survey conducted on micro-businesses… Read more
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
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
UK Innovation Survey User Group
Around thirty people attended the UKIS User Group event held at BEIS on the 20th March. A policy round-table comprising Agnes Estebail (BEIS), Will Steele (IPO), and Stephen Miller (Design Council) identified remaining evidence gaps (among others) around IP valuation and benefits, design impacts on innovation and sectoral effectiveness of policy. A number of research papers… Read more
ERC State of Small Business Britain Conference 2016
ERC’s State of Small Business Britain Conference 2016, co-hosted with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme, welcomed over 100 delegates to the iconic London building, The Shard on 30th November. The morning session was chaired by Lucy Armstrong, Chair of the ERC’s Advisory board, and began with a welcome from ERC Director Professor Stephen… Read more
Partner Event : UK Innovation Survey User Group.
The UK Innovation Survey User Group launch meeting will be held on 12 July and will coincide with the release of UKIS 2015 to the research community.
The aim is to create a community of researchers who can benefit from each other’s experience of using the UKIS and also contribute to the improvement of the data.
At the launch event there will be an opportunity for the presentation of some research papers based on the UKIS data.
If you are interested in attending the event, presenting your research or for further information please contact jiao.liu@wbs.ac.uk
Deadline for registration is Friday June 17th.
