Backing Breakthrough Businesses

The Private Business Commission was launched to investigate why some companies appear to struggle to maximise their growth potential within the UK, and to advocate for policies to better incentivise and enable them to do so.

Focusing on four policy areas — funding, capital markets, taxation and employee incentives — Backing Breakthrough Businesses assesses the current business landscape for Britain’s scaling companies, before culminating with a series of recommendations to spur their growth and ensure Britain is attractive a place as possible for them to stay.

Building Blocks

Britain is a great place to be an entrepreneur – with many of the world’s most successful founders calling it home. The startups they have launched make a vital contribution to the economy, providing jobs, tax revenue, innovative goods and services and more. But there is a palpable sense that we could be doing so much better. Productivity has plateaued for far too long, causing living standards to stagnate, and evidence suggests the pace of innovation has slowed.

In Building Blocks, we set out our vision statement to secure Britain’s economic future – arguing that focusing on getting the basics right first is the best way policymakers can support entrepreneurs.