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Building our Industrial Strategy

How innovation can transform our towns and cities

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The Future of Mobility Grand Challenge is driving a profound change in how we move people, goods and services around our towns and cities. Professor Warren Manning from the University of Derby looks at the momentum the strategy could provide for innovation in the way we do business.

Why thinking local really matters in delivering a national Industrial Strategy

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: Business environment, Good work, Grand Challenges, Ideas, Infrastructure, People, Places, Productivity, Strategy
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The government threw down a gauntlet to Local Enterprise Partnerships to deliver regional business growth and innovation when it published its Industrial Strategy White Paper last November. Here, Christine Gaskell explains the importance of Local Industrial Strategies.

Universities as a facilitator for place-based Industrial Strategies

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Earlier this year, YU’s Board of Vice-Chancellors agreed that YU should seek to widen and deepen the collective role of universities in place-based development and the Industrial Strategy.

Recently, YU held a roundtable in Leeds with Universities UK (UUK), which brought together universities, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs), combined authorities, government and national research funding agencies.

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Our modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK.

This blog explains what we're doing and showcases the stories of businesses, academia and civil society working to make the Industrial Strategy a reality.

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