LOCAL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIPS –

SUPPORTING GROWTH

NEN CONFERENCE27 November 2015

Jo Lappin

GROWTH HUB DEVELOPMENT

• Profile – greater brand recognition

• Penetration – reaching far more companies

• Product – extending the range of activity

• Performance management – robust framework to measure success

PRODUCTIVITY

DRIVERS OF PRODUCTIVITY

• Innovation

• Investment

• Skills

•Competitiveness

• Enterprise

SMART RESOURCING

• European Structural and Investment Fund – match funding national and local funding

• Spending Review – £24million funding across 2016/17 and 2017/18.

• Local Growth Fund –bending future funding towards wider drivers of productivity

• Commissioning Approach – co-ordinating activity of all delivery partners

DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES

• Productivity – are products and services really addressing this?

• Macro or micro – will activity really move forward the economy?

• Systemic or tactical – is this creating a sustainable and scalable proposition or short term funding led responses?