Knowledge Sharing

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.

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How to Re-engage your Employees Post-Covid

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…

Benchmarking doesn’t have to be a league table

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…

How UK Business Schools can support their local small businesses

Our Chair, Michelle Ovens MBE, sets out how the SBC helps schools engage with small businesses.

Encouraging long-term relationships between universities and entrepreneurs

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…

Why it’s good to get out and connect with the world of business

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…

Learning By Other People’s Rules – The Benefits of Applying to the Small Business Charter

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…

Pitchfest 2016: Aston Business School’s commitment to supporting enterprise

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…

DMU: Helping small businesses succeed

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…

Supporting enterprise and small businesses at the University of Liverpool Management School

Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEEL) The Centre for Enterprise and Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEEL) was established at the University of Liverpool…

The University of ‘Opportunity’: How Wolverhampton supports SMEs

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…