This research provides a qualitative analysis of the efficacy of networks for entrepreneurs raising finance in the UK. The authors conducted interviews with eight entrepreneurs in North West England based on the three core components of entrepreneurial networks suggested by Hoang and Antoncic...

A definitive reference to the theory and practice of pricing across industries, environments, and methodologies. It covers all major areas of pricing including, pricing fundamentals pricing tactics, and pricing management.

It is accepted by most agencies that enterprise education is important for students and for the economy, however it is often difficult to measure the effectiveness of this education as effects can take many years to be shown. We have collected qualitative data from over 300 alumni entrepreneurs,...

The objective of the study was to define key success factors and challenges of a crowdfunding campaign for an indie games developer in the UK – We suggest that the key success factors identified can be separated into three categories- campaign factors, product factors, and human factors and...

This paper describes the formation and running of a four day residential “Enterprise School” for 35 PhD and postdoctoral students from a mix of subject areas and universities in the North West England. This paper will examine some of the initial feedback and motivations of those attending...

Since 2001, Manchester Science Enterprise Centre has been running a Masters course whereby a student brings a business idea from their own subject area and spends half the time working on developing the technology in their own department and the other half in learning business skills and...

This paper describes the measurement of entrepreneurial outcomes from a four day residential Enterprise School for Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers from a mix of subject areas held in North West England. We determine the effectiveness of the programme in terms of encouraging a range of...

Women’s entrepreneurship, whilst increasing in size and quality across the world, still lags behind in India where many of those enterprises created are low tech micro enterprises which often employ only the entrepreneur themselves. This it has been suggested is due to a variety of factors,...

Accountancy firms form an important element of a countries’ economic value, however, whilst there is considerable research into the service sector as a whole, there is little research which focuses specifically on accountancy firms themselves and how they innovate. This study used semi...