New Creativeworks London Working Paper: Profiling business support provision for small, medium and micro-sized enterprises in London’s fashion sector

The primary aim of this paper is to build a profile of the business support landscape that exists for fashion SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and MSEs (micro-sized enterprises) in London. In the face of multiple challenges, fashion sector SME/MSEs benefit from the services provided by business support organisations. We have identified 21 fashion support organisations that exist in London. They can be broadly divided into two types of business support organisations: fashion incubators and partial-support organisations, both of which play an equally important role in the sector.

Author:

Tarek E Virani (Creativeworks London/Queen Mary, University of London)

Mark Banks (University of Leicester)

Research Strand: Place Work Knowledge (PWK)

Date: July, 2014

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