Exploring Enterprise

Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director at the ERC,is joined by Richard Jeffery, National Director of GC Business, based in Manchester, and Jane Galsworthy, Managing Director of Oxford Innovation Advice, and also the Chair of the ERC’s Steering Group. discussing a big question for all those running or providing support to small businesses – what is the future of business support?
 

Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director of the ERC, is  joined by Dr Lorna Treanor, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Nottingham, and Fiona Morrill, Senior Manager at the British Business Bank to discuss and reflect on the  theme of ‘inclusive entrepreneurship’.
What is meant by Inclusive Entrepreneurship and why is it important?

Professor Stephen Roper, Director of the ERC, is  joined by Amber Burridge, Head of Fraud Intelligence at Cifas, Alan Bryce, Acting Head of the Fraud Advisory Panel, and Kristina Grinkina , Policy Adviser with responsibility for business crime at the Federation of Small Businesses reflecting on an important theme which has become a growing concern for SMEs over recent years – business crime, and particularly fraud.
 

Professor Mark Hart, Deputy Director at the ERC is  joined by Fiona Graham, Director of External Affairs and Policy at the Institute for Family Business, Craig Beaumont,  Chief of External Affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses, and Alex Veitch Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the British Chambers of Commerce  reflecting on the implications of last months’ Autumn Statement for SMEs and looking ahead to what lies ahead in 2023.

In this episode, Stephen Roper is joined by Professor Ute Stephan, Professor of Entrepreneurship at King's College London, Arosha Brouwer Co-Founder and CEO at Quan, a digital well-being and team performance platform, and Jason Jaspal, Assistant Director of Business Development at the UK mental health charity Samaritans, for a discussion on the mental wellbeing of entrepreneurs and SME leaders.
If you want to find out more about the work of Samaritans, please visit: https://www.samaritans.org/.  You can find out more about Quan here: https://www.quanwellbeing.com/
 

In this episode, Professor Mark Hart is joined by Liz Barclay, the UK’s Small Business Commissioner, James Blackman, Managing Partner at Cocoonfxmedia, and Nicholas Hardman Team Manager at Business Debtline, to reflect on the financial challenges facing small businesses.
If you are affected by the issues discussed in this podcast, Business Debtline provides free debt advice over the phone and online, and can be contacted here: https://www.businessdebtline.org/. The Office of the Small Business Commissioner considers complaints from small businesses about payment problems with their larger business customers. You can find out more here: https://www.smallbusinesscommissioner.gov.uk/

In the final episode of this series ERC Director Stephen Roper is joined by by Jill Pay, Chair of The Gender Index; Yvonne Greeves, Director of Women in Business at the NatWest Group; and Julie Kapsalis, Chair of Coast to Capital LEP  reflecting on the important theme of ‘women and enterprise’.

In this episode of the Exploring Enterprise podcast series from the Enterprise Research Centre, Mark Hart is joined by Philip King, previously the Small Business Commissioner and responsible for advising small businesses on their trading relationships and Ant Persse, Chief Executive of Optimum Finance, a specialist invoice finance company  and newly established Saltare Technologies Limited, a Fintech that aims to support businesses with their payment challenges. In this epsiode the discussion reflects on the theme of ‘changing the late payment culture for SMEs’, an issue that is now attracting increasing attention.