Jo Dally, Chief Business Officer for NCC will be discussing “Connected Clusters: What can we learn from Bristol, Cambridge, Manchester on regional growth?” on 30 January in Bristol.
Jo joins a panel of experts to consider the greater clustering of activity and new growth sectors and businesses offers opportunities for cities and combined authority areas. This includes best practices, challenges and solutions.
In an exclusive launch of a Bennett Institute/ Growing Together Alliance report, published for this session – Public Policy on Connected Clusters – the panel also looks at the clustering of high knowledge firms and R&D between cities and the implications for growth in Bristol, Cambridge, London and Manchester and wider lessons.
Organised by Futures West in partnership with the Growing Together Alliance, Festival of Flourishing Regions is dedicated to the advancement and growth of regions across the UK. The festival aims to promote and celebrate the role that cities and regions play in the economy and prosperity of the country and look at how regions can drive the growth agenda of the government. The festival brings together policymakers, regional planners, economic development experts, academics, and business and community leaders to explore and promote strategies for regional prosperity.
The sessions will cover university/ industry partnerships; housing and infrastructure; productivity, cities, and combined authorities; maximising devolution; and case studies on Cambridge, Manchester and Bristol based on a new Bennett Institute report.
