Economic development incentive
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- Where have bus services been a success (either in the UK or internationally) and why were they successful? How is it related to history, socio-economic and demographic factors, alternative travel modes and financial and other incentives?
- What incentives need to be put in place to ensure that the UK semiconductor industry remains competitive?
- What research techniques are most effective in evaluating how trade policy drives prosperity?
- What is the best/most appropriate indicator of financial health and sustainability of AHT organisations? At what point do AHT organisations become at risk and might require government intervention to secure their long term survival?
- Analyse the most significant factors that create barriers/risks to financial health for AHT organisations. What policy interventions can reduce financial risk for these organisations?
- Understand the full benefits of offshore renewables. To identify and mitigate their environmental impacts by establishing socio-economic evidence to provide information to influence marine policy and development decisions
- RDI outside of the Greater South East: How can the government boost RDI outside of the Greater South East to boost productivity, pay, jobs and living standards? Also, how can the UK attract RDI investment in these clusters from private actors?
- What enables UK space sector companies to thrive – and what stops them from thriving?
- AI sector: What are the key opportunities for HMG to intervene that will support the growth of the UK AI sector?
- Using regional and local studies, what is the impact of export finance services on localised markets? How does export finance services support regional growth and development?
- Analyse and explain the common features of organisations that are making the largest economic contribution within an AHT subsector (e.g. type, size, location of businesses). What lessons can be learnt to drive future growth policy?
- How can we promote efficiency and investment in the water sector and incentivise environmentally responsible behaviour from all branches of society?
- What is the impact of increased trade and investment on poverty reduction in developing countries?
- To what extent do international trade expos help build the reputation of the UK and its regional strengths as a destination for international projects?
- Which domestic policy levers can best address the externalities of trade reform, including impact on and adjustments costs to specific groups, sectors, and regions?
- How can we optimise the management of flood and coastal erosion infrastructure?
- We also need to look internationally: How does our domestic approach compare internationally? How does implementation differ between developing and developed countries?
- To what extent does the use of international standards particularly facilitate trade with developing, low and middle-income countries?
- What approaches will best empower rural communities to develop social, economic, and environmental interventions appropriate to their own local circumstances?
- How can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success?
- How can we assess the impact of the National Adaptation Programme and Adaptation Reporting Power on improving resilience?
- What conditions need to be in place for transport investments to transform local economies? These conditions may relate to demographic factors, complementary investments, or government policies for example. What are the micro mechanisms that underpin how workers move across space due to better transport connections?
- Optimisation of strategy and priority setting institutions and governance in the RDI system: Do we have the right institutional model for strategy and priority setting at all levels across the UK RDI system to deliver the ambitions of the Science and Technology framework?
- Assess and evaluate the most effective methods of measuring the impact of tourism marketing, to demonstrate its effectiveness and value for money.
- How do schools and colleges become more financially efficient over time? What are the drivers of that behaviour and how can it best be stimulated, supported and replicated?
- What can we learn from regimes where planning and regeneration powers have been devolved from central government towards regions and local stakeholders?
- What does international evidence tell us about effective combinations of government and devolved support for local growth? How important is this in tackling productivity differentials between areas?
- Analyse and explain the current and future factors that affect the supply of regional private giving. What innovative methods can be used by small regional organisations to increase private giving?
- What are the most effective interventions governments can implement to increase housing supply where most needed?
- What are the best ways of ensuring local growth interventions benefit intended beneficiaries in an area (e.g. disadvantaged local residents) rather than inward commuters?
- What is the evidence that culture-led regeneration is effective?
- What is the evidence for which local growth interventions are most effective in different scenarios? Does the mix of interventions matter, and how should we measure impact and value for money in that scenario? What are the displacement and spillover effects of place-based interventions to surrounding areas?
- What does the evidence show about how the pandemic has affected people’s preferences about where they live and where they are able to work (e.g. rural areas versus cities)? How are these preferences different across cohorts, such as socio-economic, and locations? Are any such trends likely to be long-term?
- What does the evidence show are the factors that create the greatest potential to build agglomeration economies that benefit local areas and residents in question? And what are the key elements that bring agglomeration benefits– housing, transport, local skills, R&D and business dynamics? Are there costs to agglomeration that that worsen outcomes for residents and neighbouring areas?
