A scale-up is a business that has grown by at least 20% in either turnover or staff for three consecutive years.  The 2017 Annual Scale-up Review form the Scale-up Institute identified 31,440 scale-ups in the UK (out of a total of 5.7 million businesses, 99% of which are SMEs) – so it’s a small and elite club. But why is being a member of the club important? The Scale-up Institute has quite rightly identified that nurturing scale-ups has the potential to make significant improvements to … [Read more...]