Sam Dumitriu

Sam Dumitriu is Research Director for The Entrepreneurs Network.

Since joining The Entrepreneurs Network he has authored multiple reports. They include:

• Management Matters, which as part of the Business Stay-Up campaign reviews the evidence on the link between management and productivity and sets out pragmatic reforms to boost the uptake of management training.
• Job Creators: The immigrant founders of Britain’s fastest growing business, which found that while just 14% of UK residents are foreign-born, 49% of the UK’s fastest-growing startups have at least one foreign-born co-founder.
• Unlocking Growth: How to expand access to capital, which evaluates the funding options open for SMEs from Start-Up Loans and grants to equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending and identifies key reforms to boost SME access to capital.

Prior to joining The Entrepreneurs Network full-time in 2018, he was Head of Research and before that Head of Projects. At the Adam Smith Institute he specialised in policy relating to emerging technologies, the gig economy and tax reform. While there, he published the report Capping Competition: Reforming the UK Energy Market. He also advised us informally on policy issues and wrote the report Tax Reform for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship. In the report, he identified reforms to business rates, corporate taxation, and relief for investors to encourage more entrepreneurial innovation and investment within the UK.

He regularly writes for major newspapers (including The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and City AM), is a frequent contributor to CapX, and has appeared as an expert commentator on the BBC, Sky News, and Channel 5 News.