The University of Lincoln Schools of Geography and Business have teamed up with Roger Turner of Rural Enterprise UK to launch a guide for economic policy-makers to ensure that rural areas are properly recognised within new Local Industrial Strategies. A PDF version of the guide can be downloaded here:
Releasing the Potential
Capturing the diversity of rural economies within strategic policy thinking is not straightforward but we believe that devolving Local Industrial Strategies to LEPs allows local areas to think more imaginatively about the potential of rural economies to be drivers of new forms of growth and innovation.