Expert survey
The GEM UK expert survey
The expert survey is a vital part of the overall GEM project. We talk to around 60 individuals a year with an expertise in entrepreneurship – entrepreneurs themselves, educators, business support advisors, financiers, accountants and lawyers, academics and policy makers. They tell us about where the gaps in entrepreneurial support are, and where the strengths and weaknesses of the UK economy are for supporting entrepreneurial activity. Their views, combined with the data that we collect from the main adult population survey, make sure that the policy recommendations from GEM UK are relevant and practice-based.
We run events for our experts to provoke debate around entrepreneurship policy and engage our experts in in-depth interviews, focus groups and attitudinal surveys. The experts are central to the success of GEM and we aim to build a community around their expertise to keep the GEM UK survey as relevant and useful as is possible.
Become an expert!
You can be an expert if you are one of the following:
- An entrepreneur or social entrepreneur
- An educator at any level
- A financier with a focus on start-ups and early stage entrepreneurial growth
- A technology specialist (tech transfer officer, academic scientist)
- A policy maker from any national, regional or local administration
- An academic
- Involved with any kind of action group to support specific groups of entrepreneurs
- Involved with entrepreneurial support in any other way
What being an expert involves
Becoming an expert means giving us an hour or so of your time to tell us about your experiences in supporting, promoting or doing entrepreneurship. We ask you to fill in a short attitudinal survey questionnaire and we arrange a telephone or face-to-face meeting with you to ask about the strengths and weaknesses of the UK's entrepreneurship structures. These views are fed into the report.
The views of experts are vital in obtaining an accurate picture of entrepreneurship as it is practiced on a daily basis. Becoming an expert involves approximately one hour of your valuable time to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the UK's entrepreneurial structures, and to complete a questionnaire. The expert survey provides insights that the larger adult population survey cannot, and, as a result of this, is instrumental in the process of making policy recommendations.
In addition to having a direct input into the report, we invite you to launches and send you copies of our reports as they appear throughout the year. During 2005 we will be starting a series of focus groups, workshops and seminars to discuss entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial issues as they arise. You will become part of the GEM UK expert network which we aim to build into a core community of leading edge thinkers on issues of entrepreneurship in the UK.
If you are interested in becoming an expert, please contact Rebecca Harding at rharding@london.edu or +44 (0)20 7000 7000 ext. 3526.
