A one-year briefing for economic development practitioners: what's funded, what's live to bid for, and what a change of Prime...Continue reading
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Making Things Again: Can Reindustrialisation work?
Introduction In the 1980s, the UK agonised over whether it mattered if an advanced economy manufactured less, and announcements of...Continue reading
SMRs: A Silver Bullet for Post-Industrial Regional Economies?
Introduction Western economies are starting to wobble in their determination to deliver low-carbon energy systems in line with their original...Continue reading
Plan First. Consult Better.
Stakeholder engagement is rarely questioned in economic development. It appears in every strategy, every funding bid, every business case. The...Continue reading
Unmanned Systems
A once-in-a-generation shift in UK defence spending is creating substantial new procurement and investment opportunities across the unmanned vehicles sector....Continue reading
The Power of Proof: Why Economic and Social Impact Assessments are Strategic Essentials
In the competitive world of economic development, claims of "growth," "innovation," and "regeneration" are common. Every new development promises jobs,...Continue reading
Sharing rather than burying failure
I often think that if all the claimed outputs from economic development initiatives and regeneration projects across the UK were...Continue reading
Go Big or Go Home? – Revisiting Investment Promotion
In 1984, the most totemic inward investment of recent times was announced in the UK with the unveiling of Nissan’s...Continue reading
The Defence Sector needs Guns and Roses
If you have taken a look at your sector base and decided that defence is for somewhere else that has...Continue reading
New Year Priority – Inclusivity or Productivity
Introduction The mainstream narrative about the UK economy seems to have settled on the view that investment has been low,...Continue reading