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Will Lord

@WJBLord

11 months

Extraordinary admission from one of the architects of austerity.

Ben Chu

@BenChu_

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🚨 Austerity update 🚨 "With hindsight we probably should have taken advantage [of low interest rates] and borrowed more when times were more stable...and invested more." Former HMT permanent secretary (05-16) Nicholas Macpherson on Radio 4 Analysis ...

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Thrilled to be starting a new job today as policy lead on "place" in the Industrial Strategy Unit at the Department for Business and Trade. A hugely exciting time to be working on such a critical agenda.

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3 years

A bit of personal news: after a fantastic time at UKRI, I'm moving to a job at the new Levelling-Up Unit in the Cabinet Office, where I'll be working on innovation policy.

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11 months

The calibre of Whitehall's leadership will probably decline in coming decades as pay erodes. An SCS increasingly made up of people whose parents could afford to buy them houses in London.

Alex Thomas

@AlexGAThomas

11 months

A consequence of real terms pay cuts in the civil service - with SCS falling furthest behind... This is an SCS1 post which would have been more market competitive 15 years ago. Pay restraint & lack of flexibility means harder to get skills in as well as leading to grade inflation

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10 months

"Fundamentally, the British dream is not owning your own home, it is owning someone else's." Delicious line in a great @duncanrobinson piece on British landlords.

To understand Britain, watch “Homes Under the Hammer”

Inside the dream factory

www.economist.com

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1 year

Lots of truth @TorstenBell 's piece on Britain's distracted approach to the problems of the day. A surprising number of policy people think Manchester's economy is essentially fixed and the city gets more than its "fair share" of investment.

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1 year

Nothing can beat the "moment Robert De Niro stopped caring about his career" graph.

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@KhoaVuUmn

1 year

Apparently, all men have a favorite economic graph. Spill it, gents.

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1 year

I've said it before, but if Labour go ambitious on planning reform we can expect the Tories to become a militantly nimby party. Look at Sunak's response at PMQs!

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10 months

Fascinating episode on the statecraft of a new Labour government, with lessons from the last one from Sally Morgan. Ruthless prioritisation, proper cross-departmental working, and a functional centre of government all utterly necessary for success.

The Power Test

@ThePowerTest

10 months

Tony Blair’s former Political Secretary Baroness Morgan tells @ayeshahazarika & @Samfr delivering in government is all about leadership and relationships & what it’s like to transition from opposition. Insights also from @instituteforgov 's @DrHannahWhite .

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2 years

Starting a new job outside the civil service tomorrow. I've loved my time there: from Local Industrial Strategies to the Levelling Up White Paper. I strongly suspect I'll be back one day, and like any organisation, it's got its good and bad quirks.

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2 years

A bit of personal news: from mid-December, I'll be moving to a new job as Head of Government Relations at @UKAeroInstitute . Can't wait to get stuck in and do my bit for the UK's brilliant aerospace industry!🛫

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@WJBLord

4 months

Local Industrial Stategies are back, baby! This version will have more chance of sticking given they'll be led by Mayors rather than LEPs. But they'll need meaningful funding levers and cross-Whitehall support to succeed this time around.

Starmer invites Labour mayors to develop 10-year local growth plans

The Labour leader accused the Tories of failing to fulfil their pledge to reduce regional inequalities.

www.independent.co.uk

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@WJBLord

2 years

Some real treasures on display at the @UkNatArchives treason exhibition. Highlights include the posthumous treason verdict for Richard III, Guy Fawkes' confession signature, the court records of Charles I's trial, and Patrick Pearse's last letter to his mother.

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1 year

Thoughtful and sober essay by @TomMcTague . Reminded me of Henry Tizard's 1949 remark: "We are not a great power, and never will be again ... We are a great nation, but if we continue to behave like a great power we shall soon cease to be a great nation."

In defence of Little England

King Charles doesn't need a great globetrotting tour

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@WJBLord

1 year

Very exciting announcement today as @Boeing and @TheAMRC launch a major R&D project backed by @UKAeroInstitute funding and a new Investment Zone. Excellent news for South Yorkshire and the UK's world-class aerospace sector ✈️

The University of Sheffield

@sheffielduni

1 year

Today we’re launching @TheAMRC ’s largest ever R&D project. The COMPASS facility is part of the new South Yorkshire Investment Zone - the UK’s first investment zone focussed on advanced manufacturing - and it’ll help reduce the environmental impact of air travel. 🧵 1/4

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5 years

It's my final week in the Cities and Local Growth Unit. Sad to be leaving such a fascinating policy area and brilliant set of colleagues, but also very excited to be joining UKRI's strategy team in the next couple of weeks!

