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 September 2018

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On the Value of Daughters

Latest Publications 

ERC SOTA Reviews

The ERC is delighted to launch our new ‘State of the Art’ (SOTA) review series today. These short, accessible evidence reviews bring together the existing knowledge on a range of topical themes, highlighting key evidence gaps. 

Innovation and Quality Management – What are the links? 
SOTA No 1
Stephen Roper
Read the SOTA here 
Discouraged Borrowers:
Measurement, Determinants and Impact 

SOTA No 2
Ross Brown 
Jose Liñares Zegarra
John O.S. Wilson

Read the SOTA here 
How Can We Attract and Retain More Internationally-mobile R&D?
SOTA No 3
Nigel Driffield 
Read the SOTA here 
Organisational Learning and Innovation in Supply Chains
SOTA No 4
Andrew Thomas
Read the SOTA here
What Supports the Adoption of Innovations Within Established 
(non-frontier) Firms?

SOTA No 5
Rosa Caiazza
Read the SOTA here
ERC Insights

Exploring the links between design investment, innovation and productivity
ERC Insight
Stephen Roper
The starting point for our analysis is the UK Innovation Survey indicator of whether or not each firm ‘engages in … design activities, including strategic, for the development or implementation of new or improved goods, services and processes’. Are firms which are engaging with design more likely to be innovating? More specifically, we explore whether firms which are engaging with design are more likely to be engaging in product or service innovation, process innovation and organisational innovation. The second stage of our analysis explores the extent to which each of the three types of innovation results in improvements in firms’ productivity.
Read the Insight paper here 

Will Micro-Businesses Thrive After Brexit?

Mark Hart contributed to a Forbes article published 31st August.

"The most authoritative survey of UK micro-businesses was undertaken by the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) in 2018 (Q1) and showed that many are home-based and three-quarters have no growth ambition and aim to ‘keep their business similar to how it operates now’. So, with March 2019 approaching at speed, the evidence would suggest that, given their current modest performance and ambitions, this is not a group of firms that are ‘set to thrive’ after whatever type of Brexit emerges. Increasing uncertainty over the potential for a ‘no deal’ will only serve to exacerbate this assessment.”

Read the full article here

Longitudinal Small Business Survey.
Call for proposals 2018 

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has made available £20,000 to fund four secondary analyses of the first three waves of the Longitudinal Small Business Survey. The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) is administering this call on behalf of BEIS. Note that applications will not be accepted from anyone who is being supported through current ERC grant funding. Applications are welcome from those who received funding from the earlier LSBS secondary analysis calls.

Applications for funding should be submitted to ERC by 31st October 2018. Successful bids will be announced by 16th November 2018.

Funded activity should take place between November 2018 and March 2019.

Click here for further details and application pack. 

New commissioned Projects

Two new commissioned projects have commenced this month.
In partnership with the Federation of Small Business, ERC are exploring the impact of business support in lower productivity areas of the UK. A second project supported by the Centre for Progressive Policy will explore the determinants of productivity in six UK sectors.

Out and About with ERC colleagues

Maria Wishart, ERC Research Fellow presented at the British Academy of Management conference, which was held at the University of the West of England, Bristol, on September 5th to 7th. The paper focusing on Moral identity work in senior business managers is part of a wider study which uses narrative analysis to explore the moral identity work of senior managers in UK for-profit businesses. The study offers insight into the ways in which managers respond to dominant discourses that often cast them as unethical. It finds that participants often push back against these discourses by asserting their roles as moral champions within their organisations. They also express a tension between being seen as morally good and being acknowledged as competent practitioners, and often characterise their organisations as systems that work to thwart their moral agendas, and which they need to resist. These findings contribute to understanding in the under-researched area of individual moral identity within a business context, as well as offering a fresh perspective to the broader field of business ethics research.

 
Mark Hart was the guest speaker at a roundtable event in Liverpool on “Building an effective ecosystem for entrepreneurs”.  The event was hosted by Maggie O'Carroll, CEO, The Women’s Organisation  and was attended by a wide range of public and private sector organisations including Liverpool City-Region; Liverpool LEP; Halton Chamber of Commerce; IOD; CBI; FSB, BIDs; Liverpool City Council; NatWest as well as a number of leading entrepreneurs across the city-region.
Read the latest news article here 
 

What's On


October 
ERC Monthly Seminar
Tuesday 9th October
Time TBC, Aston University  

We will be joined by James Tout, Delivery Director, Journalista who will be presenting on the importance of Social Media.
Places are limited for this event. If you are interested in attending please email centremanager@enterpriseresearch.ac.uk
November 
ERC Monthly Seminar
Tuesday 13th November 
12.00 - 14.00, Warwick Business School

Presentation tbc
Places are limited for this event. If you are interested in attending please email centremanager@enterpriseresearch.ac.uk

ERC PhD Studentships


We welcome applications for 3 PhD studentships in the general area of SME performance which will be based at both Warwick and Aston Business Schools. Interested applicants are asked to provide a brief (3-4 page) project proposal outlining their proposed PhD research topic. This should include references to key literature and research gaps, an overview of the focus of the thesis and proposed research methods and an indication of potential publication outlets. We welcome proposals on any area of SME competitiveness but preference will be given to applications which are relevant to UK policy agendas around productivity, innovation and exporting and/or business growth. We particularly welcome applications which have a spatial dimension within the UK or a comparative international perspective. More information about the ERC, available datasets and existing research are available at www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk.
 
Proposals should be sent in the first instance to the ERC Centre Manager and will be considered on receipt.

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