Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>The ‘Evolve Digital’ trial was developed with the objective of boosting digital adoption in small family firms through identifying a cost-effective, yet productivity-enhancing programme of peer group learning for small family businesses, which can be replicated throughout the country.</p> <p>Evolve Digital provided small, family-owned firms with an on-line, cohort-based, and facilitated opportunity for learning about digital technologies. Compared to a randomly selected control group, the programme had a significant and sizable positive impact on firms’ confidence in their ability to identify relevant digital technologies, and on firms’ attitudes towards using digital technologies.</p> <p>The Evolve Digital trial aims to combine formal guidance on digital technologies and a strong element of peer learning to enhance firms’ confidence to adopt new digital technologies. The intervention was based on experience from previous schemes but was specifically designed to achieve the following: to be delivered over a much shorter period (4 months); to address the needs of small family businesses; and, to address the needs of all small family firms, not just manufacturing firms. Combined, these changes will enable a much more affordable trial and greater opportunities for replication if successful.<br /> </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk/publications/evaluation-of-the-evolve-digital-programme-to-promote-digital-adoption-in-family-firms-a-randomised-control-trial/ Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Citation for use in academic references