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1 year

I've written a piece for @thefabians on what Labour's science and technology policy should look like 🌹🔬 The Conservatives have made R&D a top governing priority. What should Labour’s response be? I argue for three things:

New white heat - Fabian Society

The Labour party has a bold vision for a more prosperous, green, and equal United Kingdom. Few things will be more critical to achieving the national missions set out by Keir Starmer than ambitious...

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

3 years

It's a really exciting time to work on this agenda: post-pandemic recovery, big ambitions for science and innovation policy, Net Zero, and a new focus on resilience are going to have huge impacts on places across the UK. I can't wait to get stuck in.

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@WJBLord

6 years

Some wonderful artworks on display at the #BurneJones at @Tate Britain! "The Wine of Circe" was a personal favourite.

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@WJBLord

11 months

WWSJKS (What Would Sir John Kingman Say)

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@WJBLord

5 months

Thrilled to be published in @thefabians ' 140th anniversary Fabian Review, exploring what Labour's science policy can learn from the Blair and Brown years 🌹🔬 A few highlights...

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@WJBLord

2 years

Finally: the most competent, dedicated officials I've worked with are those in local government. It's scandalously undervalued in this country.

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@WJBLord

2 years

Some of the coolest jobs in British science and technology have gone live today. Would be brilliant to see some younger talent apply for these roles. Perhaps one for @UKRI_News Future Leaders Fellows?

ARIA

@ARIA_research

2 years

Take your place in history. Apply now to be an ARIA Programme Director >

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9 months

Very exciting news that Cambridge-based chipmaker Pragmatic has secured £182m to become the UK's biggest semiconductor manufacturer, expanding its operations in the North East 🏭

UK backs chipmaker Pragmatic to boost domestic tech manufacturing

The £182mn financing sets Cambridge-based group on track to become Britain’s biggest semiconductor supplier by volume

www.ft.com

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

1 year

Industrial strategy is back on the agenda. I've written a piece for the @BennettInst reflecting on Labour and the Conservatives' economic strategies. For all the talk of a new Butskellite-style consensus, the parties' plans are actually quite different.

Bennett Institute for Public Policy

@BennettInst

1 year

The Conservatives and Labour are each developing a distinct strategy to grow the British economy. In a new piece, @WJBLord discusses their strengths and weaknesses and recommends where they should focus their attentions.

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1 year

As far as I know, the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS & Science don't have big "complex and nuanced" strategy documents. They pick their goals and act through huge new investments. Contrast that with Britain's love of churning out glossy bits of paper without much in them 🤷🏼‍♂️

George Dibb

@GeorgeDibb

1 year

To try and finally put an end to the question 'just how many plans for growth have this government had?' I am pleased to announce.... 📢🏭THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF UK INDUSTRIAL STRATEGIES (POST-2010)🧑‍🏭📢 (I'll expand this thread as and when we get new ones)

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@WJBLord

5 years

Also seeing Hogarth's (in)famous 'Gin Lane' at John Soane's got me thinking of perhaps my favourite @BBCInOurTime episode.

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1 year

Tweets like this from members of the city and university's leadership are instructive. If Cambridge doesn't want to grow, fine. But maybe the state should invest more of its R&D funding in places that do.

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@WJBLord

2 years

In Delphi, looking over the path where Themistocles, Croesus and others walked up to consult the Oracle. Touch of the divine about the place.

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5 years

I'm starting a new job at UKRI next week and am very much in the market for good papers and articles about science & innovation policy, emerging technologies, missions and more. Any suggestions Twitter?

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

1 year

Lots of green industrial policy reading today! Latest is this great analysis from @GeorgeDibb and @LukeSMurphy on the UK's dire record on investment. This is what a broken economic model looks like.

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@WJBLord

1 year

This is exciting: a consortium of Midlands universities are planning to create a £250m investment vehicle for science and technology spinouts.

Midlands universities create £250mn tech investment vehicle

Spinout fund to help build new businesses, create skilled jobs and boost regional growth

www.ft.com

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@WJBLord

10 months

The new Advanced Manufacturing Plan has just dropped 👇🏭 I've got a professional interest, but it's a genuinely chunky set of interventions. Perhaps Ms Heeves lives after all...

Advanced manufacturing plan

The advanced manufacturing plan sets out the actions we are taking to be the best place in the world to start and grow a manufacturing business.

www.gov.uk

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@WJBLord

1 year

Traumatic flashbacks to my time in Whitehall.

