Engaging Rural Micros for increased productivity

吸引农村微型企业提高生产力

• 批准号: 104763
• 金额: $ 7.45万
• 依托单位: DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=104763
• 关键词: Engaging; Rural; Micros; increased; productivity

"This project will use a variety of methodologies to test assumptions, anecdotal evidence and theories around the most effective interventions for increasing productivity in rural micro enterprises, which make up over 90% of Devon's rural economy. We will use the results to devise a trial for delivering the intervention designed through this process, which will then be the subject of a further funding bid.We will use our own and partners' previous experience and other research to encapsulate good practice in business support and funding delivery. We want to understand why rural micros are hard to engage; what their drivers and barriers are; and what we can do to make it easier and less daunting for them to increase productivity. Often businesses have far more work than they can cope with so how can we help them to convert this market potential to productivity? From experience, we think that rural micro's may need support at a much more basic level to enable them to get past their barriers to change and taking up opportunities such as: support, funding, modern business practices; time to consider new ways of working; technologies and apprenticeships.Our Business Support & Innovation Team is based with Trading Standards in an Innovative and award winning new structure, as well as undertaking market support on behalf of our adult social care colleagues. We want to utilise the experience of TS colleagues who have daily contact with these types of business to really understand how we can best support rural micros.The SW Rural Productivity report 2017 states that Devon's economy has four overrepresented sectors, less productive than the national average and dominated by hard to reach micro's which don't engage with support. These will comprise our test sectors:* Micro Manufacturers* Micro aligned trades (e.g. construction, market traders, lifestyle businesses)* Micro Tourism including: accommodation, food and retail* Micro Health / Social Care businessesWe will use a combination of research and review; personal and digital surveys; focus groups and in-depth case studies to understand how rural micros work and test our assumptions and theories. We will then devise an intervention with informal partners, which utilises what we have learned to design the most effective intervention to increase productivity in rural micros and their take up of a variety of practice, technology, support and funding. It is hoped that we can big again to business basics to trial this intervention."

这个项目将使用各种方法来测试关于提高农村微型企业生产率的最有效干预措施的假设、轶事证据和理论，这些微型企业占德文郡农村经济的90%以上。我们将利用这些结果来设计一项试验，以提供通过这一过程设计的干预措施，然后作为下一次资金竞标的主题。我们将利用我们自己和合作伙伴以前的经验和其他研究来概括业务支持和资金交付方面的良好实践。我们想要了解为什么农村微型企业很难参与进来；他们的驱动力和障碍是什么；我们可以做些什么，让他们更容易、更不令人望而生畏地提高生产率。通常情况下，企业的工作量远远超过了他们的能力，那么我们如何帮助他们将这种市场潜力转化为生产力呢？根据经验，我们认为农村微型企业可能需要更基本的支持，以使他们能够克服变革的障碍，抓住机遇，例如：支持、资金、现代商业实践；考虑新的工作方式的时间；技术和学徒。我们的业务支持和创新团队以贸易标准为基础，以创新和获奖的新结构为基础，并代表我们的成人社会护理同事承担市场支持。我们希望利用TS同事的经验，他们每天都与这些类型的企业有联系，以真正了解我们如何最好地支持农村微型企业。2017年西南农村生产率报告指出，德文郡的经济有四个代表性过高的行业，生产率低于全国平均水平，主要是难以接触到的微型企业，它们不参与支持。这些将包括我们的测试部门：*微型制造商*微型联合行业(例如建筑、市场贸易商、生活方式企业)*微型旅游包括：住宿、食品和零售*微型健康/社会护理业务我们将使用研究和审查、个人和数字调查、焦点小组和深入的案例研究相结合的方式来了解农村微型企业是如何工作的，并检验我们的假设和理论。然后，我们将与非正式合作伙伴一起设计一项干预措施，利用我们所学到的知识来设计最有效的干预措施，以提高农村微型企业的生产率，并使他们接受各种实践、技术、支持和资金。希望我们能再次扩大到商业基础，以试验这种干预。