The Centre for Business Research (CBR) is an independent research institution within the University of Cambridge. It began originally as the Small Business Research Centre, and to this day, the study of smaller enterprises remains a key area of research. In October 1994, after obtaining core funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), it was relaunched as the CBR.

The CBR is a multi-disciplinary centre. Our research is uniquely well informed as it draws on expertise in Cambridge University departments ranging from the Faculties of Economics and Politics, Law, and Social and Political Sciences, the Departments of Geography and Land Economy, the Manufacturing Engineering Group within the Centre of Engineering, to the Judge Business School. Increasingly, we work in international collaboration. One current project, on 'International Innovation Benchmarking', involves collaboration with colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We also have research collaborations with Miami University, Ohio; Vienna University; and Doshisha University, Japan.

The research of the CBR has had a substantial policy and practitioners' impact (see for example ESRC's Impact Case Study News).

Sponsors

Sponsors of our research include the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which, for 10 years, supported the Centre with a core grant. We are grateful to the ESRC for continuing sponsorship for a number of our projects. Other current sponsors include the Cambridge-MIT Institute, the EU, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.