The SME sector, like universities, has a keen interest in the final Brexit outcome. Future challenges around funding streams, access to skills and collaboration mean that withdrawal from the European Union will have an impact in higher education too. Therefore, business and universities have a key role to play in the debate, and in developing and promoting ideas, such as those which have emanated from these focus groups.
To ensure policy-making is informed and creates the right environment for economic growth, the partnership between Ulster University Business School and FSB is of high value and this report is testament to that.