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Impact Data Metrics is delighted announce the completion of a successful fundraising round to support the continued expansion of the...

Impact Data Metrics launched a major new report at the Invest Midlands 2021 Conference – Chasing Unicorns - Innovation-Led Growth in the...

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” So said the economist John Maynard Keynes, whose...

The Midlands is in danger of missing out on growth opportunities presented by emerging technologies such as smart vehicles, artificial...

Impact Data Metrics launched a major new report at the Invest North 2021 Conference – Chasing Unicorns and Innovation-Led Growth in the...

The North of England continues to lag badly behind the ‘Golden Triangle’ of Oxford, Cambridge and London in its ability to attract...

It was no coincidence that former chancellor George Osbourne launched his Northern Powerhouse vision from Manchester’s Museum of Science...

The response to Covid-19 will be analysed and debated for years to come. But there are two things which are surely irrefutable: data...

Necessity is the mother of invention. The breakthroughs in record time for Covid-19 vaccines are the latest testimony to what can be...

Leading figures from business and politics gathering at the Invest North conference, which takes place online on March 24th, are to hear...

IDM has been appointed to deliver a major new data analysis project among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities to help understand...

IDM has become one of the main backers of Invest North, a major new conference and exhibition bringing together decision makers and creat...

With each passing day forecasters are attributing different letters and shapes to represent the UK’s economic recovery from COVID-19, plo...

Vocational qualifications and their associated careers are, by default, inadvertently and unfortunately stigmatised from the outset.

Science and technology is more or less unchallenged at the vanguard of how economists think the country should approach the future.

What has the pandemic told us about the sector in the UK and the nation’s bio-security? how can we marshal our healthcare resources more ...

Graduate retention data has become a badge of honour in the economic development story. High numbers equals attractiveness to talent.

IDM supports The English Cities Fund on landmark Salford regeneration scheme.

In the UK regions ‘Whitehall’ has long been a by-word for scepticism about policy created in faraway London. It can be loaded with the id...

Universities are in the process of gathering evidence and creating documentation to support the submissions to REF, the system for assess...

As a nation, our productivity ‘problem’ is well-documented. In fact, the Office for National Statistics reported a mere 0.2% growth in ec...

Comparing NHS Trusts in Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle and Salford from December 2018 through to the end of February 2019, the va...