Centre for Cities' latest report shows where the UK’s 344 innovation hotspots are across the country and their potential to address the UK’s sluggish productivity growth.
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City Talks: Giles Wilkes on designing a successful industrial strategyThe Institute for Government's Giles Wilkes on the dos and don'ts of developing a successful industrial strategy.
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City Talks: Tim Bartik on making sense of incentivesDo financial incentives make any difference? Economic development expert Tim Bartik joins Andrew Carter to debunk the biggest assumptions made by policymakers in this field.
Addressing the underperformance of big cities and city centres should be at the top of Andrea Leadsom’s priorities to deal with the UK’s lagging productivity.
What role does 'place' have when developing a local industrial strategy?
Encouraging innovation should be central to the Government’s Industrial Strategy. But who should foot the bill for interventions in innovation? This is a question highlighted in our recent work on the Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Park.
Many areas will no doubt look to the West Midlands’ newly published local industrial strategy as a template, but they must identify what the barriers to high productivity businesses are in their own areas if they are to be useful
The creative industries are often seen as a way to regenerate economies, but the rationale behind this is confused
A conference to launch the findings of an expansive and unique historical dataset with University of Cambridge and supported by the ESRC
We examine why a one-size-fits-all approach to solving cities’ challenges does not work