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Congratulations to Saul Estrin, emeritus professor of managerial economics and strategy at LSE and associate in CEP’s growth programme, who has been elected as a new Fellow of the British Academy. He is amon... Read more...
27 July 2023
"Migrants are more likely, on average, to be self-employed and to start up companies." Max Nathan of CEP's Urban Programme interviewed for the documentary made by Wired in partnership with the Mu... Read more...
31 January 2018
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her. Imagine a person working from home. If you pictured somebody in pajam... Read more...
20 September 2017
Susanna Khavul and Saul Estrin of the Centre for Economic Performance argue that crowdfunding engages a wider pool of entrepreneurs and investors than traditional venture capital markets did. This article was published ... Read more...
30 March 2016
According to CEP's researchers writing in the latest issue of CentrePiece, its departmental magazine, crowdfunding ''serves as a robust source of alternative entrepreneurial finance which has operated in a stable and pre... Read more...
18 February 2016
Faced with the dilemma of re-industrialization Valencia Andres Rodriguez-Pose, Professor at the London School of Economics, said for his part, that the Valencian economy is currently ''very weak''. And has highlighted t... Read more...
02 December 2015
It turns out that whether in another hemisphere or right in our own backyard, entrepreneurial traits are strikingly similar ... being smart is only a start. Researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and the L... Read more...
23 November 2015
Henry Overman interviewed by Philip Salter It's easy to make policy, but it's hard to make the right ones. These are the sorts of questions the excellent What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth looks at. It recently... Read more...
25 September 2015
Consider a paper presented at the Summer Session of the National Bureau of Economic Research by Raj Chetty, Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, ''Innovation Policy and the Lifecycle of Inventors.'' (T... Read more...
10 August 2015