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Past Events

Challenges and best practice in supporting small businesses, student entrepreneurs and the local economy

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13th April 2017

Challenges and best practice in supporting small businesses, student entrepreneurs and the local economy 13th April 2016, Lancaster University Management School This Small…

EmployabilityLocal business supportStart-ups
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The Role of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI)

Work Foundation, 21 Palmer Street, London, SW1H 0AD

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5th December 2017

Stimulating Innovation through Public Procurement: The Role of the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) offers a…

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Business Advice

Family firms – lessons in innovation

Family firms are traditionally badged the conservatives of the business world – unadventurous, slow to change, and too fond of familiar traditions and habits. However recent…

EntrepreneurshipFamily business
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Highly illogical, Captain

Star Trek’s Mr Spock would often give his Enterprise shipmates a look of both sympathy and superiority whenever he believed they were allowing their emotions to rule over…

ManagementEconomic growthOrganisational behaviour
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Crunching through the gears of employee engagement

Lesley Giles, Director of the Work Foundation, unpacks an effective and comprehensive employee engagement strategy

Human ResourcesHealthcareEmployee EngagementResearch
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Knowledge

Breaking barriers to enterprise and unemployment

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…

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Graduates offer small businesses a better route to innovation – but firms don’t know how to access them

Graduate recruits could be the missing ingredient for small businesses, according to Lancaster's latest research.

RecruitmentResearchInnovation
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Success Stories

The small business owner’s story – Halls Food Group

Joe Hall has been involved in his family’s bakery business since 1990. The original company was founded in 1933 by Joe’s grandfather and went into liquidation in 2006, however,…

Business engagementMBAFamily business
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Lancaster students travel to Singapore to take part in global sustainability debate

Ten students from Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) have just returned from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) annual meeting in…

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