Ideopolis Reports and Papers

Commissioned papers


November 2009

City Relationships: Economic linkages in Northern city regions

January 2009

Changing Relationships at Work

February 2008 

Transforming North Staffordshire - Overview

Transforming North Staffordshire - Executive Summary

Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper A: The Changing Economy

Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper B: Key Issues for North Staffordshire

Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper C: Action Planning Group Recommendations

Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper D — Detailed Recommendations

Transforming North Staffordshire Evidence Paper E: The Work Foundation’s Approach

October 2007

Priorities for Sheffield City Region in the Knowledge Economy


 

Working Papers

July 2009

Recession and Recovery: How UK cities can respond and drive the recovery

Financial Services, the Middle Classes and the South: What explains the geography of the recession?

February 2009

The Geography of Unemployment

December 2008

Embedding Universities in Knowledge Cities

September 2008

A Council of Perfection? Ideopolis Leadership Working Paper 1

May 2008

Can Collaboration Help Places Respond to the Changing Economy? 

Collaboration Case Studies  (pdf 658kb)

March 2008

What Cities and Policymakers Can Learn From Endogenous Growth and the New Economic Geography

January 2008

Enterprise Priorities to Enterprise Powerhouses: The Public Sector in the Knowledge Economy

October 2007

Distinctiveness and Cities - Beyond 'Find and Replace' Economic Development

 

 

Ideopolis Phase 1 and 2 Programme Reports

 

July 2008 - Phase 2

The report  How Can Cities Thrive in the Changing Economy  marked the completion of the second phase of the Ideopolis project

April 2006 - Phase 1

Ideopolis: Knowledge City-Regions - Full Report

Ideopolis : Knowledge City-Regions - Executive Summary

As part of phase 1 of the project we conducted UK and international case studies of the following cities:

UK case studies

Birmingham

Manchester

Brighton                     

Newcastle                                

Bristol

Norwich                             

Cambridge

Sheffield

Edinburgh

Watford     

Glasgow

 

International case studies

  Boston

  Lisbon

  Dublin

  Munich