Cavendish Micro-Business Productivity Boost Project

这项试验由卡文迪什财团(以卡文迪什企业的名义交易)领导，将工作分包给我们与之建立了良好关系的四个交付合作伙伴(TEDCO、Enterprise First、Business West&NWES)以及OMB Research。我们将与企业研究中心(ERC)合作对随机对照试验进行评估。我们的目标是为中小企业确定一个成本效益高、但提高生产率的商业支持计划，该计划可以在全国范围内大规模运行。我们的实验解决了2016年Nesta大规模研究的一个关键发现，即经济衰退后成立的新公司拖累了整体生产率。而公司内部生产率增长缓慢是造成英国生产率难题的主要因素。我们相信托尼·丹克(Be The Business，2018年6月6日)的说法是正确的，即世界级的领导力和管理实践已被证明能够提高生产率。我们相信，如果我们能够选择正确的企业，带领它们通过正确的过程，嵌入有效的领导和管理实践，我们将证明参与的公司的生产率得到了明显的提高。我们相信，我们的创新诊断和新的业务支持方法将对微型企业产生比传统1：1业务支持更大的影响。我们将在一年内进行一项随机对照试验，治疗时间为6个月，评估时间为6个月。控制组和治疗组各有150人，将从Start and Growth计划开始，从现有的一批不断增长的微型企业中脱颖而出。普通人群中的150家微型企业将组成额外的对照组。创业和成长这一群体很有用，因为：1)英国初创企业面临的一个问题是，许多初创企业都没有撑过三年。我们的创业和成长队列是年龄在1-3岁之间的企业。2)在创业支持政策制定中的一个挑战是收集更长时间内创业企业的丰富数据。我们已经拥有了S的300家企业的相关数据，从而能够收集更丰富的数据。3)S公司的典型规模是1-9名员工。BE商业计划的重点是10-249名员工的公司。我们坚信，关于如何提高微型企业生产率的丰富数据和见解--2017年有111万微型企业--将对英国纳税人资金的政策制定和未来稳健投资非常有用。

"This trial is led by Cavendish Consortium (trading as Cavendish Enterprise) with work subcontracted to four delivery partners we have an established relationship with (TEDCO, Enterprise First, Business West & Nwes) and also OMB Research. We will be collaborating with The Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) for the evaluation of the Randomised Control Trial.Our goal is to identify a cost effective, yet productivity enhancing programme of business support for SMEs which can be run at scale throughout the country.Our experiment addresses a key finding from a large-scale NESTA research study in 2016, namely that new firms created after the recession have dragged overall productivity down. And that slow productivity growth within firms is the main factor responsible for the UK productivity puzzle.We believe Tony Danker's statement (Be The Business, June 6th, 2018) that world class leadership and management practices have been shown to boost productivity, to be true. We believe that if we can select the right businesses, take them through the right process of embedding effective leadership and management practices, we will demonstrate a clear improvement in the productivity of the participating firms. We believe that our innovative diagnostic and our novel approach to business support will have a significantly greater impact on micro businesses than traditional 1:1 business support.We will run a randomised control trial over one year, with six months treatment time and six months evaluation time. The control and treatment groups, each of 150, will come from an existing cohort of growing micro-businesses from the Start and Grow programme. 150 micro-businesses from the general population will form an additional control group. The Start and Grow cohort is useful because:1) A problem faced by start-ups in the UK is that many do not make it past three years. Our Start & Grow cohort are businesses aged between 1-3 years.2) A challenge in policy development for start-up support is collecting rich data on start-up businesses over a longer period of time. We already have relevant data for the 300 S&G businesse, enabling richer data collection.3) The typical S&G firm size is 1-9 employees. The Be Business Initiative is focusing on firms sized 10-249 employees. We firmly believe that rich data and insights on how to boost the productivity of micro-businesses, of which there were 1.11m in 2017, will be highly useful for policy development and future sound investment of UK taxpayers' money."