Business Basics Programme
皇冠体育app Business Basics Programme was designed to test innovative ways of encouraging small and medium sized enterprises to adopt existing technologies and management practices to improve their productivity.
皇冠体育app Business Basics Programme tested innovative ways of encouraging small and medium sized enterprises to adopt tried and tested technologies and management techniques.
皇冠体育app programme was part of a series of measures to improve firm level productivity, including:
BEIS published the results of the projects supported under the programme to support local and national policy making and innovation.
Programme overview and objectives
皇冠体育app Business Basics Fund
皇冠体育app Business Basics Fund supported the projects selected under the Programme following open competitions. It was delivered in partnership with Innovate UK and the at Nesta.
皇冠体育app fund is now closed.
Programme progress and evaluation
皇冠体育app Programme will publish reports providing the evidence to support local and national policy making and innovation.
Partnership projects
As part of the wider Programme, BEIS is working with its partners to deliver targeted projects, for example in a specific place, sector or using specific techniques such as nudge or peer to peer advice.
This complements the 鈥渂ottom up鈥� approach of the Fund, and provides the flexibility to act on early findings and work with key stakeholders in an agile way.
Evaluation framework
Robust evaluation is a key element of the Business Basics Programme. In order to ensure that all projects are evaluated properly and can be compared with other business support activities, an overarching Evaluation Framework has been developed, to which all BEIS business support programmes should adhere.
Announcements
Related content
General help for business
CBI reports
皇冠体育app CBI in their 2017 report From Ostrich to Magpie estimated that better takeup of existing technology could unlock 拢100 billion of untapped UK economic potential.
- - November 2017
- 鈥� June 2018
Other reports
Updates to this page
-
Added 'Business Basics Programme: final report'.
-
Results of Round 3 have been published. Any updates including future rounds will be published here.
-
Research reports and Business Basics Programme progress report October 2019 added.
-
Business Basics Fund Round 3 now open to expressions of interest.
-
Business Basics Fund second round now closed to applications.
-
First published.