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Prosperity in Every Postcode: New book out on September 28!

In the UK, it looks like regions and places will get more powers and resources in enhanced devolution deals.

Coming after 15 years of public sector austerity: local government, and economic development functions have lost capacity and capability. How will we make devolution a success?

There is no holy grail for successful economic development in places. It is a complex, messy business that you have to deliver in a dynamic, ever changing environment. There is a menu of hundreds of different initiatives, services and interventions to choose from, and a wide array of national and international best practice to learn from. And then there is the political environment, which changes more rapidly now than ever before.

The answer is to build the capable organisations and teams that can acquire knowledge of interventions, filter the right ones that fit local circumstances, adapt and deliver them, and negotiate the complexity of local and regional economies, politics, communities and business.

This book is about the judgement, disciplines and leadership that separate places that deliver from places that announce.

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Listen to me talk about the handbook in ED podcasts

I joined David Marlow and Mike Spicer on the LED Confidential podcast recently, and we went straight at the question that opened the episode: why do so many places struggle to close the gap between what they set out to do and what actually happens on the ground? Listen here.

I spoke with Dane Carlson on the EconDevShow, a US-based podcast – about The Local and Regional Economic Development Handbook. Listen here.