Esther Webber

@estwebber

1 year

On that note, I hear an email went round several departments from no10 asking for ideas about how to fix inflation by midday today. Time's running out lads!

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1 year

Terrific piece on industrial strategy and government's tendency towards bitty funding pots and over-governance. Two additional critiques of UK policy I'd add to the mix...

Giles Wilkes

@Gilesyb

1 year

New blogpost: we debate UK industrial strategy as if it were something incredibly potent and dangerous. If only.

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1 year

Extraordinary speech. A tectonic shift in economic policymaking is underway. Up to other countries to get with the programme, or be left behind.

Todd N. Tucker

@toddntucker

1 year

What is the Biden administration’s international economic agenda? National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan ( @JakeSullivan46 ) kicks off a @BrookingsInst talk on the New Washington Consensus.

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1 year

In this morning's Politico London Playbook. I feel this needs further investigation, because if it is true the university in question deserves to be stripped of its public funding.

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1 year

David Willetts reflects on the Eight Great Technologies and his time as Science Minister. A story of the UK building promising niches in the face of policy churn, Whitehall restrictions, and challenges with scaling and adoption (particularly in the NHS).

The Eight Great Technologies 10 years on - Policy Exchange

Download Publication Online Reader David Willetts, former Universities and Science Minister, reviews the progress and outcomes of the “Eight Great Technologies” initiative that was first outlined in...

policyexchange.org.uk

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

7 months

Fascinating article on why the university-led science model delivers fewer productivity gains than the old corporate R&D labs. Especially challenging for the UK given how unusually reliant on Higher Education our R&D system is.

Universities are failing to boost economic growth

Too often they generate ideas that no one knows how to use

www.economist.com

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@WJBLord

2 years

Finally got round to this excellent @CentreforCities report on Britain's housebuilding malaise. The 300,000 new homes a year target is badly out of date. If we really want to tackle the problem, 442,000-654,000 per year is needed. 👷‍♂️🏘

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@WJBLord

2 years

Really good piece on the bizarre ruling over the Tate Modern's viewing gallery. Feels like this problem has been getting worse in recent years.

Olly Wainwright

@ollywainwright

2 years

Why the Tate Modern ruling marks a disastrous step for the future of our cities

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1 year

Finally got round to the @edballs @annastansbury and @DanTurnerSY paper all the cool kids in regional policy are reading. It's very very good! Long story short: UK regional inequality is far from all about skills. Transport and R&D matter too.

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@WJBLord

5 years

Tremendously helpful and interesting presentation by @ndrlee and @siri_arntzen on testing innovation in the real world. Everyone wants a testbed/living lab/sandbox. But what actually are they, and what are they best used for? #IGL2019

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@WJBLord

9 months

Important @UKRI_News analysis on the sustainability of the research base. Inflation and low cost-recovery rates led to a ~£5bn deficit in the cost of university research in 21/22, requiring more cross-subsidy from international fees and other activities.

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@WJBLord

6 years

Was bowled over by the @britishlibrary Anglo-Saxons exhibition! Seeing the Domesday Book and the world's only manuscript of Beowulf were real highlights #BLAngloSaxons

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@WJBLord

2 years

Quick thoughts about today's departmental changes: 1. UKRI is potentially going to represent the vast majority of DSIT's budget. Will make for an interesting department/NDPB relationship. 2. What happens to OSTS?

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2 years

Only day 3 and Kenya is completely spoiling us.

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7 months

An extraordinary success story from @ForgemastersHQ . An £80m loan to Forgemasters was cancelled by the Coalition in 2010. Then it was was nationalised in 2021. Now it's developing critical technology for manufacturing SMRs. Quite the journey.

Welding method drastically cuts time to make mini nuclear reactors

Sheffield Forgemasters uses electron beams that reduce the process from 150 days to two hours

www.thetimes.com

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@WJBLord

1 year

Gove reportedly drawing up plans to build 250,000 new houses in Cambridge over 20 years. Bold, ambitious, and almost certainly not happening.

Cambridge to become Europe’s Silicon Valley — with 250,000 extra homes

Michael Gove is drawing up proposals to turn Cambridge into Britain’s Silicon Valley, with as many as 250,000 new homes built over the next two decades and the

www.thetimes.com

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5 years

@LWLies Memento

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3 years

Beautiful North Berwick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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1 year

The 10 most terrifying words in the English language: "I'm from the Cabinet Office, and I have a commission".

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3 years

Really interesting piece on what R&D policy for a place looking to level-up should be. A proactive local university combined with support for innovation and diffusion all make the difference.

