Max Nathan's guest appearances

Max Nathan

Centre for Cities

Richard Florida

Michael Parkinson

Andy Burnham

Will Tanner

Tony Wilson

Ben Wilson

Rachel Lawrence

Tim Bartik

Jonathan Rodden

Julie Grail

Rebecca McDonald

Otto Saumarez-Smith

Gavin Kelly

Nick Pearce

Neil O’Brien

OwlTail

Clusters such as Silicon Valley are liked by policymakers for many reasons. They are visible, often prestigious, and are effectively cities in miniature. They take the things that make urban economies work and amplify and concentrate them in a particular place.London's Tech City programme was launched in 2010 to accelerate its tech cluster in Shoreditch and, by 2014, the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson was hailing it a huge success.But did the policy have any effect? And how might you approach evaluation when there are no like-for-like comparators?For this episode of City Talks, Dr Max Nathan joins Andrew Carter to discuss his recent paper 'Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the Tech City programme'.

Clusters such as Silicon Valley are liked by policymakers for many reasons. They are visible, often prestigious, and are effectively cities in miniature. They take the things that make urban economies work and amplify and concentrate them in a particular place. London's Tech City programme was launched in 2010 to accelerate its tech cluster in Shoreditch and, by 2014, the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson was hailing it a huge success. But did the policy have any effect? And how might you approach evaluation when there are no like-for-like comparators? For this episode of City Talks, Dr Max Nathan joins Andrew Carter to discuss his recent paper 'Does light touch cluster policy work? Evaluating the Tech City programme'.

City Talks: Does cluster policy work? Evaluating Tech City with Dr Max Nathan 