Small Business Charter schools - Driving Productivity in Micro-businesses

特许商学院协会（CABS）领导了一个由15所持有《小企业宪章》的商学院组成的联盟，开展了一项旨在提高微型企业生产率的试验。这一国家方案将包括一系列地区（伦敦和东南部；东米德兰兹和西米德兰兹；南约克郡；大曼彻斯特和东北部）和微型企业一般人群中的各种企业主（例如，非英国出生的企业家、少数民族企业家、妇女领导的企业）。由于目前的气候，该计划的随机对照试验已被放弃。我们重新调整了项目的重点，为促进微型企业成长提供支持，并获得有关疫情对小型企业界影响的宝贵见解。我们包括5个关键领域进行评估：评估英国微型企业部门的弹性，确定对危机的有效战略反应，了解在价值链/供应链中的位置的影响，确定业务支持的关键模型，最后确定原始试验设计的方面，如果我们在未来继续进行，可以改进。我们的目标是有277家企业得到常驻企业家专家的支持，这15所商学院都在与之合作。

Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) lead a consortium of 15 Business Schools, who all hold the Small Business Charter, to conduct a trial designed to improve productivity in micro-businesses. This national programme will include a range of regions (London and the South East; East and West Midlands; South Yorkshire; Greater Manchester and the North East) and a diverse set of business owners within the general population of micro-businesses (e.g., non-UK-born entrepreneurs, ethnic minority entrepreneurs, women-led businesses).The planned RCT trial for the programme has been abandoned due to the current climate. We have refocused the project to offer support to the Leading to Grow micro-businesses and gain valuable insight of the effects of the pandemic on the small business community. We are including 5 key areas to evaluate: Assessing the resilience of the micro-business sector in the UK, identifying effective strategic responses to the crisis, understanding the impact of position in value chain/supply chains, identifying critical models of business support and finally identifying aspects of the original trial design that could be improved should we continue in the future.We have a target number of 277 businesses to receive support from specialist Entrepreneur’s in Residence that each of the 15 businesses schools are working with.