How do we create more high-growth small businesses
By Giles Thorpe
According to research there are only 30,000 high growth small businesses (HGSB) in the UK, which accounts for a small percentage of the 7m businesses in this country. And yet these HGSBs generated 68 per cent of jobs and in 2013 had an annual turnover of £114.4bn, creating £55bn of Gross Value Added (GVA).