Explore the ScaleUp Annual Review 2021
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CONTENTS
Introduction 2021
Chapter 1 2021
The ScaleUp Business Landscape
Scaleup indicators from a national and local perspective
The Scaling Pipeline
2021 Scaleup Leaders’ Views
2021 ScaleUp Survey – at a glance
Scaleup Survey 2021
Access to markets
Talent and skills
Access to finance
Leadership
– Insight:Scaling Perspectives: Diverse Scaleup Leaders
– Insight: Scaling Perspectives: Sectors
Looking forward
Chapter 2 2021
Leading Programmes Breaking Down the Barriers for Scaleups
Leading Programmes Breaking Down the Barriers for Scaleups
Access to Talent and skills
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Leadership
– Insight: The Power of Peer Groups
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Access to Markets
– Insight: Accelerating innovation and collaboration
– Insight Corporate collaboration checklist
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Finance
– Insight: In Conversation with Catherine Lewis La Torre, CEO, British Business Bank
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Infrastructure
– Insight: Building the UK as a Life Sciences Superpower
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Chapter 3 2021
The Local Scaleup Ecosystem
Location, Location, Location
New Anglia
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Coast to Capital
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
D2N2
Greater Birmingham and Solihull
– Insight: Driving Investment and Growth in Creative Industries
Greater Manchester
Alliance Manchester Business School
Heart of the South West
Inspire Elite (One to Watch)
Lancashire
Leeds City Region
Liverpool City Region
North East
Entrepreneurs’ Forum: ScaleUp Leaders’ Academy (One to Watch)
Northern Ireland
Oxfordshire
Scotland
South East
Thames Valley Berkshire
Worcestershire
Chapter 4 2021
The Policy Landscape
Policy Overview – Delivering Policy to Foster and Sustain UK Scaleups
Scaleup Identification – Data
Talent and skills – Policy Overview
– Insight: The ScaleUp Visa: From Seven Years to 72 Hours
Markets – Policy Overview – Access to Markets
ScaleUp Procurement Index
– Insight: Tales from Two Cities
Finance – Policy Overview – Access to growth capital
– Insight: Growth Capital: one year on from the Future of Growth Capital report
– Insight: Resolving regional funding disparities
Leadership – Policy Overview – Leadership remains central to scaleup growth
– Insight: Innovate UK and the Innovation Strategy
– Insight: Supporting Scaling Businesses – The journey since 2014
Infrastructure – Policy Overview – Driving growth through the power of clusters and hubs
– Insight: Scaleup Safari
2020 Recommendation Progress
Chapter 5 2021
Looking forward
Annexes 2021
Scaleup Stories 2021
CONTENTS
Introduction 2021
Chapter 1 2021
The ScaleUp Business Landscape
Scaleup indicators from a national and local perspective
The Scaling Pipeline
2021 Scaleup Leaders’ Views
2021 ScaleUp Survey – at a glance
Scaleup Survey 2021
Access to markets
Talent and skills
Access to finance
Leadership
– Insight:Scaling Perspectives: Diverse Scaleup Leaders
– Insight: Scaling Perspectives: Sectors
Looking forward
Chapter 2 2021
Leading Programmes Breaking Down the Barriers for Scaleups
Leading Programmes Breaking Down the Barriers for Scaleups
Access to Talent and skills
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Leadership
– Insight: The Power of Peer Groups
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Access to Markets
– Insight: Accelerating innovation and collaboration
– Insight Corporate collaboration checklist
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Finance
– Insight: In Conversation with Catherine Lewis La Torre, CEO, British Business Bank
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Infrastructure
– Insight: Building the UK as a Life Sciences Superpower
– Programmes Endorsed & Ones to Watch
Chapter 3 2021
The Local Scaleup Ecosystem
Location, Location, Location
New Anglia
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Coast to Capital
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
D2N2
Greater Birmingham and Solihull
– Insight: Driving Investment and Growth in Creative Industries
Greater Manchester
Alliance Manchester Business School
Heart of the South West
Inspire Elite (One to Watch)
Lancashire
Leeds City Region
Liverpool City Region
North East
Entrepreneurs’ Forum: ScaleUp Leaders’ Academy (One to Watch)
Northern Ireland
Oxfordshire
Scotland
South East
Thames Valley Berkshire
Worcestershire
Chapter 4 2021
The Policy Landscape
Policy Overview – Delivering Policy to Foster and Sustain UK Scaleups
Scaleup Identification – Data
Talent and skills – Policy Overview
– Insight: The ScaleUp Visa: From Seven Years to 72 Hours
Markets – Policy Overview – Access to Markets
ScaleUp Procurement Index
– Insight: Tales from Two Cities
Finance – Policy Overview – Access to growth capital
– Insight: Growth Capital: one year on from the Future of Growth Capital report
– Insight: Resolving regional funding disparities
Leadership – Policy Overview – Leadership remains central to scaleup growth
– Insight: Innovate UK and the Innovation Strategy
– Insight: Supporting Scaling Businesses – The journey since 2014
Infrastructure – Policy Overview – Driving growth through the power of clusters and hubs
– Insight: Scaleup Safari
2020 Recommendation Progress
Chapter 5 2021
Looking forward
Annexes 2021
Scaleup Stories 2021
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