Innovative and impactful: Centre for Enterprise reaches final for ‘Outstanding Support for Small Business’ in the upcoming Small Business Charter Excellence Awards
Manchester Metropolitan University’s Centre for Enterprise has reached the final of the prestigious Small Business Charter (SBC) Excellence Awards 2024. It is one of only four business schools from across the UK and Ireland to be selected for the Outstanding Support for Small Business category.
The annual SBC Excellence Awards celebrate the exceptional achievements of Small Business Charter-accredited business schools across the UK and Ireland. Currently, there are 67 SBC-accredited business schools.
The SBC’s Outstanding Support for Small Business award recognises the most innovative and impactful initiative provided to support small business growth, during 2022/2023.
As part of the selection process, judges expect the finalists to have made a significant impact at a regional level, to implement business support initiatives that create collaborative environments, and demonstrate innovative ways to exchange knowledge between academic teams and local businesses.
Manchester Metropolitan’s Centre for Enterprise (CfE) is an innovation, leadership, and growth knowledge exchange specialist centre. Over the last 12 years, the team has been awarded £40million in funding, enabling CfE’s specialists to work with 2,500 regional small businesses. The successful collaboration has seen small business owners create 550 jobs across Greater Manchester and the wider North West.
Working with businesses from start-ups to established, larger firms, CfE’s aim is to transform small business success in the North West through university research and expertise, particularly around technology adoption and diffusion. Access to technology can be possible for small firms, but the often-forgotten business skills to lead, embed, upskill and adopt that technology means that businesses aren’t achieving their growth potential.
The SBC Excellence Awards will take place on 18 June at a ceremony in London.
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