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This report explores solutions to motivate SMEs to identify and invest in specific activities that will improve the productivity of their business and local economies.

Key points covered in this report: Identifies different types of SME exporters and non-exporters. Explores the common motivations that prompt companies to consider exporting. The

How should local and national governments intervene to help businesses improve their productivity? And what can those businesses do to help themselves? Policy interventions and strategies should be designed

Research has examined the role of an entrepreneur to try and identify common features of leaders of growth firms and to understand whether these features

Changes to the approaches for selecting SMEs with high growth potential and delivering support need to be considered together as part of a coherent delivery

Scale-ups form a small but extremely important proportion of all small firms and their rapid rate of growth means that they typically face multiple challenges