Sectors

Five markets we know from both sides.

HealthHow the same money could deliver more and better care.Where demand outgrows supply, and how a provider stands out.EducationHow the system could reach every child and teach each one better.Where families look for more, and how a private school or faculty earns its premium.ICT & digital infrastructureHow support could follow skills and adoption at home, not headcount.Where the market moves from hours to solutions, and which firms are worth backing.Manufacturing & exportersHow support could help domestic firms grow, not only bring new plants.Where domestic manufacturers can sell more, and what it takes to get there.Agri-foodHow farm support could raise what a hectare earns.Where land earns most, and who can capture the value.All sectorsOverview

Topics

Five questions that cut across every market.

SMEs & entrepreneurshipHow support could reach the small and mid-sized firms able to grow.Where domestic know-how sits, and which firms are worth backing.Competitiveness & investmentHow support could raise productivity, not only jobs.Where firms have underinvested, and what it takes to catch up.Public financeHow each dinar could be tied to a purpose, and pay to the value of work.Where the state will spend, and how to compete for it.Green & digital transitionHow carbon revenue and support could help firms measure and cut, not only pay.Where clean power and carbon data open a market, and who can serve it.Skills & labour marketsHow adults in work and out of it could keep learning what the economy needs.Where to find the people a plan needs, and how to train and keep them.All topicsOverview

Services

Economic analysis for governments, donors and international organisations: we diagnose sectors and public spending, design and cost programmes, and evaluate what they changed.Economic analysis for companies and investors: we size markets and plan entry, find and assess firms to buy, and model what a business is worth.

Sector & value-chain diagnosticsWhere a sector creates value, who leads it, and what holds it back.Public expenditure & functional reviewsWhere public money goes, what it achieves, and how the same budget could do more.Policy & programme designWhom a programme should reach, with what instrument, and how it will be judged.Cost-benefit & fiscal impactWhat a policy or project will cost, year by year, and what it returns.EvaluationWhat a programme changed, for whom, and what would have happened anyway.Market entry studiesHow large the market is, who buys, who competes and what it takes to win.Policy, regulatory & public-demand riskHow incentives, licences, rules and public spending move a business case.Market-entry programmesFrom a study to an operation on the ground: set-up, people, partners and first customers.Business plansA plan a board can approve and a lender or investor can fund.Target search & screeningWhich firms exist, who owns them, and which deserve a closer look.Due diligenceWhat a target’s business, clients and earnings really are, before the price is set.Financial models & valuationWhat a business or an investment is worth, and how it pays back under different scenarios.Surveys & primary dataThe evidence that does not exist yet, collected so that it can be trusted.Custom analytical & performance toolsModels, dashboards and indices, used every time a decision comes back.All servicesOverview

Service · For both sides

Surveys & primary data

The evidence that does not exist yet, collected so that it can be trusted.

Context

What it answers

Many questions cannot be answered from existing data: how firms train, what buyers need, how a programme was received, how many firms plan to invest. A survey or a panel can answer them, if it reaches the right respondents and asks questions they can answer.

  • Whom should we ask, and how many, for the answer to hold?
  • Which questions measure what we need, and which only invite polite answers?
  • How do we know that the data are right?

Evidence

How we work

Samples are drawn from business and other registers, so that results can be weighted to the population, and the mode, by telephone, face to face or online, is chosen to fit the respondents. Questionnaires are tested in a pilot before fieldwork; fieldwork, our own or a partner’s, is supervised with back-checks and quality controls, and where firms are involved, their answers are checked against their filed accounts. Panels follow the same firms over the years, and interviews and focus groups explain what the numbers show. Personal and firm data are handled under data protection law and reported anonymously.

Firm and household surveys · sampling from registers · telephone, face-to-face and online fieldwork · panels · interviews and focus groups · questionnaire design and piloting · data protection

Direction

What you get

A clean, documented dataset with weights and a codebook; tables and charts for the groups that matter; a methodological note; and, where needed, a dashboard. For panels, a profile of each firm that is updated every round.

What the tool looks like

Tracker

Fieldwork, stratum by stratum

Interviews completed against the sample

For institutions · Surveys & primary data

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Examples of our work

For institutionsSME Hub, Swiss development cooperation2025–26Lead consultant

Multi-year evaluation of a supplier development programme

A panel of manufacturing firms is visited on site every year, with owners and the heads of finance, production, sales and people, while the filed accounts of every firm in the programme are tracked alongside. Each co-financed tool is scored for whether it is still in use, and results are read against prices, local wages and sector employment.

All work

Earlier experience

Before Econominess, Nemanja Šormaz did work of this kind in the roles below.

2014–2022Project coordinator, project manager and team leader

Private-sector competitiveness programmes

A diagnostic of Serbia’s competitiveness by firm size, industry and region, built on the accounts of some 68,000 firms, trade in about 800 products and a survey of more than a thousand companies; then baselines of two private-sector programmes, and yearly assessments of a five-year value-chain programme that compared supported firms with firms it did not reach and checked what firms reported against their filed accounts.

2018–2025Project manager; point of contact and co-author

Measuring the sector and its support

A survey of nearly 800 firms in eight municipalities on local rules and inspections, and the research and monitoring of a five-year SME programme behind SME Compass: a baseline survey of some 900 firms, yearly assessments and an annual survey of about 1,500.

2018–2020Lead of the think tank’s team

Employers’ views across the region

Analysis of two editions of the regional business opinion survey of firms in the six Western Balkan economies, including what firms say about skills, training and hiring.

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The other side

Market entry, business plans, due diligence and valuation for companies and investors.Diagnostics, programme design, cost-benefit analysis and evaluation for institutions.

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Contact

Tell us the decision in front of you, and when you need it.

nemanja@econominess.rs

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