Making Diversity and Enterprise the LEPs’ Business: the data challenge!
Professor Mark Hart
Deputy Director, Enterprise Research Centre
Developing Local Policy Agenda around Growth
• LEP SEPs and ESIFs submitted and funding allocated
• Growth Hubs – initial pathfinders; Wave 2 Cities (Lancaster University RGF Programme)
• BIS - Simplifying the Local Business Support Landscape - a guide for Cities and LEPs – 3 pilots: EM3 LEP; Northamptonshire LEP; Sheffield City Region LEP
Metrics
• Proportion of fast-growing firms (jobs) in the business population (2009-12)
• Net job creation ratios for 2011-12• 3-year survival rates of start-ups (2009-12)• Proportion of surviving start-ups that reach £1m T/O
(2009-12_• Proportion of existing £1-2m T/O businesses which
grow to £3m T/O (2009-12)
• Diversity Metrics – the sound of one hand clapping
GEM’s primary focus is on the study of three areas:
• To measure differences in entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspiration between countries
• To uncover factors which underpin these differences
• To identify policies that may enhance entrepreneurial activity
www.gemconsortium.org
Total Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Activity
TEA Rates by Gender
Trends in Female TEA Rates
Female/Male Ratio - TEA
TEA Rates – First Generation Immigrants
Points to Ponder
• Analysis of the LEP ‘entrepreneurial ecosystem’ continues within ERC
• Diversity metrics will lie at the core of this analysis – yet limitations with the data
• Will we ever get our data challenge resolved?
Contact us:
If you would like any more information about the ERC and any of its activities please contact the Director, Stephen Roper at [email protected] or
the Deputy Director, Mark Hart at [email protected].
More details about the activities of the ERC and our latest events can be found at:
www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk
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