Presentation to CREME 18th Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference. Professor Mark Hart.

1. Making Diversity and Enterprise the
LEPs’ Business: the data challenge!
Professor Mark Hart
Deputy Director, Enterprise Research Centre
mark.hart@aston.ac.uk

2. 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

3. 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)

5. • Diversity Metrics – the sound of one hand
clapping

6. 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

7. Total Early-Stage
Entrepreneurial Activity

8. TEA Rates by Gender

9. Trends in Female TEA Rates

13. Female/Male Ratio - TEA

14. TEA Rates – First Generation
Immigrants

19. 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?

20. Contact us:
If you would like any more information about the ERC and any of its activities
please contact the Director, Stephen Roper at stephen.roper@wbs.ac.uk or
the Deputy Director, Mark Hart at mark.hart@aston.ac.uk.
More details about the activities of the ERC and our latest events can be
found at:
www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk