ESRC press release:
£2 million boost for ESRC research centres to support industrial strategy
16 April 2018
The Economic and Social Research Council is delighted to announce that the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC), the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth Centre (LEG) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) have collectively received £2 million in extra funding from the Government to support a programme of work as part of the Industrial Strategy. The programme will comprise synthetic reviews, short term research projects and new data collection, which will support the implementation of the Industrial Strategy. The themes of the work will be: Entrepreneurs and business growth; place; skills; and wages and distributional impacts.