Cars, planes and biochemist winners to benefit from UK's new industrial strategy

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By Gavin van Marle

12/09/2012

Can it be true? Is the UK finally going to get some sort of long-term, planned industrial strategy? This report from The Telegraph outlines some of the measures that the UK business secretary Vince Cable is set to announce next week. Crucial to the plan is the building up of the country’s second-tier suppliers and developing the localised supply chain. Some 3,000 regulations that currently inhibit the investment in and development of small- and medium-sized enterprises are expected to be scrapped.

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