Professor Mark Hart

Economics and Strategy Group

• Phone:+44(0)121 204 3048
• Email: mark.hart@aston.ac.uk
• Room: SW920

He jointly manages the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project in the UK and advises a number of Government Departments including BIZ, UKTI, HMT and HMRC on enterprise issues and has undertaken a number of national evaluations of business support products and services (e.g., Business Link and Regional Selective Assistance).  The GEM UK 2009 report can be found here.

• Download the GEM UK West Midlands summary for 2009
  

Research Interests

• Business Demograghy in the UK - entry, exit and survival - and economic performance (www.nesta.org.uk/, www.oecd.org)
• Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activity - individual and regional effects (www.gemconsortium.org/)
• Effectiveness of public policy for SME development (http://www.bis.gov.uk/)

Current Research Projects

Investigating the nature and scale of entreprenurial activity in the UK - co-manages the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK project:

• CRC

• BIS Media

• LCR

• Growth 

Research Themes Include

• Private sector job creation and destruction in the UK (1998-2008)

• UKTI R&D

• Small firm growth and competitiveness: key trends and drivers

• HGFs - UKTI; UKCES