About the author: Dr Isla Kapasi is an early career researcher in the field of entrepreneurship. She has recently been awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant to investigate entrepreneurial motivations in a context of poverty entrepreneurship. Self-employment across the UK has risen sharply in the past two decades. Figures...
We are all familiar with the collective noun for cattle, dancers and geese [herd, troupe and gaggle] but what about entrepreneurs?
Are the various disparate enterprise strands converging to make today the Golden Age of Enterprise? At first glance it is difficult to see the connection between enterprise in schools and the rapid increase in the number of small businesses.
As the Open University Business School publishes the 30th Anniversary Edition of Quarterly Survey of Small Business in Britain we can reflect on three decades of research into small firms. What have we learnt?
With the job market for graduates being so competitive and students considering the value of doing a degree, what can we learn from talking to small businesses about their experiences of employing graduates?