Research, evaluation and insight

SEDG contact management system aimed to assist Dumfries and Galloway’s Food and Drink Processing sector.

Get into ENTERPRISE, a Scottish-wide personal development programme, aimed to help tackle barriers that contribute to social exclusion.

The Get Ready for Work (GRfW) Exit Pack aimed to improve positive outcome rates and job sustainability; provide ongoing support for GRfW clients once they have left the programme; encourage them to re-engage with Careers Scotland; and re-engage negative leavers and encourage them to return, if appropriate.

Get Ready for Work (GRFW) is the enterprise network’s national labour market access intervention for young people aged between 16 and 18 with additional support needs (ASN).

The Glasgow Challenge pilot projects helped to move Glasgow’s social excluded, mainly people on ‘non-Job Seekers Allowance’ (JSA), into employment.

Glasgow Exports (GE) aimed to provide bespoke support to the international business development needs of Glasgow-based businesses.

Glasgow Works aimed to tackle Glasgow’s problem of long-term unemployment.

The Glasgow Works programme aimed to introduce an Intermediate Labour Market (ILM) approach, with a wider range of activities available to the long-term unemployed, and the devolution of project delivery to community-based and training organisations.

The Go for Tourism initiative aimed to identify and address the key skills and labour market challenges that the tourism sector faced in the Forth Valley area.

Graduates for Business (GFB) was set up with the aim of helping businesses become more competitive by accessing the skills of graduates from Scotland’s universities.

Graduates for Growth (GfG) was established in January 1998 as a means of bringing together graduates and SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) employers.

Waterfront Edinburgh Limited (WEL) was formed in March 2000 to facilitate the development of the Granton Waterfront.

The Hillington Park Innovation Centre (HPIC) aimed to support the creation of new knowledge-based, technology, product and process enterprises, providing low displacement, high value add businesses and jobs in Central Scotland.

The St Andrews World Class (SAWC) was launched as a partnership initiative in 2003 to recognise and build on St Andrews’ existing international competitive advantages of golf, tourism and university research.

Lanarkshire Economic Forum’s (LEF) updated local economic strategy, ‘Changing Gear: Towards 2010’, and the subsequent Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, aimed to assist partners to identify key issues and challenges, and to help design and prioritise interventions to improve economic performance.

The Biotechnology Business Advisory Service (BBAS) is one of the key interventions available to the Scottish Enterprise network to support the emergence and growth of a SME base in the life sciences/biotechnology sector.

This interim evaluation provided an overview of 8 business development programmes consolidated into a ‘Growing Business’ group within the Forth Valley Business Gateway.

The Computer Network Training (CNT) programme aimed to offer retraining in computer skills to unemployed residents of Forth Valley and to provide a supply of scarce information and communications technology (ICT) skills to the market.

The Community Regeneration Fund aimed to rebuild confidence within local communities after the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak and to initiate lasting processes of community economic development in the region.

The Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley (SEFV) 2002-2004 Environmental Service programme aimed to encourage resource efficiency in businesses, to generate improved business performance with sustainable development benefits for the environment.

The Institute for System Level Integration (ISLI) was set up by Scottish Enterprise (SE) to fill the gap between industry and academia in the field of electronic product design and technology.

This programme funded the establishment of a part-time degree course in Supply Chain Management (SCM), delivered by three universities, aimed at the electronics industry.

The e-Skills Academy aimed to increase the competitiveness of the Scottish economy by providing high quality training and development for individuals and organisations wishing to work in an e-world.

The Tourism Growth Programme aimed to target key tourism businesses with the capacity and capability for high growth to enable them to become more competitive, accelerate growth and to raise profitability and employment levels.

The International Trade Development (ITD) Programme, run by the Renfrewshire and Inverclyde Export (RIE) Partnership, aimed to be a ‘one-stop-shop’ providing businesses with advice and support on all aspects of international trade development.