Barriers to growth

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The research summary provides new evidence on the obstacles that fast-growing UK businesses say that they face. These businesses are particularly important to economic recovery: NESTA's past research has shown that they generate over half of new job growth in the UK and are disproportionately likely to be innovative.

This brief summarises the results of Nesta Working Paper 11/01 Free to grow? Assessing the obstacles faced by actual and potential high-growth firms, a research paper funded by NESTA and written by Dr Neil Lee from the Work Foundation.