This briefing examines the limited economic benefit that enterprise zones have had five years on from their establishment.
What's the relationship between urban economies and housing wealth in England and Wales?
How can policymakers foster business innovation within local and national industrial strategy? This report sets out lessons from Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Park, which is helping to transform the city region from a place of low-cost production to one of high-value knowledge output
As Britain prepares to leave the EU, our new trade report finds that services make up the majority of all city exports and examines how a goods-only customs arrangement might affect jobs and prosperity
Join us for this City Horizons event on Professor Smith's book Cities: the first 6,000 years.
The launch of our latest research
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A new academic paper claims that cities make businesses no more productive than other parts of the country. But is it all that is seems?
Although free ports are touted by Boris Johnson as a way to bring jobs to struggling areas, lessons from enterprise zones suggest otherwise
In our July 2019 City Horizons event, speakers discussed their new book, 'Britain Beyond Brexit'
In this episode of City Talks, Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Michael Parkinson to discuss Liverpool's economic, social and political regeneration.
Find out what cities are doing to promote inclusive growth using our case study library.
How cities in the UK and beyond are making the most of their policymaking and fiscal powers
The 'long tail' of low productivity firms will not be answer to the productivity puzzle, instead the focus should be on the firms that export goods and services locally and beyond.
The second in our briefing series looks at the geography of the UK economy and why this matters for the industrial strategy.
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