{"id":46499,"date":"2023-03-27T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/?p=46499"},"modified":"2023-03-29T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T11:26:18","slug":"exploring-the-productivity-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/exploring-the-productivity-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the productivity gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-lh4cw3-307d05cd86d2a21efb92e79ec892f284\">\n.avia-image-container.av-lh4cw3-307d05cd86d2a21efb92e79ec892f284 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-lh4cw3-307d05cd86d2a21efb92e79ec892f284 av-styling- avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_gallery  avia-builder-el-first '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-46507 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-46507 avia_image' src=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/EmbeddedImage.png\" alt='' title='EmbeddedImage'  height=\"150\" width=\"240\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>The second\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/savvitas\/\">Savvitas<\/a> Business and Parliament Forum on women\u2019s entrepreneurship\u00a0 took place on\u00a0 March 22nd and was again skilfully chaired by Mark Hart, ERC, Aston Business School \u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAvj_zABz4BrwZjpydQiHQj4r5x7dCQTRf0\">Helene Martin Gee<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAGjDP0Bgee2FnsHC9YtzLvbklGcM9vW7PE\">Sue Lawton MBE.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0The topic this time was Productivity, exploring the UK\u2019s productivity gap, whether this is wider for women entrepreneurs, and if so, why?<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the perennial issues of access to finance, childcare, and embedding entrepreneurship into the curriculum, we considered the higher levels of productivity in other nations and what drives this. Investment in skills and training was agreed to be key, and we know the UK currently spends less per capita than France or Germany, for example. So Britain needs to invest more in business skills training, especially in technology. Likewise for the over 50s, as attracting them back to the workplace will drive up productivity. We look forward to seeing how the recently announced \u2018returnerships\u2019 fare. Local or regional support would be welcome, if not essential, and there is promising progress with libraries acting as enterprise hubs, based on the excellent work of the British Library. However, information on what\u2019s available is patchy. Better communication and signposting will increase access to training and enable skills development, which in turn would improve productivity.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance were Seema Malhotra MP, Stephen Hammond MP and Baroness Verma, as well as representatives from Goldman Sachs, NatWest, British Business Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, The Gender Index, World Business Women and three serial women entrepreneurs. 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