The grow and level up the economy strategic priority is at the heart of the government’s agenda to spread opportunity across the UK. Transport has a crucial role to play, whether it be through improving connectivity across the United Kingdom and growing the economy by enhancing the transport network, on time and on budget. DfT has a number of specific interests in this space, notably our infrastructure projects, Places for Growth and our apprenticeships and skills work.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The CAA will overhaul its approach to innovation by setting up, for the first time, a transparent and focussed engagement platform to better enable innovators develop new products and services to come to market in the av...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY
The project focuses on enabling innovation in the aviation sector and developing roadmaps to make regulatory frameworks more responsive to innovation, which directly addresses the question.
This proposal is to set up an EPSRC Network for the UK Aerospace Research Consortium (UK-ARC) The primary aim of the UK-ARC Network is to accelerate UK-based technology advancement within priority aerospace and aviation...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: Cranfield University
The project aims to accelerate technology advancement in the aerospace and aviation sectors, which partially addresses the question about supporting innovation and skills development. However, it does not specifically mention the economic value of different parts of the aviation sector.
Aviation sector faces many challenges such as achieving technological breakthroughs, reducing its environmental impact and increasing the sector’s workforce skills while complying with new EU policies and priorities such...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
The project partially addresses the question by discussing the challenges in the aviation sector and the need for innovation and skills development, but does not provide specific economic values of different parts of the sector.