The attraction of inward investment from the UK and from overseas was the main focus of regional development policy in Wales for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Whilst Wales has been particularly successful in attracting foreign enterprise, the contribution of new investors to improving longer term...

This paper investigates how firms in the UK might be encouraged to create more value through strategic innovation.Our approach is an integrative one, drawing on both the extant literature - covering the value chain, innovation andthe low skill/low quality equilibrium debate - and the two...

Improving the UK’s competitive position has become a matter ofnational importance. The DTI Review of UK Manufacturing Policy,published in July 2004, stressed the need for the UK to become ahigh value economy1. Previous studies including the Porter Reportand the DTI Innovation Report2 3 also...