Research reports

  1. Innovation by Adoption

    Innovation by Adoption

    This important new report shows the capacity cities and regions have to stimulate economic growth.

  2. UK Global Innovation

    UK Global Innovation

    Migration, ICT, and the entrance of new countries to the global knowledge economy are creating a new form of globalisation.

  3. History Matters: Path dependence and innovation in British city-regions

    History Matters: Path dependence and innovation in British city-regions

    Individual policy interventions are likely to have little impact on economic development if they do not take into account previous economic structures and their legacy.

  4. Rural innovation report

    Rural innovation report

    These Rural Innovation collection of essays examines the social, economic and technological changes that are affecting rural areas and what these changes mean for innovation.

  5. Leading innovation report

    Leading innovation report

    The innovation potential of the UK's 'ordinary regions' can only be unlocked through well-developed and realistic plans that play to their individual strengths.

  6. Innovation and the City report

    Innovation and the City report

    Innovation and the City explores the ways in which people, firms and organisations contribute to innovation within cities and presents two interlocking models for innovation in urban areas.