This workstream explores the structures and processes which shape and define day-to-day economic life. From the local to the national scale, we will examine how communities can best access the macro advantages that globalisation brings. Encouraging new market entry, ensuring supply chain resilience through more localised control, promoting greater diversity of business models and wider asset distribution are all prerequisite to building a more stable and healthy economy that is grounded in human and social relationships.
Models of the past have led to unbalanced economic growth and barriers to market entry and competition. Our work within New Economies, Innovative Markets therefore seeks to provide practical policy solutions for a moral capitalism which transforms the terms of economic and social wealth. Our objectives in 2012 include re-defining economic competition, diversifying the market for SMEs and social enterprise, innovating solutions to enterprise and infrastructure financing, and exploring the benefits of business clusters and localised growth, in order to achieve an economy based on trust and reciprocity.
A ResPublica project commencing Spring 2012
Forthcoming publication on the challenge of youth unemployment with innovative solutions
Innovative Finance for Infrastructural Development
Forthcoming project from our 'New Economies' workstream
Ahead the Budget announcement, ResPublica publishes seven guiding principles
New ResPublica Green Paper supported by Friends of the Earth
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