Centre for Business Prosperity (CBP) builds on the former Lloyds Banking Group Centre for Business Prosperity at Aston University, is the research centre aiming to illuminate how the UK might most effectively respond to critical economic challenges of the post EU-exit and post-COVID environment. The team has strong expertise in, commitments to and effective communications about research on internationalisation, productivity, entrepreneurship, markets and regulation the UK and the World. We do this by pursuing independent, critical, rigorous and timely research and in partnership with our stakeholders to inform and influence decision-making of businesses and sectoral, individual and households and policy-makers at regional, national and international level.