Making industry greener – and stronger.
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Can UK business compete in an international green subsidy race?
Have you found the answer yet?
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The expensive task of cementing the UK’s status as a science superpower will need to have transformative benefits
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Urgent intervention is needed to secure H&W – and other strategic UK industrial assets – before key skills and capacity are irretrievably lost.
British Steel workers face an uncertain post-industrial future.
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The experience of former industrial heartlands offers lessons in how to revitalise communities when big industries close.
Good jobs will go with a no-deal Brexit.
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The government’s £1.6 billion Stronger Towns Fund will be insufficient compensation for the effects of a no-deal Brexit.
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There is a plethora of highly troubling issues facing the global economy that are caused, in part, by globalisation.
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Buttons are just one part of a steady hollowing out of the UK’s manufacturing supply chain since the 1970s.
Growing vines in Kent, part of a cluster of wineries making a success out of white and sparkling wines in southern England.
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Location counts when it comes to sustainable development.
Future gazing.
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Brexit, bots and jobs and bitcoin are set to dominate economics news in 2018.
In a state of disrepair.
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The 20th century was marked by a painful decline in UK shipbuilding, but it’s time to leave the past behind.
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A new division tasked with delivering the country’s economic goals should be the first step.
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As the government moves ahead with its industrial plan, a new report signals it will have to start doing things differently.
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From Winston Churchill to the Industrial Strategy Commission: laying down the markers for success.
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A weak pound is likely to lure more international bidders to UK shores. Time then to make sure we have our defences in place.
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Theresa May’s plan to boost UK competitiveness risks exposing flaws in the higher education sector.
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The foundations are shaky after the previous regime, but there are reasons to be optimistic about Theresa May’s initiative.
Softer than she seems.
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The UK government’s inability to devise a fundamentally new economic policy is why it will likely fudge a soft Brexit.