Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Why does growth stall in high-growth potential, second-stage companies, and can we intervene to overcome this? This research seeks to address why growth rates so often peter out in adolescent firms, and why so few make it to “grownup” status. The experimental trial will also seek to identify and test specific policy interventions to reinvigorate growth in these situations. The project will have three phases. In the first phase, a new theory on why growth stalls in high-growth potential, second-stage companies will be developed through inductive investigation in a series of interviews and ethnography. In the second phase the robustness of the ideas developed in phase one will be tested empirically. The last phase will consist of a RCT, based on the robust evidence from the first two research phases, designed to test an approach to overcome the growth barriers.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.innovationgrowthlab.org/projects/what-about-smes-investigating-growth-patterns-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The last phase will consist of a RCT, based on the robust evidence from the first two research phases, designed to test an approach to overcome the growth barriers. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Regele, M., Canales, R. (forthcoming). 'What about SMEs? Investigating Growth Patterns in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