Higher Education Policy Institute

@HEPI_news

3 years

Place-based research funding: a perspective from a place seeking to level-up contributed by Mary Stuart and @LizShutt

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6 years

At the @NHM_London

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2 years

This is dire.

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1 year

Very good piece in the @LRB on the great Mary Renault. A sensational writer who refused to fit into neat categories.

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@WJBLord

7 months

Chunky update to the Science and Technology Framework announced today. DSIT must be busiest department in Whitehall right now! In her recent @sciencecampaign lecture, @uksciencechief said she hoped the framework would survive any political changes.

The UK Science and Technology Framework: update on progress (9 February 2024)

www.gov.uk

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@WJBLord

2 years

December in the city

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1 year

@gsoh31 Few things more cringe-inducing than whenever it's described as "the UK's Ivy League".

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6 months

If there's a lesson here, it's that an incoming Labour government will need to decide and execute its regional policy sharpish. Spend 2 years coming up with a new policy framework, and the opportunity to show progress by 2028/9 is lost.

Less than 20% of town regeneration projects completed in England, figures show

Exclusive: Plans either shelved or stalled despite forming part of flagship policy promise at last election

www.theguardian.com

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@WJBLord

5 years

Day 1 in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Mostly spent getting my bearings, appreciating some new African art and drinking lots of delicious viscous coffee.

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@WJBLord

2 months

Delighted to have written a review for @CSWnews of @ndrlee 's new book "Innovation for the Masses". An excellent guide for policymakers on how to combine a dynamic innovation economy with broad-based prosperity. Grounded in four fascinating case studies.

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3 years

This is interesting. We hear a lot about DARPA, but one of the most successful examples of US industrial policy is the Manufacturing Extension Partnerships: an adoption and diffusion programme.

Design Principles for American Industrial Policy

Economic efficiency is not enough. To succeed, industrial policies must create broad constituencies of beneficiaries.

issues.org

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

4 years

Attended an excellent @OPSIgov @IIPP_UCL "bootcamp" on Mission-Oriented innovation today. Really exciting to see so many inspiring examples from around the world, particuarly this one from @vinnovase #OPSIMissions #MOIN

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@WJBLord

5 years

Fantastic day visiting @TheAMRC today with @UKRI_News and @beisgovuk colleagues. A great opportunity to see its ambitions for achieving #NetZero and driving growth in Sheffield City-Region.

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5 years

Readout from the Council of Science and Technology: the PM reiterates the importance of R&D to the levelling-up agenda and challenges science to come up with "moonshots" where the UK should aim high.

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@WJBLord

1 year

An important data release from @ONS today on the regional distribution of public R&D funding. Previous GovERD stats only showed R&D *performed* in-house by government. This shows where all public R&D funding is invested.

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@WJBLord

2 years

Great piece on what the Levelling Up White Paper is looking to do on R&D.

Jennifer Williams

@JenWilliams_FT

2 years

Following on from that Northern Gritstone announcement last week, a piece from me looking at what these innovation accelerators in the levelling up white paper are all about:

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1 year

Barely 9 days after Gove said more homes were "desperately" needed in the UK.

Duncan Stott 🏗️🔰🇺🇦

@DuncanStott

1 year

164 new homes planned near Tunbridge Wells, 40% affordable, + landscape and biodiversity enhancements. Planning inspectorate said yes, government intervenes and says no.

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4 years

£186m from the Strength in Places Fund has been announced for 7 exciting R&D projects across the UK. "Levelling-up" in action. #StrengthInPlaces

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4 months

Northern Lights over Leeds.

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1 year

Regional policy is just as much about prosperity as it is equity. If you want the UK to be a wealthier and more dynamic country, you cannot afford to ignore the dire economic performance of regions outside London.

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1 year

This is very good on the rise and rise of self-service admin work. Raising a purchase order is one of the most baffling experiences of my professional life.

We are all secretaries now

Cost-cutting has left workers drowning in ‘self-service’ admin tasks — but AI might come to the rescue

www.ft.com

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@WJBLord

5 years

An excellent day's discussion on how we drive up R&D and innovation across the North through ambitious Local Industrial Strategies. Massive thanks to @IfMCambridge for organising!

Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)

@IfMCambridge

5 years

Our Policy Links team are in #Leeds today with @NPHinfo LEPs, @CommonsBEIS and @UKRI_News discussing the strengths of the region and the ways they can work together to approach innovation in their Local #IndustrialStrategy . #mfg #ukmfg #policy

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Secondly, still too centralised. If you want long-termism, local institutions tend to be more consistent than national ones. Greater Manchester and the West Midlands stuck to their Local Industrial Strategies long after Whitehall moved on. Give them more tools to deliver!

