The Glasgow Riverside Innovation District (GRID)
Glasgow Riverside Innovation District (GRID) is a partnership between the University of Glasgow, Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow City Council, founded on an inclusive innovation approach.
Urban economic growth focus for Policy Scotland lunchtime seminar
The second Policy Scotland lunchtime seminar focused on urban economic growth. See a brief summary and get the presentation.
Strengthening economic cases for housing: the productivity gains from better housing outcomes
Professor Duncan Maclennan, Policy Scotland associate, has modelled how housing outcomes impact economic growth and productivity, making the case for housing construction to be classed as infrastructure investment, akin to investment in transport links, water and communications.
Housing – New Realpolitik Needs a New Real Economics
The pressured housing markets of Sydney and Melbourne pose major challenges, from problems for aspiring homebuyers and lower-income populations to lesser-noticed impacts on urban productivity.
Issues Paper on City Deals and Inclusive Growth
This paper sets out the issues that researchers and policymakers will be confronted with when considering the parallels and possible links between the inclusive growth agenda and the deal-based decentralisation agenda (to sub-national entities).
The economic and social necessity of freedom of movement
Josef Konvitz argues for not limiting freedom of movement for British citizens but making Scottish cities even more attractive and dynamic by investing more.
After the Event: Josef Konvitz – Brexit and Freedom of Movement
Text of a lecture given by Professor Josef Konvitz discussing why freedom of movement is in fact critical not only to the future of the EU economy, but to that of the UK as well.
June 8th – Policy Scotland – ESRC – Urban Transformations
As individual city policies come to replace national cities policies, this event reviewed three key, linked strands of this major shift: city deals, smart cities and what we call metropolitan federalism.
Growing public and political interest in urban land reform
People are beginning to realise that land reform in Scotland may become just as important in urban areas as rural ones, especially in tackling urban vacancy and dereliction
Council tax reform is long overdue – so how do we do it?
By Kenneth Gibb, Policy Scotland, Professor of Housing Economics at University of Glasgow. When the council tax was first introduced in 1993, it was viewed as a politically clever fix after the catastrophe of the poll tax. It combined the palatable parts of a tax on property with personal discounts and limited exemptions for certain…