Globally competitive business environment - 2003 to 2011 reports

The reports listed below contain evidence on the environment for business offered by the UK, in particular whether it enables the start-up of new businesses and growth of existing ones. They include evidence on the ease of accessing finance and business support, the impact of the regulatory and legal framework and the impact this has on such factors as the ease of start up, research and development, training and innovation within business.

2011

• Job Creation and Destruction in the UK - 1998-2010 (PDF, 490 Kb) 
• Research to understand the barriers to take up and use of business support (PDF, 900 Kb)  and underlying data (XLSX, 609 Kb) 
• Review of Capital for Enterprise (PDF, 404 Kb) 
• BIS equity finance programmes qualitative reviews of: a) UKHTF and b) the Bridges Fund (PDF, 835 Kb) 
• BIS equity finance schemes: survey of fund investors (PDF, 657 Kb) 
• Annual report on the business angel market in the United Kingdom 2009/10 (PDF, 505 Kb) 
• Access to finance for creative industry businesses (PDF, 167 Kb)  
• Access to finance for creative industry businesses. Appendix 1: econometric analysis from the UK survey of SME finances (PDF, 1.0 Mb)  
• Access to finance for creative industry businesses - Appendix 1 data - Excel spreadsheet (csv format) (CSV, 61 Kb)  
• Access to finance for creative industry businesses. Appendix 2: qualitative survey (PDF, 258 Kb) 
• Access to finance for creative industry businesses - Appendix 2 data - Excel spreadsheet (csv format) (CSV, 3 Kb) 
• Impact of Media on Entrepreneurial Intentions and Actions (PDF, 524 Kb)  
• Research into Business Support's Online and Offline Channels of Delivery (PDF, 1.7 Mb) 

2010

• Improving the coherence, coordination and consistency of publicly-backed national and regional venture capital provision (PDF, 1.1 Mb) 
• Solutions for Business - Cross-product monitoring survey (PDF, 853 Kb) 
• Early assessment of the impact of BIS Equity Fund initiatives (PDF, 500 Kb) 
• (PDF, 678 Kb)  Annual Report on the Business Angel market in the United Kingdom: 2008/09 
• RVCF and EGF interim evaluation: recipient business and stakeholder surveys. Summary paper (DOC, 589KB) (DOC, 581 Kb)  
• Economic evaluation of the small firms loan guarantee (SFLG) scheme (DOC, 928KB)
• Results from the 2009 finance survey of SMEs (PDF, 469 Kb) 
• Results from the 2009 finance survey of mid-cap businesses (PDF, 808 Kb) 
• Small firms loan guarantee (SFLG) scheme recipient and comparison group survey results (DOC, 2897KB)
• Follow-Up Research into Mid-Cap Businesses having difficulty raising Bank Finance (PDF, 263 Kb) 
• Results from the 2010 Finance Survey of Mid-cap Businesses (PDF, 366 Kb) 

2009

• Early stage assessment of the impact of the enterprise finance guarantee (EFG) on recipient firms (DOC, 1344KB)
• RVCF and EGF interim evaluation: qualitative research paper (DOC, 684KB)
• The supply of equity finance to SMEs: revisiting the 'equity gap' (DOC, 2359KB)
• SMEs in a low carbon economy (DOC, 1153KB)
• Growth challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises: a UK-US comparative study (DOC, 755KB)
• Business Link: research into drivers of perceptions of Business Link (PDF, 7320KB)
• Early assessment of Business Link health checks (DOC, 946KB)
• Mystery shopping the early stages of the Business Link service (DOC, 946KB)

2001-2008

2001-2008 reports can be found at the National Archives website.

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