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Rural areas seem to raising up the regional development agenda. In this blog Dinah Jackson, Programme Manager for the North East Local Enterprise Partnership looks to the future.

Are you a local SMEs? Newcastle University is looking to recruit SMEs to the next round of ‘PhDs for SMEs’ project

Community Action Northumberland’s CEO, Andy Dean looks at the challenges facing the Voluntary and Community Sector

At the beginning of the digital age, much hope was placed on the ability of new technology to level the playing field between urban and rural areas.

Rural areas would benefit from greater devolved decision making and a single, co-ordinated voice to avoid long-term issues being made worse by Brexit. Academics at Newcastle University, the University of Cumbria and Northumbria University looked at the implications of Brexit…

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