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:
Northern Ireland (NI) has a long history of lagging behind other regions in the UK across a range of economic performance indicators, most notably in terms of productivity, with NI estimated to be 17% less productive tha...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Ulster
Partially relevant as it focuses on skills development and innovation in Northern Ireland, but does not directly address institutional capacity and capability.