- How can government finance regeneration and recycle the benefits to reduce the costs to taxpayers?
- To what extent, and how, can regeneration drive productivity, including the contribution from physical and broader regeneration initiatives?
- What are the international examples of effective interventions to regenerate town centres and cities? What does this show us about the roles of the public and private sectors, the type of investment required, and in different contexts?
- Can we estimate the relative social returns of increased spending on R&D compared to improving the diffusion of innovation and the adoption of new technologies?
- What are the estimated social gains to R&D in the UK? What is the estimated value of spillovers, and how important is geographical proximity to their capture?
- How can we evaluate additionality of government support in investment promotion?
- Can we further explore quantitatively the role of expectations and narrative in determining the economic fortunes of regions and sub-regions of the UK?
- How can the categorisation and measurement of trade in services by the modes of supply be developed and optimised?
- What impact do restrictions on data flows and data localisation requirements have on trade?
- Better understand and quantify the extent to which investment in grassroots facilities improves participation, including for underrepresented groups and in different parts of the country.
- What measurement approaches should be used to evaluate the impact of market access barriers on sustainable development?
- What measures could help minimise the risks of de-forestation, biodiversity, and habitat loss in producer countries, without creating excessive trade distortion?
- In terms of business environment, which characteristics of developing markets should be considered when helping businesses engage in exporting activity?
- What are the sub-regional implications of future trade agreements and trade policy more broadly
- How can we evaluate the performance of trade policy in delivering regional growth and international development?
- What is the capacity for increasing exports in those parts of the country where the levelling up agenda is particularly focused on?
- What role does trade play in variation in sub-regional growth productivity and employment in the UK?
- How useful is comparative advantage when identifying and evaluating opportunities across UK regions and sectors?
- How do we incorporate the full spectrum of natural capital and the value of the benefits it provides into policy development, analysis, and appraisal? What are the tools we need to make use of robust economic values easier for everyone – across government and beyond?
- What can we learn about sequencing the levels of intervention and openness in an economy following a shock? How can economic theories, such as transition economics, inform this?
- How will COVID-19 affect global technological adoption rates and what will that mean for disruptions to global trade and investment patterns?
- Increasing understanding of the macro-economic benefits of resource efficiency. Developing metrics and measurement techniques to identify key areas for intervention to achieve these benefits and to monitor progress
- What is needed to bring the UK to a best-in-world performance on recycling, particularly in difficult areas such as urban recycling? How can we improve secondary material markets to drive further recycling increases?
- What data and evidence are needed to inform policy and delivery and what are the best sources to meet these needs? How can we improve broad access to this data and enhance knowledge exchange across the agri-food industry?
- Integrate fisheries monitoring in a systems approach to manage and maintain sustainable productivity. Integrate marine planning systems to protect habitats and species, and reduce the industry’s costs to enable economic development
- How can the UK optimise sustainable growth of biomass for use in power generation (bioenergy) and, with appropriate storage, for removal of atmospheric CO2? How can the negative environmental consequences from biomass production and use (on soil quality, water quality, air quality, and biodiversity) be minimised? What’s the full life cycle analysis for different feedstock? What’s the scalability of different feedstocks within sustainable limits?
- Which interventions can be used to incentivise improvements in water quality in the environment?
- What is the value of different elements of the natural environment in economic terms and more generally? How can we best capture and integrate intangible values into decision-making?
- What are possible governance and finance options for flood and coastal erosion risk management?
- What is the impact of rising sea level on coastal systems, natural, and human? Can natural systems help to mitigate against coastal incursion and degradation?
- How does investment in the environment bring benefits to society, including through health, wellbeing, and natural capital? Who are the beneficiaries and how do we quantify and communicate those benefits – and costs?
- How can we assess and mitigate systemic risks involving environmental factors? What are the best approaches for monitoring that tracks system dynamics based on key ‘watchpoints’ to trigger mitigation actions?
- How can different mixes of ‘responses’ – such as regulations, taxes (for example polluter pays), subsidies (for example public money for public goods), and spatial planning – impact the delivery of environmental, economic, and social outcomes at different spatial scales?
- How can we encourage or incentivise behavioural change to achieve positive outcomes for the environment, and how can we enable appropriate informed adaptive management with communities?
