Research, evaluation and insight

Over 2005 and 2006 the ProspeKT project was developed as part of a major partner investment project, funded by Scottish Enterprise (SE) and the University of Edinburgh (UoE), undertaken to better exploit the commercial potential of the School of Informatics (SoI) at UoE.

The Wellness and Health Innovation (WHI) project provides specialised support to Scottish companies that are developing innovative technology-enabled products, services or applications for the growing wellness and health market.

A partnership within the Falkirk Grangemouth area, involving Scottish Enterprise, Chemicals Sciences Scotland and Falkirk Council, has agreed: a vision for the development of a low-carbon chemicals and logistics focused 'Investment Zone of National Significance'; and an action plan which enables the area's fullest potential to be realised and its contribution to national economic resurgence to be gained.

The Merchant City project aims to increase business collaboration, enhance tourism products and events, and develop new marketing and promotional activities within the Merchant City area of Glasgow.

The report aimed to explore whether there is a significant 'service gap' in business support between Scottish Enterprise (SE)/Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the Business Gateway.

The Commercial Breakthrough Service aimed to address observed weakness in sales and marketing skills amongst technology-based firms and specialist service companies in Scotland.

The CompeteFor (CFOR) free service consisted of three interventions: a web-based Electronic Brokerage System (EBS), to ensure that all members of the UK’s business community had access to, and could compete for, Olympics business opportunities; the Supplier Engagement Programme, which aimed to promote awareness of 2012 Olympic contract opportunities and maximise the number of businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), registering and proceeding to publish their pr…

The Commercialisation Awards (CAs) were small scale grants made available to the University of Dundee and the Scottish Crop Research Institute to take forward a specific piece of research with commercial potential.

The Stem Cell Translational Fund (SCTF) is a ring fenced £5 million fund established by Scottish Enterprise (SE) to match fund translational stem cell activity.

The Textile Technology Facilitator Service (TTFS), a Scottish Enterprise (SE) funded programme launched in February 2009, provided innovation and research and development (R&D) support to the technical textiles sector.

The Saltire Foundation project aimed to grow the entrepreneurial capabilities of future Scottish business leaders and address weaknesses in sales and marketing capability of Scottish high growth small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enable them to compete effectively in the global marketplace.

The Scottish Construction Centre (SCC) was launched in 2007 in response to the 2003 ‘Achieving Construction Innovation and Excellence in Scotland’ report and the recommendations of the Modernising Construction Strategic Group.

Scotland Europa’s European Union (EU) Research and Development (R&D) Funding Support Service was launched in 2009 in order to stimulate wider engagement of Scottish organisations in the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for R&D, and ultimately, to generate economic impacts for Scotland.

The Investor Readiness Support (IRS) product, within Scottish Enterprise's Strategic Development Intervention Framework, and delivered to relationship-managed and other growth companies, aimed to help businesses raise capital for growth.

The report presents the findings of a review of six Project Support Projects (PSPs) offered by Scottish Enterprise (SE) to client businesses: Business Efficiency Project Support; ICT Project Support (ICTPS); Management Development Project Support; Organisational Development Project Support (ODPS); Market Development Project Support; and Strategy Development Project Support.

The International Energy Skills and Training Alliance (IESTA) was formed by Scottish Enterprise (SE) in 2008 in recognition of the value and potential of the energy training market.

Nexxus was first launched in 2003 within the West of Scotland as a Life Sciences (LS) networking organisation.

The Scottish Enterprise (SE) Tourism Destination Development Strategy was approved in early 2008, with the aim of maximising the contribution that the six key tourism destinations in the SE area (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Highland Perthshire, Cairngorms/Royal Deeside and St Andrews) can make to the 50% revenue growth target set out in the tourism industry strategy.

This report summarises the outputs from a ‘road-test’ and review of Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) Carbon Impact Assessment (CIA) tools.

The role of networking is viewed as a useful tool in allowing businesses to explore new ideas, find new customers and suppliers and share knowledge and collaborate.

The research aimed to review the literature on the effectiveness of networks, following on from a 2009 SE internal survey and literature review.

This report presents forecasts for the volume and value of golf tourism from 2010 to 2015 and then to 2020.

TalentScotland is a joint project involving the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Scottish Development International.

This report discusses the broad issues and challenges in assessing the benefits to an economy of economic development spending; such as business support, infrastructure development, inward investment and sector development.

Scottish Enterprise (SE) commissioned EKOS to undertake a desk-based economic impact assessment of the RAF Leuchars airbase in Fife, in light of the recent Strategic Defence Review and speculation that the base may be considered for closure.