CREME launches new website www.creme-dmu.org.uk
CREME is delighted to announce the launch of its new website. Please visit the website at http://www.creme-dmu.org.uk The Centre’s blog has been integrated into the new site and all posts can be found in the Articles section. All future blog articles will be posted on the new site. Keep up to date with CREME’s activities … Continue reading
Emerging findings from the S2P project: Barriers faced by Leicester businesses when bidding for public sector contracts
Over the past few weeks on the Selling to the Public Sector project (S2P), we have carried out an additional three interviews for the case studies we are developing at CREME and have been involved in several project meetings and one networking event aimed at Leicester based businesses. In relation to the case studies, we … Continue reading
Dinner with the BCABA
What’s the future of business support for ethnic minority firms? ‘Bleak’ is probably a fair answer given the coalition government’s effective retreat from publicly funded business support. The Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) will shortly publish research that will give a more rounded account of business support in the new era of … Continue reading
Professor Monder Ram reports back from his visit to Sweden
Becoming self-employed is a common means of survival, if not integration, for migrants in a number of European countries. Migrants often start their own businesses at a faster rate than their indigenous counterparts. For many, this is out of sheer necessity rather than any particular flare for enterprise. However, a more positive opportunity-seeking motivation is … Continue reading
Selling to the Public Sector Project holds its First Seminar aimed at Social Enterprises
‘Selling to the public sector’[1] project held its latest seminar entitled ‘how to win public sector contracts’ for Leicestershire based social enterprises at Leicester City Phoenix Studio on May 11th, 2011. Four social enterprises’ senior managers and Leicester City Council project coordinators attended the seminar. Two consultants with the professional background of SMEs expertise and … Continue reading
Leading Experts discuss Access to Finance by SMEs
Access to finance by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and its impact on the country’s prosperity is one of the longest running national debates in the UK. Three leading experts in the field came together at a seminar hosted by De Montfort University on 4th May 2011 to review path-breaking research over the past decade … Continue reading
Industrial relations expert appointed as visiting professor at university
De Montfort University (DMU) has appointed a leading industrial relations expert as a visiting professor to develop its work on migrant businesses. Professor Paul Edwards joins the Centre for Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME) team of highly respected academics, based at the university’s Leicester Business School, whose research focuses on diversity and enterprise. Professor Edwards researched … Continue reading
Boost your business with DMU seminar on SME access to finance
A seminar hosted by De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester on 4 May will help SMEs to identify greater access to finance. A leading small business finance researcher and one of Barclays Bank’s top small business economists will be among the guest speakers at ‘SME access to finance in the UK: What has research contributed … Continue reading
CREME’s case study strategy with SMEs bidding for public sector contracts in Leicester – Any suggestions?
CREME is currently working on the Selling to the Public Sector project, as discussed in previous posts on this blog[1]. The Project will support SMEs across Leicester and Leicestershire, specifically targeting female, disabled and BME owned SMEs in Leicester’s disadvantaged areas, to access procurement and supply chain contracts from public and private sector buyers. The … Continue reading
EDA: Making Enterprise and Diversity a way of Doing Business
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the key to economic growth: a loud refrain heard from all quarters in the UK these days. A little less loud, but significant nonetheless, is an understanding amongst policy makers and practitioners of the importance of enterprise diversity, if the country is to fully grasp the opportunities for growth … Continue reading
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