LED Confidential
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Podcast about local economic development and placemaking. Co-hosted by Mike Spicer of PolicyDepartment and David Marlow of Third Life Economics. Mike, David and guests address the divisive, often unspoken issues facing economic development professionals in 2020s Britain.
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UK Budget 2025: is fiscal devolution finally here?
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Can the Oxford-Cambridge corridor become Europe’s Silicon Valley?
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Liquid assets: rethinking water’s role in economic development and placemaking
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Rethinking post-16 education for local economies in England?
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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New Towns, new rules: reimagining growth for the 2030s?
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Reorganising Local Government in England: 17 proposals, 56 councils -zero consensus?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Pride In Place Programme: promise or patchwork?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Total Place 2.0 and the politics of belonging
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Is economic inactivity now the UK's biggest growth challenge?
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Sep 26, 2025 |
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Political instability, organisational churn, and the rise of hyper-localism—how LED practitioners are adapting in uncertain times
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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After the ministerial shake-up at MHCLG: what’s next for Local Economic Development in the UK?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Summer reflections: blue sky thinking for place leaders
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Health meets place: the NHS 10-Year Plan and local economic development
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Aug 01, 2025 |
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Place before sectors? Rethinking UK industrial strategy with Paul Swinney
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Infrastructure or illusion? Assessing the UK’s new 10-Year National Infrastructure Strategy
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Happiness rankings: insightful or irrelevant for placemaking?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Feeding the future: rethinking local economies through the foundational lens
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Water and place: threat, opportunity or both?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Spending Review 2025: A turning point for local economic development?
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Jun 20, 2025 |
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Joining the dots: universities, policy, and place-based impact with Sarah Chaytor
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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What does the rise of the Reform Party mean for economic development and placemaking in the UK?
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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What do the May 2025 local election results mean for English devolution?
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May 30, 2025 |
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Power cuts and cyber attacks - economic development in the age of perma-crisis
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May 23, 2025 |
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Can Innovation Districts and Knowledge Quarters deliver genuinely inclusive growth?
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May 16, 2025 |
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What can local leaders do when faced with a major site closure like British Steel?
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May 08, 2025 |
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Trump, tariffs, and local economic development
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May 01, 2025 |
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Transforming place-based growth with Mayoral Combined Authorities: insights from NECA CEO Henry Kippin
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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St Helena Airport: South Atlantic lessons for the UK's local economies
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Does the UK's Plan for Neighbourhoods mark a change in policy direction or repackage the status quo?
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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How to be an effective place champion: lessons in tech-led economic development from Cambridge Ahead
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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How will a surge in defence spending affect local economic development in the UK?
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Putting the ‘local’ in local government
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Should your Local Growth Plan include an AI Growth Zone?
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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How can local government balance economic growth and environmental goals?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Decoding Rachel Reeves growth plan for local economic development in the UK
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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How to empower local communities through inclusive innovation and participatory democracy?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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What's going wrong with the UK's economic and labour market statistics?
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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What next for fiscal devolution in the UK?
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Is bigger always better for local government reorganisations?
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Hopes and fears for UK local economic development in 2025
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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Creating ‘healthy’ local economies and communities
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Will the Get Britain Working White Paper get your place working?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Facing the storm: Jack Shaw on England's Local Authority financial crisis
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Should Mayoral Combined Authorities run public services?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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Making the UK's Industrial Strategy work for places
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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What did Autumn Budget 2024 do for local economic development in the UK?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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Spatial rebalancing with Henry Overman - Econ 101 for local growth
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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What now for the New Towns Taskforce?
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Attracting SMR investments: lessons from South Yorkshire
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Do local deal decisions reveal the UK Government's devolution approach?
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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The return of spatial strategic planning to England
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Re-imagining local infrastructure delivery in the UK
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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What the English Devolution Bill means for local economic development across the UK
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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What you need to know about Local Growth Plans
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Medellin's urban transformation miracle
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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What a change in government means for economic development in the UK
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Putting universities in their place
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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UK General Election Special - 2024
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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How to fix the UK's high streets
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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What do rising economic inactivity rates mean for the UK's local economies?
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May 24, 2024 |
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The case for revisiting local development strategies ahead of the UK General Election
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May 16, 2024 |
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What do local election results mean for economic development?
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May 09, 2024 |
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What does the evidence say about poverty in the UK?
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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What are Labour’s proposals for local economic development?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Will PAC's latest report fix Levelling Up funding?
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The puzzles and priorities of place: in conversation with Professor Philip McCann
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Will the UK Government’s Local Transport Fund announcements put the North and Midlands back on the fast track to growth?
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Long-term plan for housing or a muddled hotchpotch?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Is ‘Total Place’ a concept whose time has finally come?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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How to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals into local economic strategies
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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If we were Chancellor for a day...LEDC’s Budget 2024
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Cities Outlook 2024 and how to use think tank research better
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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What’s going on with the Public Works Loan Board?
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Mayor Paul Dennett shares the 'Salford Way' of city transformation
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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2023 - the good, the bad, and the ugly from the year in local economic development
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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St Helena Uncovered: Insights on economic development and placemaking from the most remote community in the world
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Autumn Statement 2023 and local economic development
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Tom Forth - using innovations in data to better understand places
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Business networks and local economic development
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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October 23: Levelling Up & Regeneration Act, the UK's latest National Infrastructure Assessment, and 4-Day Week Trials
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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What HS2 cuts, bus franchising, and Birmingham City Council's bankruptcy means for LED in the UK
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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What comes after Local Enterprise Partnerships?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Growth lessons from the Women's World Cup, Oppenheimer, and...chess tables?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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England's devolution dilemmas: time to reboot?
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Solving England's house building crisis, Gigafactory investments, and the Tony Blair Institute's agenda for a tech revolution
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Rising inequality and the UK economic crisis: in dialogue with Professor Danny Dorling
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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UK Shared Prosperity Fund woes, inflation and the impact of relocations on civil service jobs and behaviours
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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From LED to CEO: Navigating the path to career success in local economic development
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Local solutions to failing national policies? Local economic development in May 2023
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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From books to boom: the potential of universities to transform local economies
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May 24, 2023 |
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Power dynamics and partnership building: local economic development in April 2023
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May 11, 2023 |
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Designing successful economic zones. All about Investment Zones, Enterprise Zones, Opportunity Zones, Freeports...
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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What the UK's 2023 Spring Budget means for local economic development
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Permacrisis...what permacrisis?
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Missions, Local Government Finance, and Green Economy culture wars
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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London 2012 Olympics - the epic journey to transform a city
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Jan 2023 - the month in UK economic development
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Reviewing local economic development in 2022 - turning point or year to forget?
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Can devolution save local economic development from a UK government in turmoil?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Where next for local economic development under new UK PM Liz Truss?
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Does the design of funding mechanisms like UKSPF influence economic development?
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Is local economic development always about politics?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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What makes a great economic development organisation?
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May 08, 2022 |
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The story or the evidence? Which is more important to placemaking?
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Trailer
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Apr 06, 2022 |