BEIS is striving to create fairer, inclusive and flexible workplaces so that everyone has the change to succeed, whilst balancing home and work life. We will unlock enterprise and cut burdens to help businesses start and grow, while reforming corporate governance and improving boardroom diversity. To that end, BEIS needs research to better understand the following:
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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 directly addresses the question by examining the nature, causes, and consequences of spatial disparities in the UK's economic performance, and proposes policy responses.
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 aims to understand the key determinants of spatial disparities in economic performance across regions in the UK, using novel data and analysis methods.
Both the UK (and EU) and China are characterised by wide spatial disparities. Policy makers in the UK (and EU) and China are seeking to develop new ways of understanding the role of such spatial inequalities in the proce...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
The project partially addresses the question by examining spatial disparities in the UK and China, but does not focus solely on the UK.