The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently advised that "climate change is a grave and mounting threat to our wellbeing and a healthy planet" (2023, p.6). This threat underlines the importance of developing businesses innovation capabilities and implementing Circular Economy...

This paper provides an analysis of the economy and labour market of West Wales, which isdefined as Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, and Pembrokeshire. Some key points emerging fromthis are:- the important but declining role of agriculture, the growing importance of tourism, theimportance of...

It is argued that construction is an important sector of the Welsh economy in terms of employment, wages and growth. Key competence and capacity issues have arisen, however, due to large contracting firms concentrating on core activities and subcontracting peripheral activities to Small...

Over the past two decades Wales has been quite successful in developing industrial clusters inautomotive components and electronics, but is still relatively weak in areas thought important tolong term manufacturing competitiveness, notably Research and Development (R&D). Thispaper examines...

It is increasingly understood that learning and thus innovation often occurs via highly interactive, iterative, network-based processes. Simultaneously, economic development policy is increasingly focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as a means of generating growth, creating a...

Universities are increasingly encouraged to take a leading role in economic development, particularly through innovation. Simultaneously, economic development policy itself is increasingly focused on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), creating overlapping interactions in the roles of...