Growing innovative firms
Innovative firms are major contributors to productivity, employment and economic growth.
In particular, young firms have an important role in driving innovation, both directly through their own activities and indirectly through their interaction with established firms.
The capacity of fast-moving new firms to undertake small-scale experimentation and innovation allows new ideas and ways of working to be tested.
But the UK is perceived to have few firms that started small and grew rapidly into world-class corporations. Is this actually true? Does it really matter? Why is that? And what can or should policy do about it?
Read our policy and research publications below or view the research our Investments team is doing in this area.
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Related policy work
Policy work in the field of finance and growth.
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Current research
Work in progress in the field of finance and growth.