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Focus areas include role of R&D spending and importance of geographical proximity to research projects
The UK government department in charge of the levelling-up agenda has set out further details on its areas of research interest.
This comes as the Institute for Government, a think tank, said that ministers should make their R&D levelling-up mission more ambitious and increase the share of public funding going to areas outside the south-east.