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  • Downloads and other digital products: do consumer rights apply?

    Research report for the department that analyses whether current consumer protection legislation applies to digital products, primarily downloads…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Bureaucracy Reduction Group: Report for August 2009 - July 2010

    Annual report for the Bureaucracy Reduction Group (BRG) for August 2009 to July 2010. BRG works to tackle bureaucracy and reduce unnecessary…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Modernising communications at Aspect: a Union Modernisation Fund project

    Case study on individual Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) round two project. Evaluates Aspect’s website development project, which aimed to strengthen…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Vulnerability and bad treatment at work

    Examines what makes employees vulnerable to bad treatment. Employment Relations Research Series number 112.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Employment Relations Research Series
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Survey on the effectiveness of the pay and work rights helpline

    Employment Relations Research Series no 113.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Employment Relations Research Series
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Improved online access to services at BECTU: a Union Modernisation Fund project

    Case study on individual Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) round two project. The Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • International review of leave policies and related research 2010

    This review outlines leave entitlements, mainly for workers with dependant children. Employment Relations Research Series number 115.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Employment Relations Research Series
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Union's migrant workers participation project: a Union Modernisation Fund project

    Case study on individual Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) round two project. Its aims included proportional participation by migrant workers in…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • EU research and technological development framework: impact on the UK

    Study undertaken by Technopolis Ltd for BIS. Investigates the impacts and leverage effects of the European programme for research and technological…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Saving the Royal Mail's universal postal service in the digital age

    An update of the 2008 independent review of the postal services sector.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Economics of standardisation: update to report

    Update to the report on the economics of standardization (URN 00/1694). Focuses on new issues that have emerged in the last ten years, particularly…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Accessibility for disabled customers: business benefits

    Report for BIS that sets out the economic and business case for business to be more inclusive. Provides examples of small businesses that have…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Factors affecting business success

    Report for BIS from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) that seeks to identify the key drivers of business success…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • The economic rationale for a national design policy

    BIS occasional paper number 2.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: BIS occasional papers
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Skills account trials: evaluation of universal, IES and level 3 trials

    Report providing an initial evaluation of specific aspects of skills accounts trials in various UK regions.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: BIS monitoring and evaluation
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Using evaluation to inform decisions about policy

    Explains how the department will enhance the evaluations of its policies and ensure results and lessons learnt are integrated into policy making…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • What businesses are doing to influence consumer demand for low-carbon goods and services

    Report for BIS on research that aimed was to understand what drivers are behind business actions to encourage the take up of low-carbon products…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Low carbon environmental goods and services 2008/09: underlying data

    Underlying data for low carbon and environmental goods and services industry analysis 2008/09 that relates to the report URN 10/795. Provides…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Appointing equality representatives at Amicus: a Union Modernisation Fund project

    Case study on individual Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) round two project. It aimed increase representation of minority groups by facilitating…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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  • Appointing union representatives at HBOS: a Union Modernisation Fund project

    Case study on individual Union Modernisation Fund (UMF) round two project. Aimed to provide a partnership training programme focused on ensuring…

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
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