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Longitudinal Small Business Survey

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Small Business Planning is Sticky but neither a Universal Practice nor a Guaranteed Path to Success.

19/11/2025
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Management and Leadership Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Growing Pains: Supporting Inclusive Growth Through Understanding Women-led Business Exporting

18/11/2025
Business Growth Diversity Entrepreneurship Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
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Longitudinal Exploration of the Role of External Finance in Helping SMEs Achieve Growth, Higher Productivity and Potential in Relation to their Transition to Net Zero

12/11/2025
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance Sustainability
Research Paper

The impact of R&D and exporting on advanced technology adoption among UK SMEs

11/11/2025
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Technology Adoption and Productivity: Evidence from UK SMEs

05/11/2025
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Understanding micro-businesses: Evidence from the Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2015-2023

04/11/2025
Business Growth Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
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The impact of flexible work on SME Performance: An analysis of flexible working arrangements, innovation and productivity in Scotland

19/11/2024
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Management and Leadership Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Advice and SMEs: Who Takes it and What Happens Thereafter?

31/10/2024
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Management and Leadership
Research Paper

The relationships between business support, managerial practices and firm performance over time

30/10/2024
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Understanding Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Use in Rural Small Medium Enterprises: An Opportunity to Level Up?

29/10/2024
Business Growth Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey
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Investigating Disparities in SMEs Digitalisation

28/10/2024
Diversity Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey
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Demand for external finance by environmentally-motivated SMEs: an exploration of geographical disparities and potential in relation to Net Zero

27/07/2023
Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

SME performance in core and peripheral UK regions: Exploring the role of innovation and firm networks during times of financial distress

26/07/2023
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Brexit and Digital Technology Adoption of UK SMEs

25/07/2023
Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

The impact of Brexit on the internationalisation, innovation and turnover of UK SMEs: Implications for the UK’s industrial strategy and the ‘levelling up’ agenda

20/07/2023
Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Mapping Schumpeterian Outcomes in the UK Small Business Population over Time – The Effect of Social and Environmental Orientation on Innovation, Exporting & Growth

18/07/2023
Business Growth Innovation Internationalisation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Sustainability
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The Uneven Spatial Nature of Access to External Finance in UK SMEs: Determinants, Impacts and the “Levelling Up” Agenda

23/06/2022
Business Growth Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Policy Briefing

The Uneven Spatial Nature of Access to External Finance in UK SMEs: Determinants, Impacts and the “Levelling Up” Agenda

23/06/2022
Business Growth Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Exploring External Finance links to Build Back Better a Green UK SME Economy

21/06/2022
Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey Sustainability
Research Paper

SMEs as Social Enterprises: Regional Disparities, Access to Finance, Strategic Intentions, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

17/05/2022
Business Growth COVID-19 Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Spatial disparities in SMEs productivity in England

18/02/2020
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Policy Briefing

Spatial disparities in SMEs productivity in England.

18/02/2020
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

The Role of Innovation in Small Business Performance: A Regional Perspective.

06/02/2020
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Policy Briefing

The Role of Innovation in Small Business Performance: A Regional Perspective. Research Paper No 82

06/02/2020
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Exploring the link between training and innovation using the Longitudinal Small Business Survey.

03/10/2019
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

An Investigation of UK SME Access to Finance, Growth and Productivity, 2015-2017

16/09/2019
Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

University Engagement and Productivity in Innovative SMEs: An Empirical Assessment.

12/09/2019
Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Productivity of the UK’s small and medium sized enterprises: insights from the Longitudinal Small Business Survey.

13/06/2018
Innovation Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Management capability, business support and the performance of micro-businesses in the UK.

31/05/2018
Longitudinal Small Business Survey Management and Leadership
Research Paper

An empirical examination of discouraged borrowers in the UK.

24/05/2018
Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Business support and SME performance: exploratory analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2015 and 2016

16/05/2018
Longitudinal Small Business Survey Management and Leadership Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Actual and intended growth in family firms and non-family owned firms: Are they different?

13/07/2017
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Rural business aspirations, obstacles and support: an analysis of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey 2015

22/03/2017
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey Productivity and performance
Research Paper

Assessing the characteristics, determinants and spatial variations of internationalised new ventures in the UK.

16/02/2017
Business Growth Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Exploring the success and barriers to SME access to finance and its potential role in achieving growth.

14/12/2016
Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Policy Briefing

Exploring the success and barriers to SME access to finance and its potential role in achieving growth.

14/12/2016
Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

The contribution of alternative finance to business growth.

08/12/2016
Business Growth Finance Longitudinal Small Business Survey
Research Paper

Publications

Predicting Business Growth

February 2, 2026

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The Innovation State of the Nation 2025: Survey Report

December 22, 2025

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Entrepreneurial Alertness in Dynamic Environments: Mediating Pathways to Entrepreneurial Orientation and Performance

December 10, 2025

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Workplace Mental Health in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

November 26, 2025

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Small Business Planning is Sticky but neither a Universal Practice nor a Guaranteed Path to Success.

November 19, 2025

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Growing Pains: Supporting Inclusive Growth Through Understanding Women-led Business Exporting

November 18, 2025

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