Professor Stephen Roper

Career

Stephen Roper’s main research interests are in innovation, enterprise growth and development, regional development, and industrial policy evaluation. He is Director of the ESRC-funded Enterprise Research Centre which conducts policy relevant research on SME growth and development and a Co-Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise. Stephen has consulted on aspects of innovation and enterprise policy for a wide range of government agencies and the OECD.

Research projects

• How will the COVID-19 crisis impact finance, investment, innovation and productivity in UK firms? How effective have government supports been in offsetting the effects of the crisis?
• Innovation, internationalisation and productivity

Research output

• Raising innovation and productivity through local business knowledge sharing
• The Productivity Agenda
• Of chickens and eggs: Exporting, innovation novelty and productivity
• Understanding productivity: Organisational Capital perspectives
• COVID-19 business support and SME productivity in the UK