Enterprise (Transport) and Lifelong Learning Department
The Analytical Services Division, based in the Scottish Executive's Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department in Glasgow is responsible for undertaking economic analysis and providing advice across a wide range of issues. Areas covered include:
- regional policy (European Structural Funds and Regional Selective Assistance)
- analysis of industrial sectors including productivity and foreign ownership
- research and development
- knowledge transfer & innovation
- enterprise networks
- labour markets, skills, training
- higher & further education and small firms
The Division is also responsible for statistics on lifelong learning including higher and further education, local labour markets, and the corporate sector; as well as the development of research to support enterprise and lifelong learning policies.
In addition to providing briefing and advice for Scottish Executive Ministers and senior officials, the Division's work is published in Executive reports such as the Scottish Economic Report and Scottish Economic Statistics. The Division's economists have also contributed to the Framework for Economic Development for Scotland (FEDS) and to reflective papers for public or semi-public forums, including the Science Strategy Review Group, the Vocational Education and Training Review and the Knowledge Economy Task Force. The division continues to make a contribution to the Joint Performance Team.
In more detail, the Division provides advice on:
- Economic advice on regional/industrial policy
- Economic appraisal of large Regional Selective Assistance cases
- Research on commercialisation of university research
- Economic impact assessments
- Advice and analysis on the knowledge economy, high-tech sectors, including e-commerce, and Research and Development
- Economic Advice on Enterprise Networks, including working with the Joint Performance Team
- Advice and briefing on small firms in Scotland
- Advice and briefing on Service sector in Scotland
- Advice on the financial sector
- Advice on the labour market policies: skills, training, Employability Framework, and
- Advice and analysis on Lifelong Learning issues, including Higher and Further Education