Future Leaders of Place

The ASC have commissioned the University of Birmingham to conduct a research project to consider what leadership of place will entail in the future, and how future leaders can be prepared for this role.
The report forms part of ASC's research and learning activity concerned with improving the leadership, managerial and technical skills of policymakers and practitioners.

This research aims to understand and explain the critical features of leadership of place in a new context - economic development, planning and regeneration activity in the knowledge-based economy (KBE).
Through reference to literature, discussion with practitioners and material from six case studies, it identifies:

• A new framework for researching the leadership dimensions of economic development, planning and regeneration policy in the KBE.

• New perspectives on effective leadership in different places (via case study examples from across Europe).

• Transferable lessons establishing why certain approaches are successful.

• Recommendations about how ASC can move the agenda forward through further research and the development of learning materials.

Please find the report below.