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
- Blogs
- 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 Research in Focus curated blogs:
- Entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion (20 April 2021)
- Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic (17 May 2021)
- The economic and ethical implications of digital technologies (7 June 2021)
- Research and industrial policy for the 21st Century (8 July 2021)
- Creating entrepreneurial universities (12 August 2021)
- Entrepreneurship at CIMR (7 September 2021)
- Evaluating public policy (8 October 2021)
- Creating better outcomes for society (3 November 2021)
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.
- 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.