The universities of Exeter, Plymouth and Falmouth have joined forces to launch a new initiative that will harness the region’s academic and research expertise to improve people’s lives, empower communities and drive the economy across the peninsula and with UK benefits.

The South West Think Tank (SWTT) will draw upon the universities’ highly regarded experts, working across a range...

Establishing a Regional Investment Bank could support regional economic hubs outside of London and the South East, by giving them better access to public and private investment and closing the “equity finance gap”, a leading think tank has claimed.

The proposal from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) expands on a suggestion originally made in Gordon Brown’s Commission on the future...