Explore the rationale for local and regional economic development and the types of functions and actions that it involves.
Key economic concepts that you need to know - explained. Discussion of megatrends, the major global forces that affect every local and regional economy. The main theories of economic development that you need to know to understand local and regional economic development challenges and solutions.
Policy and local and regional economic development; strategies for prioritisation, planning activities, and the importance of intelligence, evidence and being informed.
Learn how industrial development and industrial clusters, enterprise and entrepreneurship, FDI and inward investment are important activities for local and regional economic development.
This module covers labour markets, education and skills, and economic participation and unemployment. These labour markets are often at the centre of debates and actions in local and regional economic development.
The incidence of poverty and inequality, and spatial concentrations of deprivation, and the role of local and regional economic development in addressing this.
The role of place, infrastructure and real estate in local and regional economic development - covering planning, property development and physical regeneration.
This lesson explores, in some depth, how climate change and sustainability are changing how we think about local and regional economic development, and discusses the implications of energy transition and resource efficiency on local economies.