Research, evaluation and insight

The research project aimed to identify what Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire can learn from other successful small and medium sized city regions across the developed world.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) commissioned a series of economic reviews focusing on the functional economic geographies of the regions that form SE’s operating area: Aberdeen City and Shire, Dundee City Region, East Region, West Region and South of Scotland.

The report aimed to explore how Scotland’s four city regions - Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow - are currently performing and the prospects for improving their performance across the broad range of issues that impact on the place/talent relationship.

The report aimed to provide an analysis of the size, structure and nature of the early stage risk capital market in Scotland in 2008, covering only external equity investments.

The Scottish Government’s Economic Strategy identifies transport as one of the key factors in promoting economic growth in those sectors identified as having significant growth potential: energy, financial and business services, food and drink, life sciences, tourism, and the creative industries.

The report investigated the economic roles of places outside Scotland’s main cities, and in particular, their contribution to city regions.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) commissioned a series of economic reviews focusing on the functional economic geographies of the regions that form SE’s operating area: Aberdeen City and Shire, Dundee City Region, East Region, West Region and South of Scotland.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) Property Asset Management Service (PAMS) portfolio aimed to transform Scotland into a world-class business location for overseas and domestic companies.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) commissioned a learning review of its involvement in phase one of the Life Sciences Innovation Facility (LSIF) at the University of Aberdeen’s (UoA’s) Foresterhill Campus.

The Account and Client Management programme is a Direct Relationship Management (DRM) intervention, under which Scottish Enterprise (SE) provides support to companies that are considered to be capable of benefiting from a high level of attention.

KIT-OUT the Park supports activities involving technology transfer from Glasgow Caledonian University’s knowledge base to companies operating within the tourism industry.

In September 2005 the Scottish Enterprise (SE) Board agreed to a £5m investment in ProspeKT, a programme to support ‘enhanced commercialisation activities’ at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) tourism product development activity aims to develop new products and services within seven key areas of tourism in Scotland – Whisky, Food, Country Sports (including angling), Ancestral, Forest (including mountain biking), Golf, and Built Heritage – in order to increase the contribution of the sector to economic growth.

The Riverside Inverclyde (RI) Urban Regeneration Company (URC) aimed to advance economic growth through the exploitation of opportunity, for the benefit of the business and residential community of Inverclyde.

Scottish Development International (SDI) offered a range of products which aimed to help firms internationalise, increase export volumes and improve productivity.

Scottish Development International’s (SDI) inward investment and talent attraction activities aimed to increase productivity growth and competition, and attract high value jobs and skills from international firms, particularly across the key industries outlined in the Scottish Government's Economic Strategy (GES).

The Hillington Park and Alba Innovation Centres were established in 2000 and 2005 respectively to support the development of knowledge-based, high growth technology companies.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE) Commercialisation programme, which included 18 projects that engaged with 1,306 companies, aimed to deliver support to technology based businesses, ranging from investment to intensive support around the development of potential high growth businesses.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) R&D Grant programme is a discretionary, single company grant that supports businesses to undertake development of new products or processes to the pre-production prototype stage through discretionary grants of up to 25% of eligible project costs.

Phase 1 of the development of Fife Energy Park (FEP) involved investment in infrastructure redevelopment as part of a programme to create a viable business location for the Energy sector in Scotland and support the emerging renewable energy sector.

Innovation Through Collaboration (ItC) was launched in November 2007, managed on behalf of the Chemical Sciences Scotland (CSS) Innovation Group, as a way to encourage the development of collaborative projects between organisations in the Chemical Sciences sector in Scotland.

The Scottish Technology and Collaboration (STAC) project supports collaborative projects involving Scottish software small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The Evaluation of Intervention with Clusters and Industries in Scotland aims to be a learning evaluation for Scottish Enterprise (SE) on the policy interventions pursued to date.

The Evaluation of Intervention with Clusters and Industries in Scotland aims to be a learning evaluation for Scottish Enterprise (SE) on the policy interventions pursued to date.

The Evaluation of Intervention with Clusters and Industries in Scotland aims to be a learning evaluation for Scottish Enterprise (SE) on the policy interventions pursued to date.