Place-based industrial strategies in the context of the Northern Ireland Protocol

Brownlow, Graham and Budd, Leslie (2024). Place-based industrial strategies in the context of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Regional Studies, 58(2) pp. 409–421.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2194332

Abstract

As a lagging regional economy that underperforms the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland represents a number of continuing challenges that have a long history. In recent years, technologies and processes associated with Industry 4.0 have had little impact with a few exceptions. Yet these activities have become central to industrial policy and strategies in the last two decades, in spite of the path-dependent nature of the economy. The underperformance is exacerbated by Brexit and increased hybridity of the economy due to the Northern Ireland Protocol that appears to be a form of industrial policy to be analysed.

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