Research, evaluation and insight

The Innovation Support Programme (ISP) aimed to encourage and support innovation within the Lanarkshire business community.

SEL’s range of internationalisation support programmes aimed to assist and encourage firms to overcome the relatively high risk they perceive when considering entry to a new international market.

Inward investment aimed to help address job losses within traditional industries in the Forth Valley by attracting foreign direct investment and mobile investment from indigenous companies.

In North Ayrshire, Joblink aimed to improve access to training for Training for Work (TfW) clients and the Adult Training and Recruitment Credit (ARTC) pilot aimed to provide financial and training support to employers and clients when they exit training and enter employment.

The Lanarkshire Branding and Communication Project (LBCP) was created with the aim of changing negative perceptions of Lanarkshire and promoting the area as a place to live, work and invest.

The Lanarkshire Strategic Tourism Marketing Project (LSTMP) was created with the aim of raising Lanarkshire's profile to visitors, challenging negative perceptions and raising awareness of the area's tourism product.

The ‘Corporate Leadership’ MSc and the ‘Emerging Executives’ programme aimed to develop leaders to be successful in the current and future business climate and contribute to the SE Strategic Objective of creating growing businesses with an innovative and far-sighted culture.

The Get into Enterprise (GiE) programme was used in Dumfries and Galloway to rekindle the spirit of enterprise in the community, following the outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease.

The Learning Journeys Programme sought to expose British tourism businesses to the operational practices of two exemplar businesses, the Disney Institute in Florida, USA, and the Schindlerhof Hotel in Nuremberg, Germany.

Medical devices in Scotland (MDIS), a membership based company, aimed to stimulate and promote the medical devices sector in Scotland.

The Skillseekers programme aimed to encourage young people leaving education to enter training and secure higher levels of skills and qualifications.

The evaluation aimed to: identify various models and methods of delivery currently being used across the Business Gateways and local enterprise companies (LECs) and the differential impact support services have had on social enterprises; assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the current services and support provided to social enterprises by the Business Gateways and LECs, including the fit with the Growing Business segmentation model; establish the impact of the support services on the cl…

The New Jobs for Glasgow 2 (NJFG2) aimed to create new or expanded social enterprise jobs by: using established intermediate labour market models; identifying new job growth areas; and demonstrating how basic models could be developed to contribute to the local economy.

NEXXUS was formed in 2003 with the aim of: facilitating communication, knowledge sharing and collaboration between organisations involved in life sciences and related activities in the West of Scotland; and raising the profile locally and nationally of the West of Scotland as a life science centre and contributing to any Scottish Enterprise activity on an international basis.

Solway Heritage (SH) aimed to: secure the sustainable management of the natural and man-made heritage; conserve and enhance buildings or artefacts of architectural historical interest; conserve and enhance landscape and wildlife resources; and interpret and encourage informed public access to the built, natural and cultural heritage.

Partnership by Design, initiated by Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire (SED), aimed to: promote effective partnerships to develop and implement economic development strategies; focus on common objectives and aspirations, building effective and efficient linkages and being prepared to assume leadership or step back as appropriate; and improve teamwork and partnership through performance and the recognition of achievements.

The evaluation aimed to assess the overall success of the Supply Chain and Product Development Process Improvement Projects (SCPI and PDPI projects) in meeting their objectives.

The Phoenix Industrial Park aimed to contribute to the wider economic regeneration of Renfrewshire in general and the provision of high quality business locations in particular.

The Positive Futures ‘inclusiveness project’ aimed to establish strategic, operational and funding partnerships between the key agencies that engage with young people and provide key worker support through operational partnerships with a range of agencies.

The Profit Through Knowledge (PTK) programme aimed to help companies develop a business opportunity or address a need via a targeted placing of graduates and undergraduates within companies.

The aim of Project ACE was to assist Rolls-Royce (RR) in 2002 to move their operations from Hillington to a new factory in Inchinnan.

The Rowallan Business Park project aimed to provide a high quality business park, attractive to inward investment and indigenous businesses, to act as a strategic business location in and gateway to Ayrshire.

The aim of the evaluation was to assess the impact of the 2001 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) on the Borders economy, and the effectiveness of Scottish Enterprise Borders’ (SEB) response to the crisis.

The Getahead project was commissioned by Scottish Enterprise (SE) as a series of roadshows designed to give careers advice to the wider working population.

Scottish Enterprise’s (SE’s) R&D (research and development) Plus Scheme was set up in 2003 to encourage industrial research and pre-competitive development among large companies by providing grants.