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Digital economy

The UK tech sector employs over 1.7 million people and adds over £150bn to the UK economy every year. Companies in the digital economy apply their tech and expertise to solve problems and enhance day to day services, providing benefits for consumers across food delivery, health, energy, and many more sectors. At techUK, our aim is to ensure the UK remains one of the best places to start and grow a tech firm with benefits for our people, society, economy and planet.

Featured insights

 

techUK's Seven Tech Priorities and polling from Public First

techUK has created its Seven Tech Priorities for the next Government to outline what can be done to overcome key barriers to technological innovation and deployment. The Priorities are supported by polling of 250 tech sector leaders from Public First about the current state of the UK tech sector.

Read the Priorities and polling here

Key news and insights

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PS24/16: What’s confirmed for the regulation of Critical Third Party Services in the Financial Services Sector?

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Autumn Budget 2024: what was in it for tech and science scale-ups?

 

 

The UK tech sector in the 2020s

A profile of the UK’s tech sector and the benefits our sector and techUK’s members can bring to the UK in the 2020s

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Get involved

All techUK's work is led by our members - keep in touch or get involved by joining one of the programmes below.

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Policy and Public Affairs

techUK's policy and public affairs function makes the case to government and policymakers across Westminster, Whitehall, Brussels and the devolved nations on the most pressing issues facing businesses and the tech sector.

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Tech and Innovation

techUK’s Technology and Innovation Programme explores key transformative technologies driving the UK’s digital economy, society and Industry 4.0 including AI, digital identity, cloud, data analytics and emerging technologies such as quantum and RPA. By exploring the convergence of technologies and identifying opportunities to drive adoption and deployment and conducting horizon scanning to identify future technology trends it ensures techUK remains relevant as the technology industry evolves.

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Communications Infrastructure and Services

techUK brings together government, the regulator, telecom companies and its stakeholders to help the UK maximise the benefits of adopting advanced communications services, maintain confidence in the security and resilience of our networks, and explore future telecoms. We do so to lower the cost to the sector of deployment, spur innovation and unlock value for all parties in connectivity. This is delivered through a mix of thought leadership, multilateral engagement and ecosystem building.

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Market Access

The techUK Market Access Programme helps members understand, shape, and comply with the increasingly complex array of regulations and laws that underpin international trade. We work with government officials and legal experts to help members understand and shape policy around standards, technical regulations, sanctions, trade policy and export controls, subjects tech firms need to be on top of to trade internationally.

Here are the five reasons you should join the Policy and Public Affairs programme.

Learn about the value members get from our work.

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What our members say: Vincenzo Rampulla, Director, WPI Strategy on policy and procurement.

Vincenzo Rampulla, Director, WPI Strategy discusses how techUK helps members to engage with policymakers, helping them to get to grips with the opportunities and risks of new technologies. He shares the value he gets from techUK membership including the rich community, networking, and collaboration. Watch now. 


Neil Ross

Neil Ross

Associate Director, Policy, techUK

Samiah Anderson

Samiah Anderson

Head of Digital Economy, techUK

Mia Haffety

Mia Haffety

Policy Manager - Digital Economy, techUK