On place-based economic development, what ingredients are needed? What matters most? We are thinking particularly about regions reliant on a single industrial employer.
Background
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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Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Topics
- economy, business and finance
- economic sector
- economic organisation
- labour
- employment
- child labour
- commuting
- parental leave
- volunteering
- wages and benefits
- social security
- labour market
- politics
- economic policy
- economic development incentive
- nationalisation
- privatisation
- state-owned enterprise
- society
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