Like any policy area, entrepreneurship comes with its own jargon, acronyms and buzzwords. To help demystify it, we’ve created the A to Z of Entrepreneurship – a guide to key concepts, policies and initiatives shaping the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.

We hope it serves as a useful resource for politicians, policymakers, researchers and anyone looking to better understand the landscape of entrepreneurship policy.

Our intention is for the A to Z to be a living, breathing, and ever-evolving archive — continually being updated and expanded as and when policies change. As such, if you think we’ve missed a topic out or if you spot something that’s not quite right, please feel free to get in touch with us.

Accelerators

Dr Fabio Bianchi

Apprenticeship Levy

Georgiana Bristol

Companies House

Henry Whorwood.

Enterprise Zones

Xuanru Lin

Help to Grow: Management

Daniel Woolf.

Investment Reliefs

Christiana Lockhart-Stewart

Mansion House Reforms

Chris Elphick.

Patent Box

Regulatory Innovation Office

Leo Ringer

UK Shared Prosperity Fund

Mike Spicer

Advance Market Commitments

Aria Schrecker

British Business Bank

Kieran Neild-Ali

Competition and Markets Authority

Cristina Caballero

Export Finance

Grace Thompson

High-growth Firms

Professor Mark Hart

jHub Defence Innovation

Matt Smith

National Wealth Fund

Mann Virdee

Public Procurement

Hollie Rose Hodgson

Spinouts

Edward Bussey

Visas

Ilda de Sousa.

Youth Entrepreneurship

Anita Tiessen

Advanced Research and Invention Agency

Dan Cole.

Business Asset Disposal Relief

Philip Salter

Data (Use & Access) Act

Eamonn Ives

Freeports

Mike Spicer

Intellectual Property Office

Mann Virdee

King’s Awards for Enterprise

Eamonn Ives

Office of the Small Business Commissioner

Emma Jones CBE.

Quoted Companies

James Ashton

Start Up Loans

Michael Hayman MBE DL

What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth

Victoria Sutherland

Zombie Firms

Eamonn Ives

Annual Investment Allowance

Sam Dumitriu

Business Rates Relief

Craig Beaumont OBE

Economic Development Organisations

Mike Spicer

The GREAT Campaign

Toby Orr

Invest in Women Taskforce

Licensing

Mann Virdee

Open Data

Kir Nuthi

R&D Tax Credits

Florence Young

Talent Retention Schemes

Sarah-Jane Butler

X-Road

Christman Roos