The Small Business Charter provides business schools with a network of schools to share experience and build knowledge in the field of enterprise, entrepreneurship and business engagement. Here, you can read ideas, insights and best practice from business schools.
See ‘Success stories’ to read about how businesses have benefitted from connecting with business schools that hold the SBC award.
Today, in a world where students will travel 8000 miles to be educated, is it enough to simply educate them through the locational lens of their home Higher Education Institution…
No industry or business sector has been untouched by the challenges of COVID-19. Family businesses are amongst those most deeply impacted by COVID-19. While Government support has…
1. There are no certainties in employment anymore We all know that the cosy conceit of “jobs for life” is pretty much the stuff of history. My own awakening to this truth…
COVID-19 may still dominate almost every conversation as we head into 2021 but the encouraging news of a vaccine has at least injected the discussion with a hefty shot of optimism.…
Slowly but surely, we are heading back to normality. The world is reopening and we’re ready to embrace it with open arms. After months of lockdown, you might assume that…
Strathclyde Business School has one of the leading Entrepreneurship departments in Europe, the Hunter Centre of Entrepreneurship (HCE) with more than 30 academics specialising in…
“No one said building a company is easy. But it's time to be honest about how brutal it really is -- and the price so many founders secretly pay.” Jessica Bruder…
Governments love league tables. We have them for schools, for deprivation, for universities, but funnily enough not for the performance of constituency MPs. In our sector we have…
Business Schools at Solent University and the University of Portsmouth are collaborating to support regional businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. With regional economies…
Nottingham Business School shares some top tips it's learnt from discussion with SMEs.
How can businesses be engaged at a distance?
New business school research adds impetus on employers to address the 'motherhood penalty'.
Find out how Strathclyde Business School embeds and supports student enterprise skills across their activities.
A large regional business school shares how it has been widening access to student enterprise.
Techstars' Startup Week™ Dublin, powered by Dublin City Council, brought over 3500 entrepreneurs, local leaders and friends together over five days to build momentum and foster…
For Aston University, enterprise and entrepreneurship are seen to operate most effectively when viewed in unison and the goal is to support graduate outcomes and start-up…
What role could and should business schools be playing to promote student enterprise fit for the modern economy?
Our second case study on how business schools are supporting student enterprise across the university.
Cardiff Business School shares research on understanding how Small Businesses shape, and are shaped by, technological change.
Nottingham University Business School is a Russell Group institution based in the Midlands and with international branch campuses. In 2017/18 the institution generated an income of…
Our latest report examines the role that SBC award-holding business schools perform in the delivery of enterprise education and entrepreneurship across the university, the benefits…
Graduate recruits could be the missing ingredient for small businesses, according to Lancaster's latest research.
Dr Sukanlaya Sawang highlights the value and need for business schools to support senior entrepreneurs.
The Aston Centre for Growth reflects on 5 years of success with the Small Business Charter.
Our Chair, Michelle Ovens MBE, sets out how the SBC helps schools engage with small businesses.
Sam Dumitriu, Research Director at the Entrepreneurs Network, gives some timely advice on selling the value of management for UK productivity
The ambitions of business school students preparing for the “real world” are frequently dictated by something akin to the ice-cold strain of logic that guided the career…
Teamwork is the cornerstone of entrepreneurship education A key objective of entrepreneurship education is to give students the first-hand experience of the processes involved in…
In the mid-1990s, when I was a PhD student researching career transition, policymakers touted entrepreneurship as a source of hope. Fast-forward to the present day and we find…
Professor Tim Vorley and Michelle Ovens MBE The Industrial Strategy is one of the boldest policy initiatives to be announced in recent times, intended to provide both sectoral and…
A research project led by Lancaster University Management School is working with people facing barriers to enterprise and employment and successfully getting them back into…
The Small Business Charter award is a mark of excellence in itself – a demonstration to the world of the incredible value business schools bring to small businesses. That alone…
Much has already been written on this website and elsewhere, regarding the benefits when university business schools and local businesses work closely together. In this article, I…
It is clear that there has been a shift in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector with a move towards a more diversified portfolio of educational opportunities, especially the growth…
We would like to congratulate Saleem Arif on his recent appointment to the Small Business Charter Management Board. Chief Executive and Founder of Reviewsolicitor and Entrepreneur…
Dublin City University (DCU) Business School has long recognised the holistic learning benefits that students gain from working with SMEs both on our undergraduate and…
Bristol Business School and Bristol Law School at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) are involved in Pro Bono work as far afield as Kenya and Uganda, the United…
900 Students, 61 Workshops, 31 Business Presenters, highlights of the University of Portsmouth’s successful IMPACT week 2017 From time to time I am challenged by businesses as to…
In 2010, when I became dean of Nottingham University Business School, I assumed responsibility for and oversight of more than 5,000 students at campuses in the UK, China and…
Professor Martin Binks is the former dean of Nottingham University Business School and Professor of Entrepreneurial Development at its Haydn Green Institute for Innovation and…
At the cutting edge of the entrepreneurial community are young entrepreneurs. Young entrepreneurs are needed to rescue and revitalize the economy and the inexperience of youth…
Higher Education life began at 40 for me. After many years working in big business and small, including my own start-up, I took an unplanned ‘pivot’ into the world of…
I am almost allergic to filling in forms. The prospect sends me into a decline. Others will often step in to cover, and fill them in for me, either out of sympathy but probably…
By Dr. Paschal Anosike, Director, Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CAEL), University of Wolverhampton Business School Entrepreneurship education is high on the…
23rd June 2016, and the Centre for Growth team from Aston Business School headed en masse to the NEC to enjoy a day of pitching, networking, interesting conversations and…
Whether design, production or retailing led, enterprise and entrepreneurship are at the heart of the fashion business world and is a source of innovation and new thinking. The…
De Montfort University (DMU) recognises small businesses are an engine for economic prosperity and growth, as well as being a source of innovative fresh ideas and practices. Our…
At London South Bank University (LSBU) our mission is to be recognised as an enterprising civic university that addresses real world challenges. As a business school we have…
Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEEL) The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEEL) was established at the University of Liverpool…
As part of UCL’s commitment to enterprise engagement this summer’s internship programme seeks to develop student employability skills by funding more than 100 eight to ten week…
Should the enterprise opportunities offered to our HE students be co-curricular or curricular? There are some good arguments for both. Funding for start-ups, business plan…
As part of the University of ‘Opportunity’, Wolverhampton Business School is committed to stimulating and developing the economic regeneration of the West Midlands through the…
The University of Leeds shares the secrets of their success:
The latest ranking of business schools has just been released by the Princeton Review and a certain type of business school continues to dominate – American ones. Having earned…
About 18 months ago I was in the middle of gathering evidence for my second report on small firms, “Growing your Business”, when I met the chief executive of the Association of…
A third of new businesses will not survive to their third birthday. So they need all the help they can get. They’re now set to receive it from outstanding business schools who…
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