ENTERPRISE RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT UNIT (ERDU)
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The Enterprise Research and Development Unit (ERDU) was established in 2002 as a focus for research and development on small and medium enterprise development and entrepreneurship.
It is an innovative and grounded provider of ‘real-world’ solutions and insights to ‘real-world’ problems based on rigorous research and close involvement of stakeholders.
Thematic areas of activity and expertise include:
- Regeneration of local and regional economies in the post-recession era
- Enterprise and SME policy analysis
- Enterprise and innovation development services and support strategies
- Business start-up, incubation, pre-start and emergence
- SME and owner-manager development
- Enterprising learning and education
- Student and graduate enterprise and career development
- Rural enterprise development.
The unit is directed by David Rae, Professor of Business and Enterprise. It has a staff of researchers and project managers with a broad background in different forms of research and development activity.
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The Team
- Professor David Rae, Director of ERDU.
- Professor Andrew Atherton, Chair of ERDU.
- Professor Ted Fuller, Head of Lincoln Business School
- Liz Price, Senior Research Fellow.
- Gary Bosworth, Lecturer in Enterprise
- Dr David Gray, Senior Lecturer
- Fizza Alamdar, PhD Student
Visiting Professors
- Professor Graeme Leach: Chief Economist, Institute of Directors
- Professor Glyn Owen: Economic Development and Regeneration
Visiting Senior Fellows
- Mr Ivan Annibal: Rural Economics and Strategies
- Dr Jason Beedell: Rural Enterprise