Inge Hill is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Birmingham City University. She is a small business expert and experienced business support practitioner with 14 years of business support experience in London and the West Midlands. Her clients included public sector providers such as Business Link West Midlands, Business Link London, and Birmingham City Council, as well as those companies she supported directly. She joined the full-time staff of Birmingham City University in September 2013 after having worked with students there on new venture creation since January 2013. Inge is a Senior Fellow of the HE Academy and has been teaching regularly at West Midlands Universities since she left full-time academia in 2007. She was a Research Associate at the London School of Economics from 1999 to 2004 before she was a full-time staff member at Kingston University and Oxford Brooks University at Senior Lecturer level.