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THE EUROPEAN FUTURES OBSERVATORY |
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The Suffolk Small Business Project |
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This project was undertaken in conjunction with The Greenways Partnership, our consulting arm, who took the lead in the project. It was a deductive scenario project looking at four possible futures for the small business community in the English county of Suffolk out to the year 2020.
The purpose of the project was to help to start a process by which the Small Business Community in Suffolk could engage with its future. We aimed to provide a tool which the small business community could use to undertake long-term planning. The project was sponsored by The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and the Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business Association, for whose support we are grateful.
Please click on the links to access: An outline of what the project was seeking to achieve and how the project intended to proceed. - The 2004 SME Survey. (Link to follow) - A review of the economic models affecting the small business sector. (Link to follow) A review of the Lifestyle Tribes in Suffolk. A description of the twelve Lifestyle Tribes present in Suffolk, how they have changed 1981-2001, and how they may develop to 2020. A set of analytical scenarios that examine four possible courses of development of the Small Business Sector in Suffolk to 2020.
If you have any queries about the project, or if you would like to make any comments about it, please feel free to contact me by e-mail at stephena@eufo.org.
Stephen Aguilar-Millan Director of Research March 2008.
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