CREME Director Prof Monder Ram will be involved as a co-investigator in a prestigious new ESRC project which was awarded to two research centres at Newcastle University: the Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise (KITE) and the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS).
The 28-month long project will be overseen by Dr Simon Down (KITE), Dr Paul Richter (KITE) and Dr Jane Pollard (CURDS) and will compare firms in the North East and Cambridgeshire in the bio-processing, film and media and security sectors and intensively track a small number of firms to get a close-up picture.
Dr Simon Down, the principal investigator, explains:" Whilst we know that all entrepreneurs complain about the excessive burden of red tape, very little is known about how they really deal with it in everyday life. To ensure that government gets the extent and forms of regulation right, without unduly harming the development of small businesses, better knowledge is required. It’s all well and good simply saying reduce the regulatory burden, but as we have seen in recent years, too light a regulatory touch isn’t necessarily in everyone's best interest".
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