Prof. Helen Lawton Smith has recently contributed to a roundtable discussion on “How higher education can harness and empower the UK’s research and innovation clusters”, organised by Times Higher Education and Huawei.

A Special Issue published in Strategic Change (Guest editors: Carla Susana Marques, Vitor Braga, João J. Ferreira, and Helen Lawton Smith) challenges stereotype images of entrepreneurs by exploring how minority groups contribute to the economic growth of local, regional, and national economies

The final CIMR Debate of the Spring term invited a panel of technology experts to discuss regional variations in digital competences and the growing potential of the Internet of Things.

In their new paper published in Regional Studies, Federica Rossi, Ning Baines and Helen Lawton Smith explain which features of regional economies make them more likely to retain and attract newly created university spinout companies.