Anthony Impey MBE is CEO of SME support network Be the Business, and he wants to change the world. Today he slips off his super-hero cloak and joins Professor Neil Maiden to delve into the UK’s productivity problems and discuss what can be done to solve them.

Be The Business has supported an increase in SME productivity to the tune of £462 million in the UK, and in this wide ranging conversation we discuss the current challenges facing business owners; why we are now in the “Age of the Entrepreneur”; how uncertainty creates opportunities for business; and the generative AI tools that will support productivity.

Produced by Emilia Rolewicz

Executive Producer Sam Steele

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Links

Be the Business website https://www.bethebusiness.com/

Anthony Impey Twitter @Impmister

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Alice Frost, Director of Knowledge Exchange at Research England, discusses the UK’s knowledge economy and the dark art of getting innovative ideas out of higher education to create real-world impact.

How well is the UK doing in this field? Alice explains her obsession with evidence, avoiding “wifty wafty” stakeholder engagement, and how the UK’s academic research and development achievements translate into £billions of pounds for the UK economy. If you are interested in the current debate on the wholesale reform of how universities think about their spin out and licencing strategies, this podcast is for you.

Produced by Emilia Rolewicz

Executive Producer Sam Steele

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UK Research England website UK Research England (UKRI)

Alice Frost LinkedIn

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How can businesses of every size learn to embrace curiosity and creativity?

Andy Wilkins, business consultant; Honorary Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School; and co-founder of consultancy Perspectiv, discusses creativity in business with Professor Neil Maiden.

The conversation covers a wide range of issues and considers how ten years ago, industrial focus was on process improvements, which has now given way to the leadership of complexity, establishing cultures, and the delusion of self-awareness. The current business environment is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) and this podcast offers insights from two experienced guides in business and creativity.

Produced by Emilia Rolewicz

Executive Producer Sam Steele

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Links

Perspectiv website https://www.perspectiv.co.uk/

Andy Wilkins Twitter @AndrewNWilkins

Andy Wilkins LinkedIn Andy Wilkins

Course Masters in Innovation Creativity & Leadership

Book Breaking the Code of Change

Amy Edmondson Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Today’s Leaders Must Learn To Think Like Scientists

Professor Ruth Noller Creativity Equation

Paper: The Creativity Crisis

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