Is the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy really Place-Based?

Is the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy really Place-Based? By David Bailey, Lisa De Propris, Chris Dimos, Felicia Fai, Sally Hardy and and Philip R TomlinsonThe UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy has been presented as a bold plan for economic renewal: a promise to boost productivity, spread opportunity across regions, support innovation, and rebalance an economy long dominated by London and the South East.In a new critical review published in the Policy Debates section of Regional Studies, we argue that the Modern Industrial Strategy, for all its ambition, fundamentally misses the mark.