Resources for SMEs
Relevant materials from CIMR and its collaborators are presented here for the use of SMEs. This page contains a variety of resources that provide important information for funding, growing, and innovating your business. You will also learn about markets, regulations, innovation systems, environmental and social governance and more. The resources include:
- Academic and industrial publications
- Videos
- Training resources
CIMR Publications for SMEs
- Some of our research is carried out through formally funded research projects, and in interaction with various research networks we host or participate in.
- The current inter-related and inter-disciplinary research themes of the research centre that are of SMEs’ benefit are:
- Public and private entrepreneurship and innovation finance
- Entrepreneurship support networks
- Intellectual property rights
- Sustainability: ESG, environmental finance, green finance
- Emerging technologies: Regional and sectoral innovation
- Institutions, markets and regulation
- Below our links to our academic publications relevant to SMEs:
- Mapping ethnic minority women entrepreneurs’ support initiatives: Experiences from the UK, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla
- Disability entrepreneurship research: review and critical reflection through the lens of individual-opportunity nexus, Te Klangboonkrong and Ning Baines
- Public innovation intermediaries and digital co-creation, Federica Rossi, Ana Colovic, Annalisa Caloffi and Margherita Russo
- Experience versus youth: An exploratory study of the motivations of older entrepreneurs, Gillian Gray and Helen Lawton Smith.
- The microlevel actions undertaken by owner-managers in improving the sustainability practices of cultural and creative small and medium enterprises: a United Kingdom-Italy comparison. Del Giudice, M. and Khan, Z. and De Silva, Muthu and Scuotto, V. and Caputo, F. and Carayannis, E.
- Business model innovation by international social purpose organizations: the role of dynamic capabilities. De Silva, Muthu and Al-Tabbaa, O. and Khan, Z.
- Long-term innovation outcomes of university-industry collaborations: the role of ‘bridging’ vs ‘blurring’ boundary spanning practices. Rossi, Federica and De Silva, Muthu and Baines, Ning and Rosli, Ainurul
- Does affective evaluation matter for the success of university-industry collaborations? A sentiment analysis of university-industry collaborative project reports. De Silva, Muthu and Rossi, Federica and Yip, N.K.T. and Rosli, Ainurul
- The effect of firms’ relational capabilities on knowledge acquisition and co-creation. De Silva, Muthu and Rossi, Federica
- The long-term impact of engaged scholarship: how do SMEs capitalise on their engagement with academics to explore new opportunities? Rosli, Ainurul and De Silva, Muthu and Rossi, Federica and Yip, N.
- What makes SMEs more likely to collaborate? Analysing the role of regional policy. Caloffi, A. and Rossi, Federica and Russo, M.
- Finding the right partners: institutional and personal modes of governance of university–industry interactions. Bodas Freitas, I.M. and Geuna, A. and Rossi, Federica
- All publications of CIMR Birkbeck staff by year (on Biron)
CIMR Videos
- We organize regular events at CIMR where academics, students, policymakers, practitioners, and professionals in public and private sectors engage in stimulating discussions in the broad contexts of innovation, entrepreneurship and management. The videos we created from these events are published on our YouTube Channel. Moreover, our interviews with inspiring professionals from academia and the industry can be also found on our YouTube channel. View CIMR videos
- External Publications
- You can find publications and blogs of organisations and individuals which collaborate with CIMR in SME-related activities.
- NEN to help bring Institute of Collaborative Working frameworks to the Third Sector – National Enterprise Network
- How can SMEs make the most of public R&D investment? – Hub of Knowledge Co-creation
External Training
- You can find useful training materials and tools created by external organisations and individuals collaborating with CIMR in SME-related activities.
- 15 hours free training and mentoring to help Micro and SMEs explore cross-border trading – National Enterprise Network