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 Growth Impact Pilot, launched in April 2014, is a research project on the impact of business advice (coaching), supported by the UK Government. The Growth Impact Pilot will assess whether the provision of Growth Accelerator coaching is the reason why firms on the service achieve high rates of growth, or whether this growth would have happened anyway. It is designed to assess the impact of coaching by comparing two groups:</p> <p>Group 1: who receive a matched funding grant to spend on leadership and management training.<br /> Group 2: who receive a leadership and management grant AND specialist business coaching services.</p> <p> Once recruited, businesses will be divided into one of the two groups by a process of random selection. By comparing the performance of the two groups, it will be possible to identify whether coaching really makes a difference for the assisted businesses. We anticipate that the average intervention will be completed within 4-6 months. It may take several years for the economic impact of the trial to emerge, but monitoring and evaluation will be undertaken at earlier stages. </p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links 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 Does the provision of Growth Accelerator coaching is the reason why firms on the service achieve high rates of growth, or whether this growth would have happened anyway? Sample Trial population and sample selection Businesses need to have turnover between £250,000 and £2 million, and employ between 1 and 249 employees Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The study explores the impact of the business advice coaching by randomising whether firms receive funding alone or complement it with coaching. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Turnover, Employment, Gross Value Added, range of behavioural indicators on management skills and practices</p> Results <p>Pending</p> Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Phipps, J., Watkins, G., Johnson, A., Khan, K. (forthcoming). 'Growth Impact Pilot'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
