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Our evidence briefings highlight research findings and their relevance in key policy areas - available as PDF downloads below.

  • NEW: Delivering an efficient skills policy (PDF, 230Kb)
  • NEW: Using clusters and collective learning for innovation (PDF, 243Kb)

Innovation and skills

  • Delivering an efficient skills policy
  • Using clusters and collective learning for innovation
  • Identifying innovation in the UK
  • Stimulating UK‐China collaboration on innovation

Economy and business

  • Foreign ownership and consequences for British business
  • Housing market effects on the economy
  • Planning causes supermarket productivity loss
  • Rebalancing Britain's public finances
  • The effect of the credit crisis on UK SME finance

Social mobility

  • Childrens education crucial for social mobility
  • Local development: for people, not places
  • Longitudinal studies: Child development and social mobility

Employment and labour market

  • Longitudinal studies: Employment and the labour market

Health and care provision

  • Estimating future needs for older people
  • Independence crucial to wellbeing in older age
  • Longitudinal studies: Health and wellbeing

Environment

  • Delivering low-carbon energy in developing countries

Celebrating social sciences

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