How best to monitor relevant economic developments in the IS-8 and frontier industries where emerging sectors are not well defined or not well captured in conventional data sources and industrial classifications?
Background
The Industrial Strategy is not a statement of policy at a single point in time, but a live strategy that will evolve and respond to economic, technical, and societal changes over the next decade. Effective ongoing M&E will be essential to learning the lessons from implementation and evolving the strategy in response to delivery progress and relevant developments in the UK and global economy.
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