Team Scotland's Export Promotion Support: evaluation

Summary findings of an evaluation of delivery partner support and services offered to businesses with export sales projects in Scotland between April 2018 and April 2021.


4. Summary of approach

4.1 The mixed methods approach includes, as well as a survey of and in-depth interviews with beneficiary firms, a survey of Scottish based exporting firms which had not received support. The intention of this was to provide a control group and to compare the make-up of assisted firms with general exporters. The approach also included econometric analysis of these survey results and analysis of SDI management information.

Table 1: Summary of approach
Sample stage Sample size Sample share
All firms supported between 2018 and 2021 (export and wider business development support) 3,053 100%
Firms that opted into the evaluation survey 2,329 76%
Post-survey adjustment of the evaluation survey 2,118 69%
Firms that responded to the survey 463 22%
In-depth interviews with firms 23 N/A
Non-beneficiary survey 2,231
Non-beneficiary survey responses 135 6%

Contact

Email: jonathan.edosomwan@gov.scot

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