realbusiness   27/07/2014 Startup survival rates are best outside of big cities Huffington Post 10/06/2014 Coalition Overlooking ‘Worrying’ Rise Of Self-Employed Brits, Says Vicky Pryce The Telegraph Online  11/06/2014 Start-ups’ survival rate lowest in Liverpool Huffington Post 11/06/2014 Ukip’s ‘Ridiculous Nonsense’ About Migrants Slammed by Lord Bilimoria Business Reporter   11.06.2014 47 per cent of Liverpool start-ups… Read more

Press Coverage ERC Published on November 16th 2015, the report was co-authored by Enterprise Research Centre, Goldman Sachs and British Business Bank. Economic Voice 16/11/2015 New report finds smaller businesses are key to solving UK’s ‘productivity gap’ Economic Voice 16/11/2015 SME growth ambition key to UK productivity puzzle Economic Voice 16/11/2015 Small businesses might be… Read more

As the tortuously complex process of the UK’s departure from the EU takes another twist, Britain’s economy presents us with a deceptively simple conundrum. Yes, we have had record headline jobs growth in recent years coupled with falling unemployment.  There are, however, widespread concerns about the quality of those jobs caused by the growing ‘gig… Read more

ISBE 2017 will be held in Belfast on November 7th -9th. ERC colleagues will be in attendance at the conference with several papers accepted this year for presentation. Mark Hart has two papers accepted at this years conference The Effect of Internet Availability on Entrepreneurial Growth Expectations (Levie and Hart) The UK’s High Growth Firms… Read more

During the last decade High-Growth Firms (HGFs) – often referred to as ‘Scale-Ups’, have become increasingly recognised as important by policy makers. We know relatively little about the dynamics of these firms as they evolve over time. This paper develops a measurement framework designed to track the population of high growth firms (HGFs) between 1998… Read more

We have an opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher to work in the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) on a 15 month Fixed Term Contract (FT) from 1st September 2017. The ERC is a collaborative research centre led by Aston and Warwick Business Schools with Imperial and Strathclyde Business Schools and Queen’s University School of Management as… Read more

The Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) have made available £20,000 to fund 3 or 4 secondary analyses of the first two waves of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) is administering this call on behalf of BIS. Please note that applications will not be accepted from anyone who has been… Read more

Business Dynamics and Productivity Mark Hart and Michael Anyadike-Danes, ERC Aston Business School contributed a chapter to the new OECD Publication Business Dynamics and Productivity. Abstract: Business dynamics plays an important role not only as a driver of job creation but also as an engine of reallocation and productivity growth. This book aims at providing… Read more

The UK has historically one of the poorest records internationally of the proportion of its business population that grow.  The most recent data from the ONS indicate that this continues to be the case.  The problem is not new and has been the focus of public policy for decades without any impact on the headline… Read more

The updated UK Local Growth Dashboard 2017 has been released today, Monday March 27th. The UK Local Growth Dashboard has been developed by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) and builds on the LEP Growth Dashboard first launched in June 2014.  Its purpose is to present a set of growth metrics for start-ups and existing firms… Read more