RAKE 2018 Awards

ISBE Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) Fund 2018 Awards

The Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Research and Knowledge Exchange (RAKE) fund is an initiative supported by and administered through ISBE.  This initiative aims to encourage and support research activities from academics, third sector organisations, consultants and practitioners with the ambition of drawing together and generating an entrepreneurial community of practice to facilitate knowledge exchange and transfer. We are please to fund the following two research projects for 2018.

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Dr Jane Glover, Birmingham Business School and Dr Anne Touboulic, Nottingham University Business School with “Using and evaluating different forms of engaged scholarship to explore emotional sense-making in small firms”

Dr Nicola Patterson, Newcastle University Business School, Dinah Bennett, International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise and Colin Bell, North East Local Enterprise Partnership with “Developing a collaborative space to challenge gendered structural issues in entrepreneuring in the North East of England”.

Click here to download the final project report.

We offer our congratulations to the teams involved and wish them every success with these initiatives.