What are the skills needed to facilitate the expansion of Industrial Strategy sectors and development of world-leading frontier industries? How do these needs vary across local labour markets? How may these evolve with technological developments, such as AI?
Background
The Industrial Strategy places skills at the heart of the UK’s growth ambitions. In an era of rapid technological change, the strength of the skills pipeline, from early education to digital literacy and leadership capability, will be pivotal. The government aims to enhance skills and increase access to talent. It is reforming the skills and employment support system to create a strong pipeline into the IS‑8 and future growth priorities, with opportunities for good jobs across the country. Building this future-ready workforce is essential for attracting globally mobile investment and enabling businesses to innovate and scale.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Supporting the Industrial Strategy
1) Developing Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses in the System, and What can be Done. The new Industrial Strategy must consider how the education system can create the general and specific skills needed by businesses toda...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
Why might this be relevant?
This project directly addresses the skills needed for the expansion of Industrial Strategy sectors and the variation across local labour markets.
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Teesside University and Enginuity KTP 22_23 R1
To develop and embed a skills-based data science driven Workforce Planning Toolkit for the Engineering and Manufacturing Sector, in order to create a skills foresighting service which will identify and respond to future ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY
Why might this be relevant?
While this project focuses on developing a skills-based data science driven Workforce Planning Toolkit for the Engineering and Manufacturing Sector, it does not directly address the broader skills needed for the expansion of Industrial Strategy sectors.
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Skills and Talent Insight Platform for PEMD
This project is to further develop our labour market analytics platform (Stratigens(tm)) to identify existing locations for PEMD skills and to identify adjacent skills pools that could be accessed by companies needing to...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: TALENT INTUITION LIMITED
Why might this be relevant?
This project focuses on developing a skills and talent insight platform for the PEMD sector, which is related to skills needed for the expansion of Industrial Strategy sectors, but does not cover the broader range of industries mentioned in the question.