Economic development incentive
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- To what extent have investments in buildings/infrastructure (new buildings, expansion/maintenance or repurposing for cultural use) led to social and economic regeneration of an area?
- Optimisation of strategy and priority setting institutions and governance in the RDI system: Do we have the right institutional model for strategy and priority setting at all levels across the UK RDI system to deliver the ambitions of the Science and Technology framework?
- What supply and demand side interventions would be appropriate and what could be their impact?
- To what extent does the distance from and/or density of AHT assets determine engagement rates among specific groups? What does this mean for public investment into AHT infrastructure?
- Which domestic policy levers can best address the externalities of trade reform, including impact on and adjustments costs to specific groups, sectors, and regions?
- Better understand and quantify the extent to which investment in grassroots facilities improves participation, including for underrepresented groups and in different parts of the country.
- What role does trade play in variation in sub-regional growth productivity and employment in the UK?
- What approaches do regulators currently use to support innovators? How effective are these approaches? What are the underlying barriers stopping regulators from doing more to enable innovation (Capability, Opportunity and/or Motivation)? What opportunities are there for government to work with regulators to support innovation? How can grant funding be targeted at those regulator initiatives which will have the most impact on innovation?
- How can collaboration between organisations, commissioners and other funders across CSY sectors and actors be enhanced at local levels to support better outcomes?
- Analyse and explain the common features of organisations that are making the largest economic contribution within an AHT subsector (e.g. type, size, location of businesses). What lessons can be learnt to drive future growth policy?
- What measurement approaches should be used to evaluate the impact of market access barriers on sustainable development?
- What impact do restrictions on data flows and data localisation requirements have on trade?
- What are the drivers and barriers of other funders of the sector, including social and mainstream investors and commissioners?
- Analyse to what extent the AHTassets/offer act as push and pull factors in people and business decisions to move, stay or leave for a different location? What does this mean for public investment policy in culture, heritage and tourism and growth of cultural clusters?
- Analyse and explain the structure of the UK commercial art market (paintings and other tangible art products) and how much the UK commercial art market contributes to the wider economy.
- Assess and evaluate the most effective methods of measuring the impact of tourism marketing, to demonstrate its effectiveness and value for money.
- How can the categorisation and measurement of trade in services by the modes of supply be developed and optimised?
- What will the future of AI look like within the UK, and how can we monitor our progress towards the many possible scenarios?
- To what extent has the UK’s competitiveness in transport infrastructure changed relative to other countries? And what lessons can we learn from short-term changes internationally that can be implemented long-term domestically? For example, how has UK’s transport WEF Competitiveness Index scores increased/decreased compared to other countries?
- What is the value of subsea communications cables to the UK economy, and should the UK seek to attract or incentivise the expansion of the subsea cable network?
- What is the capacity for increasing exports in those parts of the country where the levelling up agenda is particularly focused on?
- What kind of mix of business models for PSB and non-PSB broadcasters might the market sustain going forwards?
- What forms of funding and support have been shown to be effective for this sector, to maximise sector health and beneficial outcomes?
- To what extent do international trade expos help build the reputation of the UK and its regional strengths as a destination for international projects?
- What can we learn about sequencing the levels of intervention and openness in an economy following a shock? How can economic theories, such as transition economics, inform this?
- Using regional and local studies, what is the impact of export finance services on localised markets? How does export finance services support regional growth and development?
- Analyse the most significant factors that create barriers/risks to financial health for AHT organisations. What policy interventions can reduce financial risk for these organisations?
- How effective is social investment in building resilient local (social) economies and civil society, and in delivering social impact?
- AI sector: What are the key opportunities for HMG to intervene that will support the growth of the UK AI sector?
- What incentives need to be put in place to ensure that the UK semiconductor industry remains competitive?
- How can we evaluate the performance of trade policy in delivering regional growth and international development?
- Which policies and initiatives have been effective in increasing the non-economic/monetizable value delivered by the creative industries?
- What are the underlying causes of the financial challenges facing the press sector and how does that vary across the national and local sub-sectors? What impact are the financial challenges having on the economic, social and cultural value of news provision in the UK?
- What enables UK space sector companies to thrive – and what stops them from thriving?
- What is the impact on the new location and CIs growth from moving the location of a large media or CI business? For example, BBC Media City in Salford or the Cardiff BBC centre. What other spillover effects result? How do large businesses support local creative industries supply chains and skills development?
- Analyse and explain to what extent there is a causal relationship between place-based cultural funding (e.g. cultural property protection) and wider local socioeconomic impacts? To what extent are there spillover effects in nearby surrounding areas?
- What measures could help minimise the risks of de-forestation, biodiversity, and habitat loss in producer countries, without creating excessive trade distortion?
- What interventions can support communities to tap into and take ownership of social investment at local and “hyper-local” levels?
- What is the impact of increased trade and investment on poverty reduction in developing countries?
- Analyse and explain the current and future factors that affect the supply of regional private giving. What innovative methods can be used by small regional organisations to increase private giving?
- How will COVID-19 affect global technological adoption rates and what will that mean for disruptions to global trade and investment patterns?
- What is the best/most appropriate indicator of financial health and sustainability of AHT organisations? At what point do AHT organisations become at risk and might require government intervention to secure their long term survival?
- How do schools and colleges become more financially efficient over time? What are the drivers of that behaviour and how can it best be stimulated, supported and replicated?
- Where have bus services been a success (either in the UK or internationally) and why were they successful? How is it related to history, socio-economic and demographic factors, alternative travel modes and financial and other incentives?
- What conditions need to be in place for transport investments to transform local economies? These conditions may relate to demographic factors, complementary investments, or government policies for example. What are the micro mechanisms that underpin how workers move across space due to better transport connections?
- In terms of business environment, which characteristics of developing markets should be considered when helping businesses engage in exporting activity?
- How can throughput of goods and people be increased cost-effectively through transport security systems?
- What are the sub-regional implications of future trade agreements and trade policy more broadly
- Analyse and explain the interactions across the cultural sector value chain and the relative importance of parts of the value chain to growth and sector resilience to understand how future policy interventions should be targeted.
- How useful is comparative advantage when identifying and evaluating opportunities across UK regions and sectors?
- How can we evaluate additionality of government support in investment promotion?
- What research techniques are most effective in evaluating how trade policy drives prosperity?
- Which countries have adopted incentives which may reduce UK comparative advantage and attract talent from the UK? What are these incentives and what is the impact of these incentives?
- To what extent are the impacts of COVID-19 temporary and which represent permanent trends to supply, demand and business models? What opportunities and challenges do these changes in behaviour present for businesses across DCMS sectors, both in the short-run and longer-term?
- RDI outside of the Greater South East: How can the government boost RDI outside of the Greater South East to boost productivity, pay, jobs and living standards? Also, how can the UK attract RDI investment in these clusters from private actors?
- What drives spatial inequalities in relation to CSY’s policy responsibilities?
- To what extent does the use of international standards particularly facilitate trade with developing, low and middle-income countries?