In opposition, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out her ambition to make Britain “the best place to start and grow a business.”
However, while the UK excels at helping companies get off the ground, they too often struggle when it comes to scaling up. It can take almost twice as long for UK firms to make the critical shift from £10 million in revenue to £100 million as it does for their US counterparts.
Over the coming decade, the economy stands to lose out on billions of investment and substantial growth opportunities as high-potential firms are pushed to relocate abroad – unless the government acts to address these barriers.
A Mountain to Scale, the latest report from The Future Governance Forum (FGF) in partnership with BVCA and Boardwave, sets out how Government can unlock greater investment and transform start-up potential into scale-up success—driving growth across the whole economy.
Join us online on Thursday 12th December at 12:00 to launch the report. Alongside its author Charlotte Holloway, Policy Associate at FGF, we’ll be joined by speakers including:
- Kanishka Narayan, Labour MP for the Vale of Glamorgan
- Phill Robinson, CEO, Boardwave
- Karim Palant, Director of External Affairs, BVCA
- Anna Gross, Political correspondent, Financial Times (Chair)
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