The UK's persistent regional economic divide is sustained by self-reinforcing cycles of investment and human capital flight. Key drivers of this uneven development include the geographical concentration of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), the 'brain drain' of highly skilled graduates to the South-East, unequal public Research & Development (R&D) investment, and the clustering of the high-tech quaternary sector.
Analyse how two of these factors have contributed to uneven development within the UK.