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.
Latest Reports
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Evaluation of Scottish Enterprise Engagement with Account Managed Companies
The aim of account management is to generate additional economic impact by helping supported companies to achieve growth aspirations, generate and safeguard employment and improve efficiency and productivity. The evaluation assesses SE’s account management approach and SE’s engagement with account managed companies over the four year period 2008/09 to 2011/12. In particular, it aims to identify and better understand the net additional economic impact of account management support.
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Evaluation of Enterprise Fellowships: final report
Scottish Enterprise and the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Enterprise Fellowships programme aims to target researchers and innovators with entrepreneurial potential and a promising science and technology based business idea, by helping awardees grow their business via a year’s salary, business training, business development funding and access to mentors, business experts and professional advisers.
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A review of current international business and international entrepreneurship research and its policy-making implications
The report aimed to provide a holistic review of the existing literature on international business (IB) and international entrepreneurship (IE). IB is defined as the study of firms which do business across national borders, and IE as focusing on opportunity-driven entrepreneurial ventures that are international oriented at or immediately after founding.
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How “export-able” are you? A review of the export readiness literature
The review aimed to provide a holistic review of the existing academic literature on export readiness. Export readiness is defined as the stage at which a firm potentially changes from being a purely domestic to an international company.