Our consulting and applied research projects range from short-term individual assignments to multi-year cross-country studies involving large interdisciplinary teams. Visit lse.ac.uk/consulting for more information.
GalleryDriverless cars: Negotiating a place on the road
Driverless cars, also known as Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) – are they safer, lifestyle enhancing and economically efficient? Or are they lacking in common sense and a potential nuisance? The challenge is not simply to ensure AVs avoid colliding with other drivers: they need to satisfy other drivers that they are competent at negotiating their place in the social space that is the road.
GalleryBook launch: Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Government Financing in Serbia and Montenegro
Book launch: Fiscal Decentralisation and Local Government Financing in Serbia and Montenegro
GalleryA new LSE study – Travel distribution: the end of the world as we know it?
Gatekeepers, ‘mega meta online travel agencies’, and artificial intelligence may fundamentally disrupt the future of travel distribution, says a new independent study by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
The report was commissioned by Amadeus, and insights are drawn from business leader interviews, data analysis and a major sector-specific survey spanning all global markets.
Data transparency and accessibility in the EU
How can the EU help ordinary citizens make sense of how their funds are spent?#EUdata
Administrations at all levels should seek to communicate information on how EU funds are spent in the easiest possible language and make use of the opportunities provided by technological progress. These were the evidence-based policy recommendations of the LSE-led team looking at how data transparency and accessibility could be further improved in the EU. Best practices, such as daily updates to websites, provision of additional information in the form of digital maps and the use of social and mass media were also identified.
GalleryWhat will happen when self-driving cars hit the roads?
According to a 2015 Goodyear/LSE survey of drivers from 15 European countries, 88 percent of respondents agreed that there are “unwritten rules” that govern driver interactions with pedestrians, cyclists and other vehicles on the road. Now new research will investigate the attitudes and readiness of drivers to share the road with autonomous vehicles.
GalleryHow can we solve the global pensions challenge?
Adam Austerfield of LSE Enterprise and the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain explores the issues facing current pension models. The LSE Global Pensions Programme 2016 will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 4-8 July.
GalleryWhat impact could a Brexit have on the HE sector? Should universities get involved in the debate?
Dr Anne Corbett says the higher education sector would suffer cuts to its funding and collaborative research with the EU in the event of a Brexit, with particular threats to science research.
GalleryA Brexit roundup
Adam Austerfield, Director of Global Market Development at LSE Enterprise and Regional Vice-President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Spain was interviewed about the effects of Brexit on UK nationals in Spain. ‘In the 1970s, when Britain joined the EU, the trade patterns changed fundamentally and underpinned growth in the 80s and 90s. Existing and new trade links would be affected, and people setting up businesses in Spain might look for trade partners other than the UK.’
GalleryHow urban policy choices determine today’s world
In an LSE-British Chamber of Commerce of Spain special event, LSE’s Dr Graham Floater spoke at a lunchtime talk on ´Infrastructure, Energy and Technology: the Business of Cities in the 21st Century´ to senior executives from the sector.
GalleryWhat do businesses need from governments
LSE Enterprise associate Dr Robyn Klingler Vidra is interviewed on BBC Business about what businesses need from governments
GalleryLSE staff: take a five minute survey and win a case of wine
We are conducting a survey to assess the experience of LSE academic and administrative staff when working with our consulting team
GalleryMeasuring the social impact of business
We suggest ‘standing on the shoulders’ of the existing methodologies by creating a radically transparent platform that encourages society-wide dialogue about the economic and social impact of business activities – known as the External Rate of Return. – Robyn Klingler-Vidra
GalleryHelping organisations harness the power of innovative IT technologies
Professor Carsten Sørensen of the Department of Management worked through LSE Enterprise to identify how PA Consulting Group could use IT systems in innovative ways within organisations.
Read the case study on the LSE website
GalleryConference: Rethinking regulation and value assessment of medical technologies
The second LSE Summit, to be held in London on 8-9 March, will explore the challenges and opportunities around the regulation and value assessment of medical technologies.
How much do British universities need the EU?
Higher education and research do not have a place in David Cameron’s shopping basket of EU renegotiation items. But they are an obvious topic for a higher education institution such as the LSE to take up at a defining moment in Britain’s relationship with Europe.
GalleryThe benefits of Student Opportunity funding
When you understand the range of positive results that are not measured in widening participation funding – and yet acknowledged – you realise there is much to be done and understood about how social inclusion works in higher education.
GalleryCycling, drugs and house prices: five facts from our UK studies
Five facts:
The annual output of London’s creative industries has been estimated at up to £25 billion
Skilled immigrants affected UK house prices in 2007-11 by less than 1%
Someone is stopped and searched for drugs every 58 seconds in England and Wales
Cycling generated £2.9 billion for the UK economy in 2010
Early intervention approaches to mental health services could annually save the UK up to £40 million
GalleryFive facts from our consulting projects
95% of youth surveyed in five EU countries are significantly distrustful of politicians – far more than in any other continent
76% of 19-year-olds in South Korea were in tertiary education in 2007, compared to only 29% in the EU19
The combined effect of EU accession and cohesion policy gave the EU12’s 2007-9 GDP a 10.6% boost
30 million people globally are unaware that they have dementia
The direct cost of diabetes across France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK in 2010 was €90 billion
GalleryWhat will be the economic, social and environmental effects of the EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement?
The EU-Japan FTA has the potential to contribute substantially to the ‘Trade for All’ strategy of the European Commission and to the goal of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth throughout the EU. It has been a great opportunity for all of us at LSE Enterprise to engage closely with multiple stakeholders to discuss the potential impact of the FTA.
GalleryFrom children’s rights to banking standards – social science in action
From children’s rights to banking standards: the LSE Enterprise annual report is out.
