Investigation Into Difficulties Affecting The Growth Of SMEs”
Discipline: Business
Type of service: Research Paper
Spacing: Single spacing
Paper format: Harvard
Number of pages: 9 pages
Number of sources: 20 sources
Paper details
Dissertation Brief
Topic: Investigation Into Difficulties Affecting The Growth Of SMEs”
Please add and read the followings for your thesis:
1) Definitions of SMEs, please look at and report the EU SMEs definitions (micro, small and macro) in terms of the employees, turnover, balance sheet and maximum % owned by other firms which are large enterprises.
2) Evidence (research failures and newspapers articles) on why SMEs fail?
3) Competitive advantage and SMEs: Flexibility, quality of service, production efficiency, and low overhead costs, production development, and innovation
4) Problems facing small businesses: Selling and marketing, funding R&D, management skills, and economics of scale.
5) Please include data and information from:
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN06152
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/small-business-survey-reports
6) The role and importance of the entrepreneur:
Please look at the reports and data and include them in your thesis:
https://www.gemconsortium.org/
Explain what is entrepreneurship, total entrepreneurship activity and the UK, government economic strategy, etc.
7) Attitudes towards entrepreneurship in the UK: please report some data from the surveys or polls such as from
https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/attitudes-towards-entrepreneurship
(Look at 2014 carefully)
https://www.gemconsortium.org/country-profile/121
8) For government support:
– The role of the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on grants, support and opportunities to small firms; business mentorship.
– Business Bank
– The ‘smart’ scheme to help small firms
– The Business Growth Service
– In the Budget 2016 and the Chancellor announced a permanent increase in the threshold for small business rate relief from 6000GBP to a maximum of 15000. Please search for articles for that
9) EU support and their role, and their objectives: the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) programme;
Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASMA)
10) Compare UK with the US about the business start-ups: why UK is behind the US?
11) Put some examples from the success stories: the Dyson dual cyclone vacuum cleaner
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6217291.stm
https://champions-speakers.co.uk/news/sir-james-dyson-become-best/
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/sir-james-dyson-things-suction-king/story?id=19985903
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201203/burt-helm/how-i-did-it-james-dyson.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19515485
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/03/james-dyson-record-profits-bladeless-fans
https://www.economist.com/special-report/2007/02/01/suck-it-and-see
http://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/james-dyson-on-5-126-vacuums-that-didnt-work-and-1-that-did.html
- You can choose other examples like this and connect it to your information about the comparative advantages and difficulties that SMEs face.
- Add valid Literature Review
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