an article by Steve Fothergill, Tony Gore and Peter Wells (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) published in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Volume 12 Issue 3 (November 2019)
Abstract
The UK government’s new Industrial Strategy could have a significant impact on the country’s regions and localities.
However, this has received little attention to date.
The analysis presented here examines the existing location of the sectors targeted by the first phase of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and the location of the RandD laboratories likely to be first in line for funding.
In focusing on an extremely narrow range of sectors, the Fund is likely to have limited impact on the UK’s persistent regional inequalities. The activities eligible for support account for relatively little of manufacturing or the rest of the economy and the basis of this targeting and its potential distributional consequences are spatially blind.
As such, it runs the risk of widening regional divides in prosperity.
JEL Classification: L52, O25, R11
Full text (PDF 22pp)
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