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Jon  Sussex; Agnė  Ulytė; Susan  Guthrie; Marco  Hafner; Erez  Yerushalmi; Devika  Kapoor; Bhavya  Singh; Imogen   Wade; Saoirse   Moriarty; Anna Louise   Todsen

doi:10.3310/nihropenres.1115350.1

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Sussex J, Ulytė A, Guthrie S et al. Near and far. The NIHR’s regional and national economic impacts [version 1; not peer reviewed]. NIHR Open Res 2026, 6:149 (document) (https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.1115350.1)

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Near and far. The NIHR’s regional and national economic impacts

Jon Sussex¹, Agnė Ulytė¹, Susan Guthrie¹, Marco Hafner¹, Erez Yerushalmi², Devika Kapoor¹, Bhavya Singh¹, Imogen Wade¹, Saoirse Moriarty³, Anna Louise Todsen¹

Published 12 Sep 2026 (https://doi.org/10.3310/nihropenres.1115350.1)

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¹ RAND Europe, Cambridge, England, UK
² Birmingham City University, Business School, Birmingham, UK
³ University College London, London, UK

Copyright © 2026 Sussex J et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Near and far. The NIHR’s regional and national economic impacts
[version 1; not peer reviewed]

Jon Sussex¹, Agnė Ulytė¹, Susan Guthrie¹, Marco Hafner¹, Erez Yerushalmi², Devika Kapoor¹, Bhavya Singh¹, Imogen Wade¹, Saoirse Moriarty³, Anna Louise Todsen¹

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¹ RAND Europe, Cambridge, England, UK
² Birmingham City University, Business School, Birmingham, UK
³ University College London, London, UK

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Publicly funded health research, Economic impact of health research, Return on research investment, Regional economic development, Regional spillover effects, Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, Public research and development (R&D), Research, innovation and productivity, Health gains and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)

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