Developing strong, successful economies that enable everyone to prosper, while also tackling deep-seated inequalities, is a significant policy priority for national, regional and local governments.

It also relates to the UN Sustainable Development Goals of ending poverty in all its forms everywhere, reducing inequality within and among countries, and making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

We’re contributing to a strong, inclusive economy by sharing knowledge to help businesses and communities grow, innovate and diversify, and supporting policymakers to respond to the most pressing issues in society - from cybercrime and globalisation, to communication in global crises.

This approach to building inclusive, prosperous communities starts with people and places. Our Knowledge Transfer Partnerships with business, for example, take a business-first approach – looking at the needs of individual businesses and building long-term relationships to help leaders address them.

One such partnership aims to help retailers dramatically speed up the stock counting process through the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, increasing cost and time efficiencies for businesses of all sizes. Many of our other partnerships are giving fantastic career opportunities to graduates across sectors as broad as gaming, pet care, web design and manufacturing, and everything in-between.

We’re also helping to shape the places of the future, considering the ways in which how people live, work and play is changing and how our built environment, technologies and policymaking need to adapt in response.

And we’re working to shine a spotlight on injustice so that structural inequalities can be properly addressed, upending accepted narratives about issues such as race or gender by providing different perspectives and understandings.