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> 4Manufacturing® is a tool developed by industry specialists to help UK manufacturers, and particularly SMEs, understand and adopt industrial digital technologies. The tool, used in conjunction with face-to-face expert support, is used to identify challenges currently faced by manufacturing businesses and ways in which these can be addressed by investment in and adoption of technology. An RCT was designed to evaluate the effect of the 4Manufacturing® tool and expert support on SMEs' investment in and adoption of industrial digital technologies. However, owing to difficulties of recruitment and high levels of attrition, no statistically significant impacts were identified. The project can therefore be considered more as a pilot than a final evaluation.</p> <p>Learning from this trial has been discussed in an <a href="https://www.innovationgrowthlab.org/blog/innovate-uk-innovate-uk-ktn-series-unexpected-events">IGL blog post</a>.<br /> </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/824219/results 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
