Top award for rural business resilience paper

NICRE's second SORE survey was carried out over the summer with a focus on the impact of the cost-of-doing-business crisis, alongside how firms are responding to the climate emergency, rural opportunities and the availability of skills/labour in the rural economy.

Reports will be published later this year and early next.

NICRE's Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, from ERC, was also a 'best paper' finalist in the rural enterprise track for 'Revisiting research on innovation for rural businesses: A bibliometric study'.

A paper co-authored by NICRE's Sara Maioli with Jonathan Jones from NU Business School - ‘The Motives of Inbound Foreign Direct Investors in the UK Creative Industries’ - was named 'best paper' in the research and knowledge exchange track at the conference. Sara and Jonathan are both Co-Investigators at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre led by NU alongside the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).  

The conference was held in Birmingham and focused on ‘Sustainable Growth in Unexpected Places’. It brought together more than 200 researchers and practitioners interested in small business and entrepreneurship research, policy, practice, education, support and advice.