BEIS plans to boost productivity and improve lives by tackling society’s Grand Challenges in life sciences, artificial intelligence, automation and space. By investing in R&D and innovation, we will unleash potential and work towards making the UK a science superpower. To do this, BEIS needs research to better understand:
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This project aims to learn more about what drives the large and persistent productivity differences across regions in the UK. Despite their importance, the factors behind these spatial economic imbalances are still poorl...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Aston University
The project specifically focuses on understanding the drivers of regional productivity differences, which aligns with the question about place-based economic development and regions reliant on a single industrial employer.
Economic prosperity in the UK is very unevenly distributed across space. Tackling these persistent disparities is a key policy objective. Providing a rigorous understanding of the nature, extent, causes and consequences ...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project focuses on spatial economics and the factors that contribute to economic disparities, which is directly relevant to the question about place-based economic development.
The UK RDRF brings together a number of research strands funded under the DET, EPSRC and ESRC portfolios over the last decade to create a national facility to tackle the vexed question of regional competitiveness and reb...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project aims to tackle regional competitiveness and rebalance the UK economy, which is partially relevant to the question about place-based economic development.