Touching the Void: Wealth creation through regional supplier hyper-localisation

This Churchill Fellowship funded research project will explore the problem of supply chain voids created by a combination of COVID-19/Ukrainian conflict, and resultant international approaches to the hyper-localisation of supply chains to fill these voids. This of interest to researchers and practitioners because regional reshoring of suppliers offers benefits to the economically challenged region of Wales, which has reshaped through deindustrialisation, and the growth of green economy through private sector initiatives such as the South Wales Industrial Cluster and public sector funded NetZero Wales. This research seeks to acquire and assimilated global learning from the differing national economies of Japan and Spain who have tackled these supply chain voids using different policy and practical approaches which could be applied in Wales for future economic and innovation growth.