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:
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 focuses on how cities have differed in their ability to reorientate and transform their economic structures, which is directly related to the question about factors that create agglomeration economies.
This study will encourage a more informed debate about the territorial shape of the UK economy and the contribution of city regions to national economic competitiveness. There is growing research and policy interest in t...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Liverpool John Moores University
The project analyzes the economic contribution of different kinds of cities to national and international economic competitiveness, which partially addresses the question about factors that bring agglomeration benefits.
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 focuses on regional competitiveness and rebalancing the UK economy, which is not directly related to the question about factors that create agglomeration economies.