{"id":80045,"date":"2017-03-27T14:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=22cbee06213b8717b748a645f8f6b98c"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:56:25","slug":"news-story-margot-james-launches-scale-up-taskforce-to-identify-barriers-to-small-business-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80045","title":{"rendered":"News story: Margot James launches Scale-Up Taskforce to identify barriers to small business growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>Launched as part of the Industrial Strategy, the Scale-Up Taskforce aims to increase the number of businesses expanding their operations<\/li>\n<li>The focus will be on helping high-growth businesses to reach their full potential both at home and overseas<\/li>\n<li>The taskforce will look at barriers to small business growth across different regions and sectors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>On 21 March, Scale-Up Champion Margot James chaired the first meeting of a taskforce to help assess the barriers to growth facing UK businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The Scale-Up Taskforce, which brings together entrepreneurs, investors and local bodies from across the country, was announced as part of the government\u2019s commitment to a modern Industrial Strategy that helps small businesses thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Sahar Hashemi, entrepreneur and founder of leading coffee chain Coffee Republic, will co-chair the regular taskforce meetings alongside Small Business Minister Margot James.<\/p>\n<p>A \u2018scale-up\u2019 is an enterprise that is experiencing significant growth rates in employees and turnover, over a number of years. By examining scale-ups, the taskforce\u2019s aim is to increase the number of businesses maximising opportunities available to achieve their full growth potential, which will in turn feed into the government\u2019s Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Small Business Minister Margot James said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This government is committed to ensuring the UK remains the best place in the world to start and grow a business. That means identifying and then helping those high-growth businesses to scale-up, go global and invest in their future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I want to thank all the entrepreneurs and investors for coming along to the first Scale-Up Taskforce armed with ideas and enthusiasm, which I know will play an important role in building a modern Industrial Strategy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Scale-Up Taskforce Co-Chair and entrepreneur Sahar Hashemi said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We are already a start-up nation and now the opportunity is to become a scale-up nation \u2013 by removing the barriers and creating an ecosystem to enable the entrepreneurs who had the grit and determination to start a business to capitalise on opportunities this new global networked world brings and grow their businesses to scale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Scale-Up Taskforce will complement the new Entrepreneurship Review led by Professor Tim Dafforn, which will examine the entrepreneurial journey from starting-up to the point of scale-up, and the Patient Capital Review led by Damon Buffini.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scale-Up Champion Margot James chaired the first meeting of a taskforce to help assess the barriers to growth facing UK businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}