The wider policy and development implications of entrepreneurship research is a key focus of the Hunter Centre. Policy and development initiatives for encouraging female entrepreneurship is an area of particular expertise.

Understanding how and why some entrepreneurs manage to create innovation, and venture growth, is a key priority for policy makers and academics alike.

Building on longer-term experience the Hunter Centre is now engaged internationally in GUESSS, the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students‘ Survey.

Successful entrepreneurs need a range of management and leadership skills, including marketing, financial management and fund raising, strategic planning, and leading entrepreneurial teams.

Enterprise and diversity research focuses on those who experience entrepreneurship differently due to some form of socio-economic difference.

Entrepreneurial philanthropy is an area of special interest to us, and Eleanor Shaw is currently Principal Investigator of an ESRC-funded project exploring entrepreneurial philanthropy.

The family and the home play a crucial role in influencing entrepreneurial processes and aspirations, and are, in turn, affected by the entrepreneurship of family members.

Entrepreneurship is a relational process. It takes place largely through the interactions between people, and is embedded within networks of ties that are as much social as economic.