Currently, the ILS Dortmund is recruiting interview participants in Olfen in Münsterland, Germany. We are looking to speak to self-employed workers and business owners who work mainly from home or use their home as the base for their business in Olfen. If this is you and you are interested in …
Home-based businesses have different needs than ‘traditional’ businesses in commercial premises and this is why policy makers need to know about them. The Local Economic and Employment Development Programme (LEED) in the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development at the OECD, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, is therefore …
In the course of the interviews, Cornelia has spoken to people from a broad range of different professions, including scene builders, therapists, masseuses, IT consultants, artists, office services or founders of digital enterprises. Accordingly, their home-working spaces are very heterogeneous. Some of them work just with a notebook in different …
On February 25th, Annabelle Wilkins presented her research on homeworking and coworking at a seminar hosted by the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS). The presentation took place at Cass Business School, and the audience included practitioners and academics interested in collaborative spaces, organisational studies, management and economic geography. During the …
Darja Reuschke has a new paper on city economies and microbusiness growth, published in Urban Studies (online before print): http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0042098016680520 This paper assesses the influence of city location and running a business from home on microbusiness growth, based on empirical analysis of panel firm-level data over a four-year period. The analysis …
On 16th December 2016, Annabelle Wilkins participated in the 2016 Symposium of the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS) at the emlyon campus in Paris. The symposium on Work and Workplace Transformations brought together academics and practitioners interested in work and workplace transformations, in particular at the level of collaborative …
The briefing paper shows that Home-based businesses in cities are more likely to display turnover growth and are more likely to become an employer than those in commercial premises. The majority of microbusinesses are, or have been, run from the owner’s home. It argues that measures to ease planning and …
Darja Reuschke gave a seminar on home-based businesses in regional development at the Centre for Economic Development Research (CRED) at the University of Cumbria on 24th February 2015 in Carlisle. @UoCResearch 24th February 2016: “Home-based businesses in regional development?”Speaker: Dr. Darja Reuschke https://t.co/altMgvMYfR — Prof Diane Cox (@dianecox61) February 8, …
Launch of the Microbusiness Portal on 21st January 2016 in Edinburgh at St Andrews House, Scottish Government Launch @Microbusiness15 website https://t.co/lefwPdykfb Source of research evidence for policymakers & practitioners pic.twitter.com/hZgnsT2fq0 — Maarten van Ham (@maarten_van_ham) January 22, 2016
