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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.
Three things that Andrea Leadsom should know to address the UK’s productivity problem
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.
Why ‘place’ matters when thinking about productivity
What role does 'place' have when developing a local industrial strategy?
R-AMP it Up! What does Sheffield City Region’s Advanced Manufacturing Park tell us about cities and the 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.
What the West Midlands’ local industrial strategy means for other places
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
What role have the creative industries got in any economic strategy?
The creative industries are often seen as a way to regenerate economies, but the rationale behind this is confused
The Evolving Economic Performance of Britain’s Cities
A conference to launch the findings of an expansive and unique historical dataset with University of Cambridge and supported by the ESRC
Fast Growth Cities: Why one size rarely fits all in urban policy making
We examine why a one-size-fits-all approach to solving cities’ challenges does not work
Optimised for Success
We are working with the Fast Growth Cities Group to host a high level event to discuss how to harness their growth for the good of the whole national economy.