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Over the past years, a large number of public or public-private initiatives have emerged around SMEs and digitalisation. There is little overview at both regional and national level regarding the coherence, focus, and impact of these initiatives. This makes it difficult for policymakers to identify policy instruments with impact, spot gaps, and for digitalisation initiatives to position themselves in the ecosystem. Additionally, SMEs sometimes struggle to see the forest for the trees. The Regioscan Digitalisation provides an overview, allows for the identification of best practices, enables more targeted sharing of knowledge and experience, and can give a future boost to scaling up and rolling out effective interventions.
In the first half of 2022, a pilot for developing a Regioscan was set up by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Dialogic, and Platform Talent for Technology. This was done in close collaboration with the Northern Netherlands region (Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe), which shares the ambition to further develop the ecosystem around digitalisation and SMEs (Northern Digital). Following a successful pilot, it was decided in the IPO to implement the Regioscan in all provinces. The execution of this has taken place over the past months, with Platform Talent for Technology, Dialogic, and the provinces collaborating on this. In this report, a nationwide synthesis of the results of the Regioscan Digitalisation SMEs is presented.
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