Frontier Reports and Briefings
Evidence and practical propositions for a stronger Welsh SME economy. Explore Dragonomics on co-operative enterprise, or start with the CREATE · CONNECT · KEEP Framework Briefing and its three Reports.
New briefing · Updated October 2026
Frontier Briefing
A Cooperative Strategy for Economic Transformation in Wales
What would it take to make co-operative enterprise a mainstream part of Welsh economic development? Lessons from Mondragon and Emilia-Romagna, with practical proposals for finance, skills and business growth.
CREATE · CONNECT · KEEP brings the series into one argument: business success should leave an economy better equipped to generate its next opportunity.
Frontier Briefing · September 2026
A Framework for a Stronger Welsh SME Economy
A connected framework for creating viable enterprises, strengthening relationships between firms and retaining or recycling the capabilities that business success creates.
Enterprise creation and progression; useful relationships between independent firms; and the retention or recycling of productive capability.
Frontier Report · September 2026
Creating Businesses, Creating Employers
Wales should support viable enterprise in its many forms and make it easier for businesses with demand and ambition to take their next step.
Frontier Report · September 2026
The Missing Middle
Independent firms can achieve more when they can draw on capabilities, relationships and markets that would be uneconomic to build alone.
Frontier Report · September 2026
Keeping Value in Wales
Business succession and successful exits should leave an economy with more capability: experienced people, viable firms, knowledge, relationships and investment.
Our next publications will explore heritage, SME development and small-scale manufacturing.