Enterprise International specialises in consultancy, technical assistance and the management and delivery of innovative economic development programmes. In addition, it has considerable experience in trade and investment and business-to-business co-operation on a worldwide basis.
Regional development
We develop strategies and assist people who are involved in regional restructuring to develop institutions, programmes and human capacities. Strategies often include the need for various forms of partnerships between public and private sectors, an area in which we have particular expertise.
Finance for development
Though we do not provide finance ourselves outside the UK, we advise on the most appropriate finance for economic development, especially to maximise public and private sector partnership.
Structural Funds
Over the last 15 years we have become the UK experts in the strategies, fund-raising and effective programme management for the EU’s Structural Funds. We see this expertise as being especially useful in the Accession countries of Central Europe.
Governance
Political, economic and social change inevitably poses challenges for central, regional and local government. We have worked at all levels of government, but especially with regional and local government, to development economic and social strategies and to adapt and develop institutions for the new responsibilities that are demanded.
Enterprise Support
Our core experience is in supporting the development of the private sector and especially micro, small and medium sized businesses. We have assisted in policy, training, workspace, industrial parks, information services, small business agencies, as well as with specific groups in the labour market, for example women entrepreneurs.
Technology based businesses
We have a particular expertise in assisting technology based businesses. In the UK we are responsible for some of the most advanced measures for combining space, consultancy and innovation funds for new, competitive business development. This expertise is now widely demanded in international programmes.
Funds for micro and small businesses
Our practical track record in establishing and managing a wide range of funds for micro and small businesses possibly cannot be matched in Europe. We can assist in strategy, and design, establishing funds and the related training, and in evaluation.
Employment Services
There is a concern for job creation in all communities and we have worked to encourage new approaches to job creation, as well as targeting support for example to long - term unemployed people. We have also worked in communities which have had to change fundamentally and this has involved major restructuring programmes.
Restructuring, enterprises and regions
We have not only assisted particular industries with restructuring strategies, especially to maximise the potential for spin outs, but we have assisted whole communities to make the transition from dependencies on a particular industry towards a more diversified economic base. We have worked to support such change in Slavutich, the home of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power station workers.
Sector strategies and development
Our sector specialties are in coal, automotive industries, engineering, textiles and tourism. We also have a particular expertise in coastal zone management, based on over a decade of experience throughout Europe’s coastal areas.
Human resources
Everything we do involves human resource development. We have wide experience in strategies relating the enabling skills for development: training and consultancy skills; business training; and management development programmes utilising the most advanced interactive and learning - from - experience approaches.
Community - based programmes
We have a long track record of encouraging locally - based, ‘bottom up’ approaches to development, in order to maximise long term sustainability and the inclusion of groups of people, often excluded from mainstream economic development programmes, the poorest and most vulnerable in the community.