every city, region and local area is different – we listen, we learn and we custom-build economic strategies
strategy & delivery
We love learning about new places, and how places we know have changed. We are skilled in listening, understanding, and differentiating city, region and local economies. We specialise in building unique local, “bottom-up” economic strategies that also play into national policies and funding conversations.
Regional economic growth and recovery strategy
Leicester and Leicestershire Economic Growth Strategy 2021-2030
We worked with local stakeholders and board members to produce an economic strategy for Leicester and Leicestershire that ingrained local character, history and progress – putting local identity and ideas throughout the final strategy document. This was also made relevant to existing and emerging government policy themes such as levelling up, build back better, innovation and trade.
A strategy to kickstart the UK Innovation Corridor
We managed and facilitated a nine-month Growth Commission and created an ambitious strategy for change
Nine Growth Commissioners, four inquiry events, piles of evidence, international experts and case studies… we collated, put together and analysed a high quality evidence base and produced a high-impact stratetgy that was a game-changer for the London Stansted Cambridge Corridor. This provided the roadmap and priorities for the next evolution of the initiative into the UK Innovation Corridor.
Growth industries and SMEs strategy
Stockton-on-Tees
We researched the Stockton-on-Tees company base and industrial specialisms in depth and explored options for growth business and industry strategy and delivery using the latest academic and business research on scale-ups, entrepreneurship and enteprise support.
A New Innovation Agency for Wales
Expert advisor to the Welsh Government on innovation policy and suport
Working with CM International, and the University of Cardiff, an expert team reviewed innovation needs and policy options to inform the development of a proposed new agency by the Innovation Advisory Council for Wales.
Skills strategy
Ambition Southend
We researched, consulted and wrote an ambitious new Skills Strategy for Southend-on-Sea. This was very much a bottom-up, locally specific strategy that used the latest economic evidence and research on changing skills needs, and also involved in-depth consultations with major employers, schools, public service providers, careers organisations and colleges.
Local economic strategy
New economic strategy for Gloucester
A highly tailored economic strategy for Gloucester was devised to take advantage of its strategic location, and successful business and industrial parks – whilst addressing the skills needs and deprivation of some of its inner city areas.
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