Medium enterprise research challenges policy-makers

Having trailed M Institute's research on these pages for some weeks now, some of you may well be wondering where they could read this research. Well, wonder no more, as Jyoti Banerjee explains.

Today M Institute announces its first research report, Empowering Medium Enterprise: A guide to policy-makers. Though aimed at government in the first instance, I think it should be accessible to anybody who has an involvement in the medium enterprise segment: business leaders, opinion formers, consultants, and the like.

For me, the report does two things. It lays out a case why medium organisations are different from both small and large enterprises. This is important because medium is often banded together with small in the SME definition. Such an approach is crazy because medium has more in common with large than it does small.

Secondly, it identifies a number of policy areas where unhelpful market conditions or policy stances impair the tremendous growth performance of medium organisations. Nobody, least of all M Institute, is seeking government intervention where it is not needed. Which is why the areas that are identified as needing some attention, such as access to finance, regulation and regional development, need to be considered all the more seriously.

You can find the report's web pages here.

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