Taxes designed to encourage a green transition can instead penalise smaller businesses and ensure they’re left behind.
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Small businesses are disproportionately affected by natural disasters. To improve community resilience, we need to help them ‘build back better’.
Small businesses fail to recognise the business benefits and importance of prioritise staff mental health and well-being.
SME’s ability to innovate and work internationally can give them an advantage in the marketplace, and ensure a long-term return on investment.
Simply providing more money will not accelerate the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.
And Brexit could make things even more challenging.
To make graduates employable and close the training gap, we need to strengthen links to industry and pay attention to the changing needs of businesses.
It looks like the economists who warned of the potential damage to UK businesses due to Brexit were correct.
Australia’s insolvency laws inhibit growth and innovation. They weren’t designed for small business, which make up 97% of all businesses.
South Africa’s 14 point plan to achieve economic recovery lacks detail and vision of how the country is going to get itself out the prevailing economic crisis.
SMEs make up 99.9% of all businesses in the UK – boosting their productivity could add billions to the post-Brexit economy.
Micro-brewers are increasing in Australia, which is surprising given the unfair excises and rebates they face.
The industrial revolution wasn’t all about the spinning jenny and steam power. Money talked, and it needs to again if power and prosperity are to flow to the UK regions.
While insolvencies are climbing in some of the resources states, other small businesses have found ways to survive.
Policies for encouraging research, development and startups are good but both major parties need to move beyond this to help Australia innovate.
Business groups point to a GDP stimulus from a company tax cut, but modelling shows small businesses miss out.
Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is eyeing to join the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, already signed by a dozen countries, including Australia.
African governments should adopt a top-down rather than bottom-up approach to encouraging the creation of businesses.
The signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership belies the fact that the US’s share of trade in the region has been declining for some time.
Top contributors
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Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Business, Durham University
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Director of Studies, Loughborough University
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Professor of Enterprise and Organisation and Director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Enterprise (CSSE), The Open University
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Emeritus Professor of Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor in Entrepreneurship and Small Business Finance, University of St Andrews
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Associate Graduate Program Director of M.A. in International Relations, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Salve Regina University
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Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
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Assistant Professor in Shipping and International Logistics, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Operations Management, Aston University
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Associate Professor of Strategic Analysis, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Strategy and Family Business, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University