{"id":33943,"date":"2015-12-01T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T14:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/?p=33943"},"modified":"2018-01-03T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T11:23:38","slug":"partnering-to-deliver-sme-growth-establishing-a-community-of-interest-coi-group-to-develop-hei-as-institutional-anchors-through-research-led-business-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/partnering-to-deliver-sme-growth-establishing-a-community-of-interest-coi-group-to-develop-hei-as-institutional-anchors-through-research-led-business-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnering to Deliver SME Growth: Establishing a Community of Interest (COI) Group to develop HEI as \u201cInstitutional Anchors\u201d through Research-Led Business Support."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>On December 17<sup>th<\/sup> (10.30 \u2013 15.30), Room C502, The Curzon Building, Birmingham City University , The ERC (Enterprise Research Centre) and ISBE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) invite you to join the full establishment of a community of interest group specifically focusing on models of university\/SME engagement which support performance and growth.<\/p>\n<p>At last year\u2019s inaugural meeting Dr Mark Gilman, Professor of SME Growth &amp; Development, Birmingham City University led the formation of the group with the key aims being the establishment of a COI capable of building a range of research led activities which promote SME growth through university\/SME engagement. Issues discussed included: Why are participants interested in a COI; What does the available \u2018best practice\u2019 look like &#8211; including what are the capabilities of the institutions and what are the barriers to progressing such work; and What would\/should a successful COI do?<\/p>\n<p>For further\u00a0information please <a href=\"http:\/\/isbe.us10.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e54032e7399ddffe61a6a5f2f&amp;id=753c3217c9&amp;e=62a43d0e85\">click here<\/a> to download the Event Flyer.<br \/>\nThis\u00a0event it <strong>FREE<\/strong> to attend and funding to assist with travel expenses of PHD students is available if required. Please contact <a href=\"mailto:mark.gilman@bcu.ac.uk?subject=\">Mark Gilman<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>To register to come along please send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:lynn@isbe.org.uk?subject=Partnering%20to%20Deliver%20SME%20Growth\">lynn@isbe.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17th (10.30 \u2013 15.30), Room C502, The Curzon Building, Birmingham City University , The ERC (Enterprise Research Centre) and ISBE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) invite you to join the full establishment of a community of interest group specifically focusing on models of university\/SME engagement which support performance and growth. At last&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/partnering-to-deliver-sme-growth-establishing-a-community-of-interest-coi-group-to-develop-hei-as-institutional-anchors-through-research-led-business-support\/\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":36835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33944,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions\/33944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}