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11 months

British cities badly underperform. It's one of the biggest things holding us back. Meanwhile the PM comes out with stuff like this. Not a serious policy agenda.

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5 years

Fascinating thread from @Noahpinion . A "New Industrialism" is taking shape across the Atlantic through Elizabeth Warren's 2020 campaign.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

5 years

1/Today's @bopinion post is about why of all the candidates in the race, Elizabeth Warren feels like the one who could be the next FDR.

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A great initiative to grow R&D clusters. Between this, @innovateuk 's Launchpads in Tees Valley and Liverpool City-Region, STEP2 in Nottinghamshire, and the three Innovation Accelerators, lots of exciting place-based R&D investment coming out of @UKRI_News and BEIS at the moment.

Dr Helen Niblock

@helenniblock

2 years

We're exciting to launch the @EPSRC Placed-Based Impact Acceleration account competition. We're giving you plenty of time to build your ideas & consortia and have townhall events in November. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss the scope further

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Would thoroughly reccomend this @BritishAcademy_ report on UK science policy since 1916. Striking to see how the legacies of big decisions made decades ago (e.g. Rothschild in 1971, Guise in the 1980s) can still be felt today.

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@duncanrobinson Cheshire's always weirdly absent from the debate on regional inequality. Look how it stands out from the rest of the North!

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@TomMcTague @David_Goodhart Whisper it, but there's a lot of cross-party consensus on the roots of the problem and how you address it (devolution to city-regions, long term "missions", supporting innovation clusters). Turning that into sufficient action is another matter...

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2 years

Very bad news indeed if this funding isn't channelled back into R&D. Would be a very poor start for the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

CaSE

@sciencecampaign

2 years

The Gov have released details today that BEIS has surrendered to the Treasury £1.6b of funds which had been allocated for Horizon Europe association. This is a reversal of its previous position and a false start on ambitions to be a science superpower

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1 year

Enjoying some Deep Yorkshire.

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🇬🇧🛫🛬🇯🇵 Here we go!

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@bridges_tom And we wonder why regional policy is so bloody hard in this country.

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3 years

Awe-inspiring Glencoe.

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2 years

Wonder what happens to London's public sector, charities, universities, the Civil Service etc. when the generation that should be moving into leadership positions is simply priced out of the city.

Oliver Barnes

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2 years

Oh yeh the London property market is totally normal. What a chart!

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5 years

View from the hotel = not to shabby

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3 years

Had a fantastic two days zipping around Cambridge talking to academics, think tankers and commercialisation experts about innovation and how it really works. All thanks to the @CSciPol policy fellowship scheme!

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2 years

I've written a piece for the @BennettInst on Levelling Up one year on from the White Paper. What's gone well? Where has it fallen short? What does government need to do next?

Bennett Institute for Public Policy

@BennettInst

2 years

BLOG One year on since the #levellingup white paper was published to tackle inequalities between the UK’s most & least prosperous places, @WJBLord - a former advisor at @luhc - gives it an honest appraisal.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

1 year

Enjoyed this latest report from the Tony Blair Institute on AI. Makes the case for increased investment, big reforms to the Whitehall machine, and a new national laboratory focused on safe AI.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

2 years

Some wonderful works on display at the National Gallery's Lucien Freud exhibition. The fleshy, intimate later works are always compelling. But I also liked a lot of his earlier paintings. Very dreamlike.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

5 years

Delving into the myth and history of Troy at the @britishmuseum

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

6 years

@TruthAndMovies Prometheus had Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Kate Dickie, Idris Elba and Sean Harris. Still couldn't save it.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

2 years

@stephenkb There's a caged football pitch right next to the path I take to get home. Every day I live in fear of the moment a ball will find its way over the edge while I'm walking by.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

3 years

Some good news to start your Easter 🔬

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

5 years

A very different kind of external engagement today. Great to speak to the students about all things science policy and see their brilliant ideas, from new apps for the elderly to VR classrooms!

STAHS

@STAHS

5 years

#STAHSYear9 are leading the way in STEAM innovation 🌫 We were delighted to welcome @wjblord from @UKRI_News to deliver a brilliant talk and judge the Youth Industrial Strategy Competition. There were some excellent ideas with the Edible Water Bottles crowned the overall winners.

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Will Lord

@WJBLord

1 year

The Highlands never fail to take your breath away 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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