This section sets out the key areas where we want to deepen our understanding to drive the levelling up agenda, and to unleash opportunity, prosperity and pride in place across the UK. In addition, we want to understand in more granular detail which interventions best drive local growth (local growth is an area of joint responsibility between BEIS and DLUHC).
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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 partially answers the question as it focuses on regional competitiveness and rebalancing the UK economy, but does not specifically address the factors or characteristics that make some areas perform better than others at different spatial scales.
Over the past few years, cities and city-regions have assumed growing prominence in discussions over economic growth and performance. Both geographers and economists point to the increasing concentration of economic acti...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
The project fully answers the question as it explores how cities differ in their ability to reorientate and transform their economic structures, and how those differences influence the comparative growth paths of cities.
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 does not answer the question as it focuses on spatial disparities and economic development in the UK and China, but does not specifically address the factors or characteristics that make some areas perform better than others at different spatial scales.