Frontier Reports and Briefings

Publications

Reports examine questions in depth. Briefings make an argument and its implications available more quickly. Frontier’s first nine-publication collection is in final production and will be released here.

Frontier Reports

Deeper analysis for sustained reading.

Reports combine evidence, implementation examples, international comparisons and practical propositions. Download links will be added when the final publication files have completed production and quality assurance.

Frontier Report

Productive Preservation

How heritage can build skills, enterprise and stronger local economies.

Forthcoming

Frontier Report · Create

Creating Businesses, Creating Employers

How Wales can broaden enterprise and enable ambition.

Forthcoming

Frontier Report · Connect

The Missing Middle

Building stronger Welsh SME ecosystems.

Forthcoming

Frontier Report · Keep

Keeping Value in Wales

Ownership, succession and indigenous productive capacity.

Forthcoming

Frontier Briefings

Shorter routes into important questions.

Briefings are written for policymakers and business leaders who need to understand the proposition, evidence and implications quickly.

Frontier Briefing

Create · Connect · Keep

A Framework for a Stronger Welsh SME Economy.

Forthcoming

Frontier Briefing

Unlocking Welsh Economic Potential

Lessons from global SME research.

Originally published: 5 December 2024 · Updated edition forthcoming

In final production

Frontier Briefing

Dragonomics

What co-operative and employee ownership can teach Wales.

Originally published: 3 March 2025 · Updated edition forthcoming

In final production

Frontier Briefing

Small-Scale, Big Impact

A Welsh blueprint for micro-factories.

Originally published: 25 April 2025 · Updated edition forthcoming

In final production

Frontier Briefing

Preserving Wales’s Heritage

Building skills and unlocking economic potential.

Originally published: 5 December 2024 · Updated edition forthcoming

In final production