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The Long And Winding Road**

Posted on Wednesday 16 February 2022 by Max Nathan

I haven’t read the Levelling Up White Paper yet but I’m going to talk about it anyway.I haven’t read it yet because it’s very long, I’m quite busy with other things right now — it’s a busy teaching term — and because many smart people have read and sum…

Cities, economic-development, local-government, urban planning

Design principles for local industrial strategy

Posted on Thursday 14 March 2019 by Max Nathan

Design principles for a West Midlands local industrial strategyHere’s something I wrote for the 2018 Birmingham Economic Review, produced by my colleagues at City-REDI.In the UK, like many other countries, industrial strategy has been back on the polic…

economic-development, industrial-strategy, innovation, local-government, what-works