Unlocking Growth Reports
Our Unlocking Growth reports are in-depth studies across topics and industries to inform and inspire you as a founder.
Read about tech ecosystems, international expansion, investment trends and more – all aimed at helping you navigate the complexities and challenges of business growth.
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Exploring the UK's tech skills and entrepreneurship
We’ve conducted a thorough review of the UK’s skills and hiring trends, taking into account desirable skills that companies now look for, to suit current vacancies. Training and development opportunities are also evaluated, with a view towards closing the digital skills gap.
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Exploring the UK’s growth infrastructure potential
We’ve examined the current state of the UK’s growth infrastructure, exploring the availability of office and laboratory spaces. As well as compute: hardware, software and data systems in addition to energy infrastructure.
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Unlocking Investment – Insights into high-growth companies
We’ve carried out a review of investment trends into high-growth companies within the UK, considering equity investment and its regional distribution, prominent investors and support for diverse founders.
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Tech in the UK 2023 – Innovation Nation
We’ve conducted a nationwide survey on high-growth companies within the UK and have analysed our findings against regional data on the performance of key regions within the ecosystem.
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Neurodiverse Founders
Our ninth in a series of thought leadership reports, Exploring the views of neurodiverse founders, has been published in partnership with The Entrepreneurs Network and funded by the UK Government.
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Impact, environmental and social signals in startups and scaleups
We’ve carried out a deep dive into impact driven companies across the UK and the key components that constitute towards ‘impact investing’.
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Unlocking the UK’s tech talent potential
We’ve conducted a thorough review of how businesses within the UK tech sector, go about hiring the right individuals, with the correct skillsets for their organisations.
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Exploring the UK’s engineering biology companies
We’ve unpacked the detail behind UK’s Engineering Biology subsector as well as the key components that successful businesses need in order to thrive.
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Unlocking access to ecosystems
We’ve conducted a review of the UK’s high-growth ecosystems, delving into regional trends, inputs from local authorities, company lifecycles and more.
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Understanding the UK's high-growth artificial intelligence companies
We’ve reviewed the key factors that contribute towards the UK being a leading hub of innovation in the industry.
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A review of the UK's semiconductor clusters
We’ve taken a deep dive into the specific sectors, that the UK’s 79 active high-growth semiconductor companies operate within.
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Unlocking Investment: Trends for high-growth companies, H1 2023
We’ve reviewed key investment insights and trends for high-growth companies within the UK, across H1 2023.
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Decrypting the UK’s high-growth quantum technology companies
We’ve taken a deep dive into UK’s quantum sector, regional distribution of high-growth businesses across the country and key metrics related to funding.
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Unlocking Potential: Closing the innovation gap in UK EnergyTech
Our expert driven report explores the opportunities and challenges within the energy sector and how fostering the right environment can facilitate innovation and the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Unlocking potential: Educational roots of tech founders
We've taken a closer look at the educational background of tech founders to get a better understanding of the talent coming out of UK academia.
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Unlocking Growth: A view from the Black Founders’ tech community
Six past and present founders from the Barclays Black Founder Accelerator programme gave us their insight into the highs and lows of being a startup tech founder in the UK today.
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How AgriTech is key to reaching net zero food production
Insight and opportunities for UK startups and scaleups.
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Unlocking Growth: The age of AgeTech
Insight and opportunities for UK startups and scaleups
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Unlocking Growth: Creating Tech Ecosystems to Stimulate Local Economies
New Insights for Local Ecosystems.
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Unlocking Growth: Your Introduction to Funding
The funding landscape can be difficult to navigate so we’ve pulled together this report as an introduction to funding and the options available.
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Unlocking Growth: Going Global
Insights to help startups and scaleups take on the world.