…a good year for bringing community rights to the fore of public discourse and awareness in Wales. Almost six months after the release of Harry Thompson’s foundational report Our Land:…
Placemaking, or Life and Death (and Rebirth?) of a Great Welsh Town
…space linking the town to the local supermarket, an integrated active travel hub, incubation spaces for new foundational economy businesses and a high design café linking Pontypool Park with the…
Usage and Abusage: A Bad Case of Hiraeth
…its tragic losses but because of them. It is a pact with the presence of absence.’ Declarations like this forget that these foundational events of modern Welsh history aren’t just…
A Vision for Welsh Towns
…of revitalising and reimagining our town centres. Welsh Government is looking at some of the structural challenges identified in reports from Audit Wales and Foundational Economy Research with input from…
An Ambition Worth Having: Physics, Innovation and the Welsh Economy
…to publish a long-awaited innovation strategy. Given the figures above, it’s vital that the role of fundamental science is properly recognised and embedded in that strategy. Without strength in foundational…
Editorial – Upgrading Work for the 21st Century
…jobs’ that will make a positive environmental impact while securing a fairer economic future. Yet, in our report Turning Rhetoric into Reality: Decarbonising the Foundational Economy, we raised concerns about…
IWA Analysis: Where Next for the Foundational Economy?
…need to be overcome. Foundational economy sectors struggle to compete with high-growth sectors for attention and investment By absorbing the foundational economy into existing sector-based economic development programmes, as evidenced…
Turning Rhetoric into Reality: Decarbonising the Foundational Economy
Our report, Turning Rhetoric into Reality: Decarbonising the Foundational Economy, was produced as part of the IWA’s project with CREW to look at the foundational economy as a policy agenda…
Why the NHS is Fundamental to Economic and Social Recovery
…administrative services to NHS Wales organisations, has been tasked to scope and support delivery of the NHS Wales Executive Board Foundational Economy (FE) Programme. One example of action taken to…