Publication

Feasibility Study – Exploring the Long-Term Impact of Business Support Services.

Published: 27 March 2015

ERC Research Paper No 29

Associated Themes

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  Productivity and performance

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This report is a feasibility study examining whether it is possible to observe a longer term impact of business improvement schemes in general using the old Business Link (BL) offer in England in 2003 as an example. The report covers the methodological issues of assessing the economic impact of business support interventions over an extended time period, although the findings will be of interest to policy makers. Building on the published evaluation of BL in 2006 this new analysis uses 7 additional years of employment and turnover data from the ONS Business Structure Database (BSD) to demonstrate the value of longitudinal evaluation time frames.

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