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:

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:

CIMR Research in Focus curated blogs:

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. Below are some examples:


  • Dr Simon Philbin – When science & business talk – Collaboration. Link to video
  • Civilising AI: Applying AI to Solve Practical Business. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Kimberley Mamhende. Link to video
  • Innovation finance: Public or Private? Link to video
  • When science and business talk: Greenbone. Link to video
  • Researching BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurship: Professor Thomas Cooney. Link to video
  • Inspiring BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Piers Roberts. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Phil Connolly. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Jabo Butera. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Sam Everard. Link to video
  • Researching BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurship: Dr Eva Kasperova. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Diana Crouch. Link to video
  • Supporting BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurs: Jane Hatton. Link to video
  • Researching BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurship: Dr Te Klangboonkrong. Link to video
  • Researching BAME and Disabled Entrepreneurship: Dr Ning Baines. Link to video
  • APPG for BAME business owners. Link to video
  • CIMR in conversation with Touker Suleyman. Link to video
  • Unlocking the potential of Black and minority ethnic entrepreneurs. Link to video
  • Entrepreneurship policies through a gender lens. Link to video
  • Diversity and entrepreneurship workshop. Link to video

CIMR Research in Brief video series:

  • Melina Padayachy – The Innovator’s method. Link to video (2’56”)
  • Dr. Ning Baines – Disability entrepreneurship research. Link to video (5’21”)
  • Saverio Romeo – The emerging quantum technology industry: Capital cities, entrepreneurship and policies. Link to video (7’48”)
  • Annalisa Caloffi – Evaluating policies for innovation intermediaries. Link to video (7’33”)

CIMR PhD Research in Focus video series:

  • Ayse Seyyide – Refugee entrepreneurship. Link to video (3’22”)
  • Doyin Olorunfemi – Entrepreneurial learning. Link to video (3’20”)
  • Dina Mansour – Institutional entrepreneurship in Egypt. Link to video (8’12”)
  • Thanos Fragkandreas – Innovation and income inequality. Link to video (6’19”)

External Publications

You can find publications and blogs of organisations and individuals which collaborate with CIMR in SME-related activities.

External Training

You can find useful training materials and tools created by external organisations and individuals collaborating with CIMR in SME-related activities.