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Attitudes and aspirations of regional businesses

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Title: Attitudes and aspirations of regional businesses
Date submitted: 26/​03/​2010
Status: In progress
Priority: Low
Description The region’s business base includes fewer high growth businesses than other regions. The number of graduates employed within the region’s businesses is also low and isn’t increasingly significantly. These, and other, factors suggest that there are attitudinal or cultural barriers limiting the aspirations of businesses, or their ability to meet their aspirations.

At present there is relatively limited evidence about the aspirations of regional businesses and the barriers they face. Addressing this may ultimately require primary research but it might be possible to make more of existing research.

 

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Oliver Nicholls said on Fri 28 May 2010 at 12:09 pm

This gap will be re-​scoped and refined, in order that the information it provides is useful to decision makers.
Stephen Howarth said on Mon 07 Jun 2010 at 4:44 pm

Some aspects of this may be addressed through work currently being undertaken by the Observatory and others on behalf of the West Midlands Enterprise Board. Once that work is complete, we will assess the scope of any remaining gaps.

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