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Evaluations Online is a publicly accessible collection of evaluation and research reports from Scottish Enterprise. The reports cover all aspects of Scottish Enterprise's economic development activities and are available for download at no cost.
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Acquisitions in Scotland 2003-19
This report updates the previous research into the acquisitions market in Scotland, extending the period of data analysis from 2003 through to 2019. The aim of the update was to provide latest available data to aid understanding of the landscape, and to set these findings in the context of other research which has been exploring the growth dynamics in Scotland. -
The economic opportunity for a large scale CO2 management industry in Scotland
Strathclyde University’s Centre for Energy Policy was engaged by Scottish Enterprise to research and prepare a short position paper that sets out the high level narrative for Scotland’s capacity/capability and potential opportunity as a CO2 transport and storage provider for capture at home and abroad, prior to the requirement for a more extensive quantitative study. The aim is to set out the basis for a large scale CO2 management industry in Scotland that could potentially serve domestic, UK and international needs. -
New business creation in Scotland’s regions and industries since 2010
This note considers the change in new business creation (start-ups) since 2010 across regions and industries. It draws on a previous paper looking at start-ups across regions and links to a wider, ongoing study of growth dynamics across Scotland and its regions. -
Digital Tourism Scotland evaluation
The Digital Tourism Scotland (DTS) programme offers sector specific digital support to tourism businesses in Scotland. DTS is run as a partnership programme and has six main delivery partners: Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), Scottish Tourism Alliance (STA), VisitScotland, Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and Business Gateway. The programme has also been supported through part funding by the Scottish Government. After almost 4 years of delivering a range of digital support activities, online and on the ground, the programme has been independently evaluated in 2019 to assess benefits, impacts and help identify whether a case for further intervention still exists. The evaluation has concluded the programme has been successful. -
Scotland’s inclusive economic performance
The Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework (NPF) sets out a vision for Scotland (of inclusive and sustainable economic growth) and an associated measurement framework. This paper outlines Scotland’s performance for a number of NPF and other measures that are key drivers of productivity and inclusive economic growth. Scotland’s performance is compared where possible to other economies, and the size of any performance gap, for example to the top quartile of economies, is estimated.