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      <title>ERC - The State of Small Business Britain 2022: From Crisis to Crisis</title>
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      <description>&lt;h5 class="postDate"&gt;Published: 20 December 2022&lt;/h5&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The State of Small Business Britain report is the Enterprise Research Centre&#8217;s annual review of trends and issues affecting small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. The report draws together and summarises several different strands of the Centre&#8217;s research to give a picture of the landscape for the UK&#8217;s SMEs in 2022.&lt;br /&gt;2022 has been another extremely challenging year for the UK&#8217;s SMEs. Many have spent the year dealing with a range of after-effects associated with the pandemic, whilst also facing Brexit impacts, rising energy prices and sharp increases in the cost of doing business.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:12:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>University of Warwick to be involved in new &#163;32m Productivity Institute</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;University of Warwick is pleased to be involved in a major new research institute funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which will focus on how to make the UK economy more productive. The new &#163;32m Productivity Institute is being hosted by the Alliance Manchester Business School at Manchester University for five years, starting from 1st September 2020.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The University of Manchester will partner with eight other institutions across the country to help policy and business leaders across the UK understand how to improve productivity and living standards as the economy begins to recover from the impact of Covid-19.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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