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Over the past few years, a large number of public or public-private initiatives have emerged around SMEs and digitalisation. There is little overview at regional and national levels regarding the coherence, focus, and impact of these initiatives. This makes it difficult for policymakers to identify impactful policy instruments, spot white spots, and for digitalisation initiatives to position themselves in the ecosystem. Additionally, SMEs sometimes struggle to see the bigger picture. The Region Scan Digitalisation provides an overview, enables the identification of best practices, allows for more targeted sharing of knowledge and experience, and can provide a future boost to scaling up and rolling out effective interventions.
In the first half of 2022, a pilot for developing a Regional Scan was set up by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Dialogic, and Platform Talent for Technology in close collaboration with the Northern Netherlands region (Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe), where there is a shared ambition to further develop the ecosystem around digitalisation and SMEs (Noorden Digitaal). After a successful pilot, the decision was made within the Interprovincial Consultative Body (IPO) to conduct the Regional Scan in all provinces. In recent months, this implementation has taken place. The implementation has been carried out in cooperation with Platform Talent for Technology, Dialogic, and the provinces. In this report, we present a national synthesis of the results of the Regional Scan Digitalisation SMEs.
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