In November 2012, Tomohito Nakajima from Sanno University, Tokyo and Dr Hiroyuki Shimizu from Chiba University visited St Chad’s to discuss the contribution that social enterprise can make to the regeneration of areas which have suffered from economic decline and industrial restructuring. Professor Tony Chapman has been working with his Japanese colleagues in Tokyo and Yamagata for the last eight years comparing the experiences of social enterprise in very different policy and fiscal environments. A recent publication, The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration includes a chapter which is drawn from this long-term study.

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