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Entrepreneurship research at CIMRÌý

Our centre serves as a platform for meaningful dialogue, hosting events, workshops, and debates that bring together experts, practitioners, and policymakers. Through impactful research publications and collaborative engagements, we provide valuable insights into building inclusive innovation systems, refining policy evaluation, and supporting diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems.eneurial landscape that is equitable, innovative, and sustainable.

Our research work within the Entrepreneurship fields spans a diverse array of domains, including:

  • inclusive entrepreneurship and innovation
  • entrepreneurial finance
  • entrepreneurship and SMEs.

By examining the interplay between policy, practice, and entrepreneurial activity, we aim to uncover strategies that enable individuals and organisations to thrive in a competitive and ever-evolving world.

Our Centre serves as a platform for meaningful dialogue, hosting events, workshops, and debates that bring together experts, practitioners, and policymakers. Through impactful research publications and collaborative engagements, we provide valuable insights into building inclusive innovation systems, refining policy evaluation, and supporting diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Join us in shaping a future where entrepreneurship acts as a catalyst for opportunity, resilience, and positive transformation.

Below you can find more information about our entrepreneurship research, including our recent publications, events and workshop in this field.

  • Recent publications within entrepreneurship research

    • Winstanley, J and Lawton Smith, H (2025) Written evidence to Welsh Parliament Equality and Social Justice Committee Anything’s Achievable with the Right Support: Tackling the Disability Employment Gap, March 2025 (reference DE 31).Ìý
    • Lawton Smith, H.ÌýandÌýMansour, D.Ìý(2022)ÌýProject Report. CIMR, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú, University of London, London, UK.
    • Vorley, T, Lawton Smith H Coogan, T, Owalla, B and Wing, K (2020)ÌýSupporting Diversity and Inclusion, Policy Brief, Innovate UKÌý
    • Lawton Smith, H., Winstanley, J., et al. (2023)ÌýThe Road to Wonder. A study exploring the barriers and opportunities to creating innovation and enterprise by disabled people: a summary.ÌýOxford, UK: Innovation Caucus.

  • Recent events and workshops within entrepreneurship

    • (4 December 2024)ÌýChair: Dr. Federica Rossi, Associate Professor of Economic Policy, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and Deputy Director, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Centre for Innovation Management Research; Speakers: Dr Jonathan Potter, OECD; Shannen Enright, Assistant Principal, Data and Evaluation Unit, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Ireland; Prof. Marc Cowling, Professor of Economics and Productivity, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
    • ÌýIn collaboration with the Enterprise Research Centre (UK) and Innovation & Research Caucus. The idea arose from conversations between Stephen Roper (Warwick University), ERC and IRC and Prof Tim Vorley OBE (Oxford Brookes and IRC), about how best to foster a dialogue between researchers in both organisations.Ìý
    • ’The Missing Link’ – Models in moving D&I Policy into Sustainable Working Practice within Entrepreneurial ecosystems (20 March 2024)ÌýPanelists: Helene Martin Gee – Savvitas Women in Enterprise; Penny Roberts – Co Founder BankAbility Ltd; Anna Roughley – Head of Insight – Lending Standards Board – Banking and Financial Services; Co-chairs: Jacqueline Winstanley (Universal Inclusion), Jonathan Potter (OECD).Ìý
    • (15 November 2023) Chair: Jacqueline Winstanley (Universal Inclusion) Speakers: Dr Jonathan Potter (OECD); Rachel Parker (Frangipan Bakery); Sassy Wyatt (Blind Girl Adventures); Sara McKee (Life Full Colour); Dr Shani Dhanda (Entrepreneur & Disability specialist).Ìý
    • (27 June 2023) Panel: Monder Ram OBE, Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME); Eugene Nizeyimana, CEO of SSCG Consulting and CEO African Business Chamber (AfBC); Emma Obanye, Managing Director for OneTech; Fiona Morrill, British Business Bank; Discussant: Professor Colette Henry, Head of the Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Business Strategy & Innovation at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.; Chair: Jacqueline Winstanley FRSA Universal Inclusion, The Inclusive Entrepreneur Network, Visiting Fellow of CIMR, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú University of London.Ìý

  • Partner research institutes and universities within entrepreneurship research

    • , Aston University
    • UIC Barcelona'sÌýQuality and Innovation for Service Excellence ()