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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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Review of Scotland’s Enterprise Areas
This review was commissioned jointly by SE, Scottish Government, HIE and SDS to formulate options for Government, based on the evidence of performance to dated. Given that earlier work had found that companies based within the EAs were likely to have received a range of other public support, for example many being Account Managed, no attempt was made to assess the economic impact of the Areas. -
Energy Efficiency Capability Database Study
BRE (with support from Innovas Consulting Solutions Ltd) was appointed to undertake an Energy Efficiency Company Study to support the development of a Scottish supply chain programme for energy efficiency in the built environment. The study was concerned with evaluating Scottish capability and emerging opportunities associated with three energy efficiency sub-sectors: efficiencies in building fabric and related technologies; efficiencies in domestic heat, including space and water heating; and efficiencies at a network or aggregated community scale (excluding district heating), which may include elements of Energy Systems technologies. -
Review of Tourism Scotland 2020 Strategy
In December 2018, the Tourism Leadership Group (TLG) – the industry leadership group for Tourism – committed to refresh the national tourism strategy. To inform the refresh, Scottish Enterprise was asked by the TLG to commission a review of the current strategy, Tourism Scotland 2020 on their behalf. Its purpose was to capture the contribution which the current strategy, supporting governance and delivery arrangements have made to the sector’s growth and determine to what extent progress is being made towards the identified key performance indicators within the current strategy. -
Investment Benchmarking Analysis: Annual Report 2018
This report from Scottish Enterprise (SE) sets the performance of the risk capital market in Scotland in the context of other UK regions and the Republic of Ireland. The report analyses data on equity investments during 2018, in companies based in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. -
The Risk Capital Market in Scotland: Annual Report 2018
Scottish Government policy recognises that the strong supply of risk equity capital is important for national and regional economies due to the catalytic role that it plays in the entrepreneurial process. The purpose of this report is to provide a detailed analysis of the risk capital market in Scotland for the calendar year 2018. The report is one of a series dating back to 2003. To consider recent trends the report focuses on deals and investment levels from 2013.