- How can local planning for nature-based solutions be best reconciled with regional and national strategies? What are the most effective ways to combine place-based participatory approaches with evidence and analysis of the likely effectiveness of nature-based solutions?
- How can we balance different interests at local and national levels, to provide the resources we need, reduce degradation of natural capital and improve the state of the environment?
- What are the real-world barriers that prevent land-users (for example farmers) taking up low/negative carbon measures, and how can these be overcome? How can we improve the estimation and validation of take up for these practices?
- Climate projections (for example UK Climate Projections 18) indicate increased climate variability and extreme events (storms, heat waves, drought) in the future. How will these changes impact natural and human systems? How can we protect against damage caused by such increased variability?
- Which policies and initiatives have been effective in increasing the non-economic/monetizable value delivered by the creative industries?
- What kind of mix of business models for PSB and non-PSB broadcasters might the market sustain going forwards?
- Which countries have adopted incentives which may reduce UK comparative advantage and attract talent from the UK? What are these incentives and what is the impact of these incentives?
- What supply and demand side interventions would be appropriate and what could be their impact?
- What are the underlying causes of the financial challenges facing the press sector and how does that vary across the national and local sub-sectors? What impact are the financial challenges having on the economic, social and cultural value of news provision in the UK?
- What drives spatial inequalities in relation to CSY’s policy responsibilities?
- How can collaboration between organisations, commissioners and other funders across CSY sectors and actors be enhanced at local levels to support better outcomes?
- How effective is social investment in building resilient local (social) economies and civil society, and in delivering social impact?
- What are the drivers and barriers of other funders of the sector, including social and mainstream investors and commissioners?
- To what extent have investments in buildings/infrastructure (new buildings, expansion/maintenance or repurposing for cultural use) led to social and economic regeneration of an area?
- To what extent does the distance from and/or density of AHT assets determine engagement rates among specific groups? What does this mean for public investment into AHT infrastructure?
- Analyse and explain to what extent there is a causal relationship between place-based cultural funding (e.g. cultural property protection) and wider local socioeconomic impacts? To what extent are there spillover effects in nearby surrounding areas?
- Analyse to what extent the AHTassets/offer act as push and pull factors in people and business decisions to move, stay or leave for a different location? What does this mean for public investment policy in culture, heritage and tourism and growth of cultural clusters?
- Analyse and explain the interactions across the cultural sector value chain and the relative importance of parts of the value chain to growth and sector resilience to understand how future policy interventions should be targeted.
- What is the value of subsea communications cables to the UK economy, and should the UK seek to attract or incentivise the expansion of the subsea cable network?
- What interventions can support communities to tap into and take ownership of social investment at local and “hyper-local” levels?
- How do we ensure a sustainable economic recovery post COVID-19 with environmental outcomes built in; and what is the potential for rural communities and businesses to contribute?
- What forms of funding and support have been shown to be effective for this sector, to maximise sector health and beneficial outcomes?
- What is the impact on the new location and CIs growth from moving the location of a large media or CI business? For example, BBC Media City in Salford or the Cardiff BBC centre. What other spillover effects result? How do large businesses support local creative industries supply chains and skills development?
- What approaches do regulators currently use to support innovators? How effective are these approaches? What are the underlying barriers stopping regulators from doing more to enable innovation (Capability, Opportunity and/or Motivation)? What opportunities are there for government to work with regulators to support innovation? How can grant funding be targeted at those regulator initiatives which will have the most impact on innovation?
- What will the future of AI look like within the UK, and how can we monitor our progress towards the many possible scenarios?
- To what extent are the impacts of COVID-19 temporary and which represent permanent trends to supply, demand and business models? What opportunities and challenges do these changes in behaviour present for businesses across DCMS sectors, both in the short-run and longer-term?
- Analyse and explain the structure of the UK commercial art market (paintings and other tangible art products) and how much the UK commercial art market contributes to the wider economy.
- To what extent has the UK’s competitiveness in transport infrastructure changed relative to other countries? And what lessons can we learn from short-term changes internationally that can be implemented long-term domestically? For example, how has UK’s transport WEF Competitiveness Index scores increased/decreased compared to other countries?
- How can throughput of goods and people be increased cost-effectively through transport security systems?
- How is the strategic regeneration of large areas best managed over the long term?
- Do longer term funding packages result in better outcomes? What’s the evidence?