SAC Research

The RuBIES project sought to provide solutions to improve access to pertinent business information and advice in the Northern Periphery region. The end-user groups to benefit from this project are all involved in the land based sector and included nature-based entrepreneurs in Finland, farmers in Scotland and agir-tourism businesses in Iceland. The project was implemented in four overlapping phases including:

1. A research phase that focused on understanding what information and advice land-based businesses use, where they source it and through which technologies they access it. This phase also identified how information and advice was supplied to these businesses and made recommendations for modernising this supply, taking account of end-user’s needs.  For a diagramitic overview of this phase of the project see the file below.
2. A design phase that created pilot solutions to facilitate better access to business information and advice.
3. A testing phase was used to test the pilot solutions with the end-user groups allowing the best, or most pertinent, solutions to be identified and further enhanced.
4. A state of the art technology watch was ongoing throughout the life of the project.  This ensured that the oproject provided tools which were not only appropriate for the existing technologies available but also considers innovative technologies that may be utilised in the peripheral regions in the future.

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