Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration in Scotland’s City Region Deal

Citation

Knox S & Arshed N (2023) Understanding Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration in Scotland’s City Region Deal. Innovation Caucus. https://innovationcaucus.co.uk/app/uploads/2023/06/Innovation-Caucus-Understanding-stakeholder-engagement.pdf

Abstract
Over the last decade, collaborative governance and ensuring wider stakeholder policy engagement has gained traction. In recent times, several policies such as City Region Deals, have been introduced with the aim to ‘fix’ uneven regional development by directing significant investment into the hands of regional and local policy actors. Despite the benefits of such decentralised policymaking, several challenges exist on how to develop effective collaborative governance arrangements to deliver projects and programmes given the investment deliver upon investment. The aim of this report is to shed light on the effective partnerships by undertaking an in-depth exploration of the City Region Deals in Scotland.