Main Areas of DTI Economic Research

Strategy Policy Analysis Unit

The Strategy Policy Analysis Unit manages the cross-cutting research budget, which finances projects cutting across all DTI areas. The Unit is also responsible for the DTI Research Strategy (88Kb). 

Consumer and Competition Policy

The Consumer and Competition Policy (CCP) site contains all the publications of CCP.

Innovation
See the Succeeding through innovation page.

Employment Relations
Employment Market Analysis and Research (EMAR) is a multidisciplinary team of economists, social researchers and statisticians based in the Employment Relations Directorate of DTI.

Our role is to provide the evidence base for good policy making in employment relations, labour market and equality and discrimination at work. We do this through:

·        Conducting periodic socio-economic benchmark surveys

·        Commissioning external research projects and reports

·        Conducting in-house research and analysis

·        Assessing the regulatory impact of new employment laws and programmes

·        Monitoring and evaluating of the impact of government policies

The DTI Employment Relations Research Series and other EMAR publications may be downloaded from the Employment Relations area.

Women and Equality

The Women and Equality site contains high quality and reliable research making a vital contribution to achieving the aims of the Women and Equality Unit and to improving Government policies for women. 

Energy and Environment 

The Energy and Environment Research Programme seeks to inform the DTI's position regarding proposed energy and environmental policies, in particular by assessing their potential impact on industry. Project reports, including for those projects which contributed towards the analysis for the Energy White Paper (published in February 2003) can be downloaded or ordered through the Programme's homepage.

Business Support

The research undertaken in this area is mostly evaluation of DTI Business Support projects.

Skills

Research on skills can be found on the training and development publications page. More research on skills can be found on the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) web site.  

Small Business Service

The Small Business Service (SBS) site provides research into Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Social Exclusion. As part of the SBS’s commitment to communicate relevant research findings on SMEs and entrepreneurship, reports are published and can be viewed via the link.

Low Pay Commission (LPC) 

The LPC commissions research projects to inform its work. Links to these can be found on their web site.

Office of Manpower Economics

The OME provides the secretariat to the Independent Pay Review Bodies, The Police Advisory England & Wales, and the Police Negotiating Boards and the Pharmacists' Review Panel. The OME web site provides links to each body and its respective reports. 

Last updated:  8 July 2005