On Wednesday July 9^th 2008, NESTA will launch its latest research report "Path Dependence and Innovation in British City-regions". The report is the result of collaboration with two research teams led by Professor James Simmie from the Department of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and Professor Ron Martin from the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

NESTA's new research uncovers the different industrial and economic pathways taken by the UK's most and least innovative city-regions and identifies a series of factors that have led to growing disparities between them. Professor James Simmie, who led the research, will present the findings.

The collected findings of the report will be the subject of a panel discussion involving the lead researchers and representatives from Government, RDA's, and other practitioners at the city-region level.

Please join us to find out more about the findings of this 18 month project and to discuss their implications for policy.

When: Wednesday, 9th July, 3 - 5.30pm

Where: NESTA, 1, Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

NESTA's Policy and Research Unit

The NPRU aims to help transform the UK's capacity for innovation by:

- building a relevant and coherent policy and research programme that resonates with national priorities, political realities, media interest and the research frontier

- integrating policy goals within all NESTA programmes - using research to design programmes, and using the evidence base created by programmes to drive policy development

- establishing a strong policy and research community around innovation

Getting hereThe closest tube station to NESTA is Chancery Lane, but City Thameslink, Farringdon, Blackfriars and Temple are all less than ten minutes walk away. Map: http://tinyurl.com/6gdzfx