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I want to measure the impacts of my initiative on the economy… 
…by assessing its impact on supply

Aggregate indicator title

Company growth

Description

Change in factors that indicate growth of a company, because of involvement in a CS project

Domain

Economy

Qualitative/Quantitative

Quantitative & Qualitative

Primary/Secondary data

Primary data

Source of data

Project partners, participants 

Time series

Yes, ex-ante/ex-post survey 

Unit of measurement (observation)

Absolute values & nominal 

Unit of analysis

Organization 

Analytical level (logic model)

Context, input, output, outcome, impact 

Links with indicators in other domains

N/A 

Data collection method(s)

Questionnaire that was filled in by project partners twice to collect data about baseline and economic impacts of the COs 

Data collection item(s)
  • How many jobs are currently directly related to [CO topic] and enabling technologies?
  • What is the nature of these jobs? (junior, medior, senior position(s)) [nominal] 
  • How many of your products/services are relevant for the provision of COs?
  • What was your organization's annual turnover in [year]?
  • What is your organization's market share in the business of COs?
  • How many clients does your organization have in the CO business?
  • # subject-related jobs Nature of jobs
  • # of CO related products/services
  • Turnover
  • Market share in the business of Cos
  • # of clients in CO business and enabling technologies
Indicator building
  • Knowledge, skills, competences
  • Attitudes and values
  • Behaviour and ownership
  • Motivation and engagement
Availability of data

Low

Feasibility

Resource demanding 

Comments/caveats

This is part 1 of 4 re. CS supply side

Source of indicator definition

Wehn et al (2017; 2019; 2020)