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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Our national infrastructure - the systems of infrastructure networks (e.g. energy, water, transport, waste, ICT) that support services such as healthcare, education, emergency response and thereby ensure our social, econ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
The project discusses infrastructure challenges and proposes innovative business models, but does not directly address the impact of local infrastructure investments on economic performance.
The research is seeking to understand the implications of transport investments for the spatial economy by identifying effects on workers and firms (e.g. productivity, employment, wages). The research will provide the fi...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project directly investigates the implications of transport investments for the spatial economy, including effects on productivity, employment, and wages.
Infrastructure provides the backbone of modern societies. In our daily lives, we depend on supplies of water and energy, road, rail and other transport networks, communication networks, and waste disposal and recycling, ...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Science and Technology Facilities Council
The project discusses the impact of infrastructure on society and the environment, but does not directly address the impact of local infrastructure investments on economic performance.