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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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Evaluation of Rural Business Property Support programme 2009-2013: final report
The Rural Business Property Support (RBPS) programme was a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) supported scheme to provide gap funding for property development by rural businesses, for their own use. . The key intended outcomes of the project were: improved productivity and turnover; business expansion; enabling the development of competitive, sustainable enterprises in rural areas; stimulation of increased rural business activity; enhanced rural diversification; and creation and safeguarding of jobs in the rural economy. The evaluation aimed to assess the delivery of the programme against target outputs and results. -
The international market opportunity for the Scottish low carbon heat sector
The report aimed to provide a review of the most attractive overseas export markets for Scottish businesses involved in ‘low carbon heat’, defined as those technologies that provide renewable heat or cooling, and any technology that improves the efficiency of providing, distributing or using heat or cooling. -
Analysis of the Scottish company base and market opportunities: low carbon heating and cooling and water supply and wastewater sectors
Scottish Enterprise (SE), working with Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE), commissioned Innovas to carry out an analysis of the company base in the low carbon heating and cooling and water supply and wastewater sectors in Scotland. The purpose of the study was to identify market opportunities arising from the global growth in demand for related goods, services and technologies and to assess the capabilities of firms in Scotland to exploit these opportunities. -
Evaluation of Planning to Succeed Programme in Tourism Sector 2010-14: final report
The Planning to Succeed Programme in the Tourism Sector (PTST) aimed to work with rural tourism business leaders to increase innovation, collaboration, investment and leadership in order to achieve higher value add from Scotland’s rural tourism assets. It involved facilitated support for groups of businesses over a three year period. The evaluation was commissioned ahead of a proposed continuation of the programme, with the aim of gathering evidence of its success, and particularly of its impact on action plans; additional activity undertaken by participants as a result of the programme; any outputs/actions achieved; potential outputs; and any collaborative activity. -
Decommissioning in the UKCS
Despite continued productivity in the UK oil and gas (O&G) industry, the North Sea remains one of the world’s mature petroleum provinces and, despite new developments, many assets are reaching the end of their field lives and will require decommissioning. Scottish Enterprise (SE), in partnership with Decom North Sea and Accenture, carried out an exercise to understand the nature of opportunities and challenges that exist for supply chain companies in the decommissioning sector. The aim of the study was to: map the decommissioning supply chain; assess capability and capacity; identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats; and make recommendations for the improvement of the supply chain.