Research Reports

Business & Innovation Research Reports, authored by Marcus Gibson, 2020-2002:

May 2020: ‘Britain’s Export Boom: and how to encourage it..’ – Report for Westminster think-tank Civitas:

In the years after the Brexit Referendum decision the UK’s SMEs produced the largest increase in exports in Britain’s history, the ‘Brexit Boom’. “Incontrovertibly, Brexit is already a huge economic success,” said Marcus Gibson. “The strongest evidence behind the growing strength of the post-Brexit economy has been the extraordinary rise in the UK’s export volumes – much of it pioneered by the UK’s unequalled collection of SMEs. They frequently design, manufacture and market high quality, niche products.”
www.civitas.org.uk/publications/britains-export-boom

2019: Dept of Business – List of 200+ top UK firms with Covid-related Products/Services

2014: Shell UK Technology Centre – Top 150 UK SMEs of interest to oil & gas industry.

2014: Atlas Elektronik Ltd – research into UK SMEs of interest to sub-sea/marine sector.

Oct 2014: ‘Bringing Manufacturing Back’ – report for Civitas – Is the tide of offshoring beginning to turn towards reshoring?

Exhaustive, original research among UK SMEs led Marcus Gibson to conclude that only a tiny part of current production in China will be returned to the UK during the next five to ten years – contrary to the hopes of the Government of Prime Minister David Cameron.
www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/BringingManufacturingBack.pdf

2014: Speech to Royal Society/Higher Education Forum – ‘The UK Disaster..’

2014: McLaren Technologies – Scope for links with innovative SMEs in UK

2013: Joint BIS-Treasury inquiry into high potential UK technologies

Earlier Reports/Studies:

1996: ‘Whither NZ?’: Report for Bank of New Zealand into the options and future technologies/sectors which New Zealand should adopt in future. 1-2-1 interviews with top 50+ innovation/enterprise figures in NZ, including Sir Tipene O’Regan, and Sir Peter Blake. Report was highly influential.

2006: ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicles sector in the UK’, SMEs and experts, QinetiQ plc.

2005: ‘Magnetic Technologies sector in the UK and western Europe’, QinetiQ plc.

2004: Report on UK Inventors and Innovation, research, interviews, NESTA.

2003: Report: ‘Universities and the Creative Industries’, Universities UK.

2002: ‘Academic Enterprise in the UK’: report into academic innovation and spinout companies; for Universities UK, the national association for British Universities.