techUK is holding this briefing event for members to feed in to techUK's Industrial Strategy Response. 

The Government has launched its Industrial Strategy Green Paper, a summary of which can be found on the techUK website, and has opened a consultation to collect views. techUK is planning to respond to this consultation, and our initial draft can be requested from [email protected]. 

techUK is hosting this webinar to give the chance for members to feed their ideas in directly, as well as to ask any questions.

The draft consultation response is structured in the following way:

  • Chapter One: The Key Growth Sectors.
    • This will be our pitch for which sub-sectors should get sector-specific plans. Initially, these will be based off of the Five Strategic Technologies of AI, Quantum, Future Telecoms, Life Sciences and Semiconductors. There is then a very high threshold for proving a sub-sector should get a deal as part of the strategy, which includes displaying evidence it makes an appreciable contribution to the UK economy and that Government could effectively intervene in the area. We will make the case by going through each of the eight 'high-growth sectors' and making the case for technologies where they best fit (e.g semiconductors under advanced manufacturing)
  • Chapter Two: The pro-Business Environment for tech
    • This chapter will be where we outline the 'horizontals' that will enable the growth of the wider tech sector through cross-cutting policy interventions. These including looking at topics such as infrastructure and regulation
  • Chapter Three: Place
    • This chapter concerns the development of certain places through the industrial strategy. We'll identify three tiers of places, tier one being places that are competitive on a world scale (London and the SE), tier two being places that compete well against Europe (Manchester, Edinburgh) and tier three are places that are ripe to do better with the right support (Liverpool, Belfast, Cardiff). We'll also look to identify where certain technologies have strong clusters.
  • Chapter Four: What the strategy could do better on
    • This will be the critical chapter. That's not to say that the other chapters will shy away from justifiable criticism of the Strategy, but here we plan to really make the case for wider digital adoption as being a fundamental productivity-booster the Strategy largely ignores. We'll also look to include lines on compute infrastructure, cyber and other places where the Government's draft is not getting fundamentals right.
  • Chapter Five: Institutions and working with business
    • This is where we'll make the case for the Government to work with us and business to implement the strategy, highlighting the existing infrastructure we have to do this.

We welcome any and all feedback members have, particularly as we have prepared only an initital draft designed to crowd in member feedback. 

If you have any questions about this then please get in touch with [email protected] and [email protected]

 

Archie Breare

Archie Breare

Public Affairs Manager, techUK

Neil Ross

Neil Ross

Associate Director, Policy, techUK

 

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