How BIS is driving growth
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Seven key areas of Government action will underpin our drive to restore strong, sustainable, long-term growth:
- Supporting enterprise and entrepreneurial energy;
- Fostering knowledge creation and its application as innovation;
- Helping people develop the skills and capabilities to reach their personal and economic potential;
- Investing in the infrastructure required to support a modern economy;
- Ensuring open and competitive markets allowing business to grow;
- Building on our industrial strengths in sectors where we have particular expertise and investing to foster new comparative advantages;
- Ensuring a strategic role for Government in markets that allows us as a nation to capitalise on new opportunities.
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How can businesses benefit?
The Government’s strategies including our £750m Strategic Investment Fund provide support for businesses to start growing now:
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Developing the vision
The plan to shape our economic recovery and together build a stronger, fairer and more prosperous country.
An active industrial strategy to equip people and businesses to compete in the global economy.
Support to individuals, families and businesses to help you through the downturn more quickly, strongly and fairly
Key strategies
A vision for giving people and businesses the skills they need to help drive economic growth.
Universities will play an important role in securing the country’s economic recovery and long term prosperity.
Helping UK manufacturers seize the opportunities provided by emerging technologies.
Equipping British businesses and workers for the transition to a low carbon economy.
Sets out plans to transform the UK environment for life sciences companies.
The Digital Economy will drive future industrial capability and competitiveness.
A national framework to ensure a coordinated approach to regional and local growth in England
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