| ANC | Action for Neighbourhood Change (Canada) |
| CCR | Cardiff Capital Region |
| CJC | Corporate Joint Committee |
| COSLA | Convention of Scottish Local Authorities |
| DSU | Documento Strategico Unitario (Unitary Strategic Document, Piedmont region of Italy) |
| ERDF | European Regional Development Fund |
| ESF | European Social Fund |
| ETC | Economy, Treasury and Constitution group of the Welsh Government |
| EU | European Union |
| GRW | Gemeinschaftsaufgabe "Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur" (Joint Task for the Improvement of the Regional Economic Structure, Germany) |
| GVA | Gross Value Added |
| LTIB | Long-term insights briefing |
| NUTS | Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPS | Our Public Service (Ireland) |
| R&D | Research and development |
| REF | Regional Economic Framework |
| RSP | Regional Skills Partnership |
| RTP | Regional Transport Plan |
| SDP | Strategic Development Plan |
| SPF | Shared Prosperity Fund |
| TIA | Territorial impact assessment |
| TL | Territorial level |
| UDAs | Urban Development Agreements (Canadian cities) |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| USP | Unique selling proposition |
| WEFO | Welsh European Funding Office |
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