Appendix 3 GLASGOW CITY DEAL ‘TOWARDS A CITY-REGION ENTERPRISE AND JOBS HUB’ ENTERPRISE PORTFOLIO RESEARCH FINAL REPORT SMART CONSULTANCY JUNE 2016 1 Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................ 4 Introduction and background ................................................................................................................ 7 PART 1 – THE CASE FOR CHANGE ......................................................................................................... 11 1.1 City Regions – evidence and policy trends ................................................................................ 11 The Scottish Government review of enterprise agencies ........................................................... 11 Scottish Government manifesto commitments .......................................................................... 12 Scottish Cities Alliance ‘Empowering Scotland’s Cities – Empowering City Government’ ........ 12 Responding to the city-region context ........................................................................................ 13 1.2 Current enterprise support arrangements ................................................................................ 14 Summary of service mapping returns received to date .............................................................. 14 Conclusions on current provision ................................................................................................ 15 1.3 Learning from elsewhere ........................................................................................................... 17 Greater Manchester ..................................................................................................................... 17 1.4 The appetite for change ............................................................................................................. 20 Local authority leadership consensus.......................................................................................... 20 Wider stakeholders ...................................................................................................................... 21 PART 2 - NEW APPROACHES TO CITY REGION FOCUSED ENTERPRISE, EMPLOYABILITY AND SKILLS DELIVERY ............................................................................................................................................... 23 2.1 Towards a Glasgow City-Region Enterprise and Jobs Hub ........................................................ 23 Early action areas ......................................................................................................................... 24 Moving forward ............................................................................................................................ 26 Delivery and resources ................................................................................................................. 27 2.2 Fit with related developments................................................................................................... 28 2.3 Governance and partnership arrangements ............................................................................. 29 Interim report observations and recent related developments ................................................. 29 Suggested governance and partnership developments ............................................................. 29 City Region Distributive Leadership model ................................................................................. 30 2 2.4 Performance Indicators .............................................................................................................. 31 SLAED indicators and Scottish Enterprise KPIs ............................................................................ 31 Other indicators............................................................................................................................ 32 2.5 Practical considerations and timescales .................................................................................... 34 Practical considerations ............................................................................................................... 34 Timescales .................................................................................................................................... 35 2.6 Suggested Next Steps ................................................................................................................. 36 APPENDIX 1 – ENTERPRISE SERVICE MAP ........................................................................................... 37 Local Authorities............................................................................................................................... 38 Key national delivery agencies ........................................................................................................ 40 Higher and Further Education Institutions ...................................................................................... 42 Employer intermediary organsiations ............................................................................................. 44 Third sector organisations ............................................................................................................... 45 Procurement focused interventions ................................................................................................ 47 Miscellaneous ................................................................................................................................... 48 APPENDIX 2 – CONSULTEES ................................................................................................................. 49 3 Executive Summary This report represents the second and final output of research commissioned by the Glasgow City Deal Cabinet to support its enterprise portfolio. This is led on behalf of the Cabinet by Councillor Mark Macmillan of Renfrewshire Council. The research was tasked with reviewing the implications opportunities for future support to businesses from the City Deal agreement, ensuring collective approaches recognised and maximised the opportunities from the major infrastructure investment and governance changes the Deal triggered. The case for change The research process was undertaken in two phases. The initial report in February 2016: reviewed the wider policy context within which developments were taking place at Scottish, UK, European and worldwide levels; summarised the economic development case for taking more of a city-region focus to enterprise service delivery and governance; mapped existing interventions provided by a range of partner agencies across the city-region; and identified some practice from elsewhere that may be of interest in considering future developments. Part 1 of this second report details the ‘case for change’ in terms of future city-region support to enterprise. This notes some key wider messages from across the world which now highlight: the importance of city-regions as the drivers of economic growth and success; a future environment where the key competition will be between global cities; and the need to recognise and ensure that success for the city-region is reflected in all of its constituent areas. The current significance of this agenda is reinforced by four key context developments which have taken place since the interim report was produced: • the Scottish Government’s current review of enterprise agencies which will include consideration on the role of regional approaches • the new Scottish Government’s commitment to establish Regional Economic Partnerships and Forums • a major new report by the Scottish Cities Alliance calling for a ‘New Deal’ for Scotland’s cities - including further devolution of enterprise related activities • the referendum vote for the UK to leave the European Union, which is likely to have very significant implications for the future economic development of city-regions The research process involved looking at practice in other cities. Greater Manchester was identified as providing most direct and immediate learning for Glasgow, and although some of the context is different, the Manchester experience has informed some of this report’s recommendations. In addition to the case for change, the research report also sought to identify the appetite for change in terms of the ambition and pace of new developments to support enterprise. This 4 was primarily tested at senior level within the city-region’s 8 local authorities, although some wider partner perspectives were gathered. For the Councils, it was apparent that a significant consensus now existed to quickly move forward ambitious new city-region focused developments. Research, good practice and consultations highlighted that the case for future city-region action on enterprise was also largely replicated in terms of the employability and skills agenda. Moreover, practically connecting these interventions would be central to the City- Region realising its growth and jobs targets. As a consequence, the report suggests that the City-Region Cabinet should now seek to connect and integrate future action across all of these areas. A new approach to city-region focused enterprise, employability and skills delivery Based on the case and appetite for change, section 2 of the report suggests future actions the City-Region Cabinet should now advance.