We provide five core services from our offices in Glasgow, Manchester and Sheffield:
- Economic Impact and Appraisal
- Economic and Social Research and Analysis
- Policy and Strategy Development
- Evaluation and Monitoring
- Feasibility, Business Planning and Bid Development
To find out more about our core services, click on one of the links above.
Local Economic Development
Understanding local economies is a well established strand of the company’s analytical work and fits well with the government's new approach to local growth. The localism/local growth white paper is shifting power to local communities and businesses aspiring to more evenly balanced growth across the country and between industries. The company has conducted comprehensive local economic assessments assisting many clients to better understand the dynamics of their local economy. These include economic geography and linkage studies and wider reviews for a diverse range of locations from Yeovil in the South West to Durham in the North East.
The company provides support on independent economic analysis, appropriate governance arrangements and strategy and policy development. In the field of impact assessment and evaluation, We have assessed projects as well as programmes. This includes Green Book Appraisals of major schemes and project appraisal and development under a variety of funding streams including the Regional Growth Fund. The company was founded on the development and evaluation of Structural Funds and this continues to form a key part of policy and economics work as it evaluates both ERDF and ESF investment under the 2007-2013 programmes.
Our service offer includes:
- Local enterprise and enterprise growth - including enterprise start-up, finance and growth and enterprise and the development of Local Enterprise Partnership policies and implementation plans.
- Local economic analysis and impact assessment - including economic assessments and specific local analyses such as impact of redundancy and worklessness or development of plans for growth.
- Rebalancing the economy - helping clients to support strong, sustainable and balanced economic growth through analysis, bid development and project implementation/evaluation.
- Business improvement and skills for business - supporting locally competitive economies (see also enterprise and competitiveness) and the development of more competitive workforces.
- Urban and rural development - a growing portfolio of urban development and rural enterprise project and programme evaluations nationally and locally.
Contact Cassie Houlden on 0845 644 5407 or email: cassie.houlden@ekosgen.co.uk, or contact John McCreadie on 0845 644 3023 or email: john.mccreadie@ekosgen.co.uk