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Leeds University Business School is part of a successful ESRC bid.

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Leeds University Business School is part of a successful ESRC bid investigating how high growth entrepreneurs grow their business by looking at entrepreneurial cognition (gazelle thinking).

Professor Nigel Lockett, director of the Leeds Enterprise Centre and Professor of Enterprise at the Leeds University Business School, will be a researcher on the team led by Professor Lynn Martin, Professor of Entrepreneurship, and Dr Clare Schofield at the Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University. The project entitled 'Sharing and building university and business perspectives of how to enable high growth in small firms' will shed new light on how to support high growth SME owner-managers. Project partners are Northwest company, Winning Pitch, which supports ambitious SME owner-managers though growth coaching and recently won the contract for the BIS-funded Business Accelerator programme for the North of England.