Research, evaluation and insight

The Local Construction Forums operating in the Scottish Enterprise (SE) East Operating Region under review for this evaluation were Forth Construction, Fife Construction Forum and the Edinburgh and Lothians Constructing Excellence Group.

The Improvement Programme, delivered by Investors in People (IIP) Scotland, offered a structured approach for business improvement for small to medium sized businesses, which aimed to stimulate and challenge businesses to improve performance and to maximise the potential of their staff.

The study was commissioned to assess the economic impact of Edinburgh Airport and its growth plans, considering the airport’s current and future importance to the Edinburgh City Region and to Scotland as a whole.

This document provides market intelligence on the concept of Energy Management in the Built Environment (EMBE).

Immunotherapy is defined broadly as a set of clinical interventions aimed at counteracting disease by modulating a patient’s immune system, using both conventional small molecule approaches and tools derived from the immune system itself.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) account management programme has been the key vehicle through which SE has implemented its Growing Business (GB) strategy, launched in 2005.

This evaluation of the Scottish Air Route Development Fund (RDF) was commissioned by Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Government, VisitScotland, and Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL), and conducted by Scott Wilson, in partnership with Westminster University’s Transport Studies Group and Sky High Ltd.

The pilot Customer Feedback Project ‘Listening to Our Visitors’ (LTOV) was launched by the Scottish Government in 2007 with the aim of: increasing the number of tourism-related businesses collecting and utilising customer feedback; understanding and disseminating good practice in this area across the tourism sector; and encouraging better data collection and utilisation at business, destination and national level.

The West of Scotland Science Park (WSSP) officially opened on 19th September 1983, aiming to provide a location for the development of businesses focusing on emerging and future technologies.

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 (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 (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 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) aimed to assess the entrepreneurial attitudes, activity and aspirations of individuals interacting with environment to affect economic development.

Multi-modal freight locations were established to improve the movement of freight throughout Scotland on a transport network including rail, sea, air and road transport, to help Scottish businesses compete internationally.

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 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.

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 (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.

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.