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Universities are often invoked as vital drivers of local economic growth, innovative technologies and businesses. However, as James Evans discusses their influence on local innovation may be overestimated in comparison to the role they play in organising and helping these businesses develop.
Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney is joined by Ant Breach, Associate Director, to discuss Centre for Cities’ new report, Climbing the Summit: Big cities in the UK and the G7. How...
The UK is an outlier among leading G7 nations as its largest cities outside the capital act as a drag on the economy rather than leading it. Equivalent cities in leading G7 economies France, Germany and the US are more productive than the rest of their respective countries and this is key to explaining why their national economies outstrip the UK.
Associate Director Anthony Breach and Director of Policy and Research Paul Swinney explore the role played by the largest cities outside London in the UK’s yawning prosperity gap with other G7 economies.
How do the UK's cities perform compared to counterparts in the G7?
The new East Midlands devolution deal marks new opportunities for Nottingham but the challenges remain around local authority finance.
Britain has a long history of looking to manufacturing as a tool to bring prosperity and ‘good’ jobs. From the late 1940s until the 1980s, nationalisation and even punitive taxes on service...
Chief Executive Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Neil Lee, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and author of Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits...
After the 2010 election the Coalition Government, and in particular the Conservative Prime Minister and Chancellor, quickly realised that as part of their plan for repairing the damage done by the...
Identifying both the causes and potential remedies for record increases in child poverty requires looking at the sub-national level.
