…focus we may find small firms in Wales are out-competed for work by those over the border. These are good, skilled, secure jobs in the foundational economy that Wales should…
Restanza in Blaenau: New Foundational Politics
…research findings inform the foundational politics of place? Foundational thinking involves much more than claims about the importance of essential services provided by the welfare state and utilities. The foundational…
Introducing: Ukraine: What can we do?
…and awareness in Wales. Almost six months after the release of Harry Thompson’s foundational report Our Land: Communities and Land Use, lines are shifting in Wales to allow residents more…
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
…presence of absence.’ Declarations like this forget that these foundational events of modern Welsh history aren’t just blasé metaphors to be thrown around like hiraeth to make a vaguely articulated,…
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
…in foundational subjects like physics, the edifice you build on top will be fragile. The UK Government is emphasising science and technology unashamedly, understanding innovation as tech-driven and high-growth. The…
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?
…that will 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,…