State of Small Business Britain Conference 2024
This year’s State of Small Business Britain Conference took place on 3rd October at The Shard in London, facilitated by ERC Steering Group Chair Jane Galsworthy. This was the ninth ERC annual conference, an event which brings together a mixed, well-informed community of academics, policymakers, practitioners and business leaders interested in small business policy for… Read more
The relationships between business support, managerial practices and firm performance over time
Published: 30 October 2024
ERC Research paper No 114
Investigating Disparities in SMEs Digitalisation
Published: 28 October 2024
ERC Research paper No 111
Understanding Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Use in Rural Small Medium Enterprises: An Opportunity to Level Up?
Published: 29 October 2024
ERC Research paper No 113
Advice and SMEs: Who Takes it and What Happens Thereafter?
Published: 31 October 2024
ERC Research paper 112
What can we learn from Swedish approaches to workplace mental health?
In a recent speech, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that work is good for those with anxiety and milder depression and has signalled that benefits may be removed from some mental health sufferers as part of a reform of the benefits system. But his assertion has provoked an outcry from mental health charities including Mind,… Read more








