Tag Archives: local industrial policy

Are we in the autumn of local economic development?

By , Tuesday, 25 October 2011, 1 Comment

I do not recall Regeneration and Renewal (or Planning for that matter) celebrating great musical performance. However, I like to take at least one long walk per week, listening to my MP3 on shuffle/random mode. With the clocks going back next weekend, and the first frosts of the season upon us, it was entirely appropriate that my MP3 picked out ‘Autumn Leaves’ and the particularly beautiful version sung by Eva Cassidy on her 1996 ‘Live at Blues Alley’ album. And I do wonder and worry whether, with government’s approach to local economic growth, we are now in the autumn of local economic development as we knew it.

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Towards an industrial policy for local economies

By , Monday, 17 October 2011, 3 Comments

Local economic leadership teams need a local industrial policy. This case, and how to set about achieving it, is likely to be at the forefront of a workshop – ‘Delivering Local Policies for Manufacturing’ – hosted by the institute for Manufacturing (IfM) at Cambridge University this week[1]. With bold leadership and sustained commitment a credible industrial strategy can be formulated, agreeed and can deliver economic growth in local economies.

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