Mark Hart is the Academic Lead of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme in the UK who is Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship in Aston Business School.  He is also Deputy Director of the national Enterprise Research Centre (www.enterpriseresearch.co.uk)  which is jointly hosted at Aston University and the University of Warwick which addresses issues of small business growth.  It is funded jointly by the ESRC, BEIS, British Business Bank, Intellectual Property Office and Innovate UK.   

Over the last 40 years, Professor Hart has worked and published extensively in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise and small business development and policy.  He jointly manages the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project  in the UK and advises a number of UK Government Departments and the Devolved Administrations on enterprise issues. 

His work on High-Growth Firms (HGFs) at Aston has been influential in shaping policy discussions and actions in the UK and he is currently working for NESTA and the OECD on a  range of follow-up projects.  He has undertaken numerous evaluation studies of business support products and services in the UK and Ireland.

• SMEs; Business Demography, Growth and Productivity in the UK; Job Creation and Destruction; High-Growth and Fast-Growing Firms (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk)
• Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activity - individual and regional effects (www.gemconsortium.org/)
• Effectiveness of public policy for SME development (http://www.bis.gov.uk/)

• BEM903, Entrepreneurs for the World
• BS3353, IBE/EAM Final Year Project
• BS3357, Entrepreneurial Management
• BSM911, Entrepreneurial Strategies
• DISS1, Dissertation Part 1
• DISS2, Dissertation Part 2
• DR1SUP, Doctoral Supervision 1
• DR2SUP, Doctoral Supervision 2
• DR3SUP, Doctoral Supervision 3
• MBAPROJA, MBA Project