Very interesting item on the Today programme this morning that the new Enterprise zones announced today are to be linked to manufacturing activities.
It is also obvious that the United Kingdom is not producing enough engineers (and supporting them to create new companies). In part this is because the universities are run by academics (obviously) who have little sympathy with anything to do with "trade". In a back-to-the-future move perhaps we need a network of industry-focussed polytechnics that can concentrate on this area.
On the subject of manufacturing, this American report was very interesting: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-advanced-manufacturing-june2011.pdf
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