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EURIM Knowledge Economy Working Group

The group objective is to promote polices that foster, attract and retain industries that depend primarily on the knowledge of their employees and could move at short notice to wherever they can access the necessary talents. That access increasingly includes remote workers and those who may be working simultaneously for different employers around the world. The industries concerned include aerospace and pharmaceuticals as well as financial services and digital content (film, music etc.), creation and publishing. 

Introduction, Objectives and Strategy

Programme for 2010 and Forthcoming Meetings

Recent Meetings and Papers

Group Outputs (Papers and Briefings)

Other Relevant Documents and Links

Members Page – for meeting details, minutes, working drafts, and additional group information

Previous work programme for this group

 

 

Introduction, Objectives and Strategy

This group builds on past work on Intellectual Property Rights, (including the EU copyright and database directives) and more recent work on the issues that influence business location in the 21st century. Its first paper, "A Flourishing Innovation Economy - How the UK must attract and retain Knowledge Based Businesses" was well received.  But policy makers and advisors are not themselves familiar with pressures to compete globally and lack understanding as to how central and local Government policies, including regulatory and planning overheads and barriers, impact business decisions. They need ongoing support to ensure that legislation and regulation reflect economic realities for those who are being wooed around the world with financial incentives and investment in education and training to provide the workforce skills needed at all levels. We also have to persuade business leaders that working with their peers, to help improve policy formation and implementation, can be a better use of their time than shrinking local operations or moving overseas because their efforts to keep their UK base globally competitive have been frustrated.

Objectives
To identify and secure priority for the implementation of policies that will attract, retain and foster jobs in those industries that depend primarily on the knowledge of their employees.

Strategy
To improve the quality of political debate by identifying constituencies with current and potential “knowledge factories” (e.g. Universities, Science Parks and High Tech Industry Clusters), engaging the enlightened self-interest of the local MPs and Councils and persuading business leaders to help set up practical exercises to secure action in co-operation with other interested groups, both within EURIM and outside.

 

Work Programme for 2010

  • Educate parliamentary candidates: events targeted at prospective parliamentary candidates to communicate the importance of the knowledge economy and its relevance to jobs in their constituencies, given the globalised workforce management of today's high-knowledge businesses.

  • Brief newly elected MPs and identify those interested in using local (including in the context of national and European policy) economic growth as a core part of their future political careers.

  • Identify a critical mass of business leaders willing to work together to educate potential high-fliers from the new intake (as well as current senior politicians, officials and policy advisors) on the need to give priority to rapid action to pre-empt the haemorrhage of wealth creating employment to competitor nations, especially in the Americas and Asia.

Forthcoming Meetings
We plan to work with “Science, Technology & Innovation Partners LLP” on a programme of “cost-recovery” events at which current and former Chairmen, CEOs, Vice-Chancellors and Pro-Rectors can meet those who now represent the constituencies where their UK knowledge employees would like to continue to live and work in future years. Please e-mail eurim@eurim.org if you would like to participate.

We have also agreed to organise a joint (with the Communications Working Group and others) reception for MPs and UK MEPs on Intellectual Property Rights in the Online World. It is clear that the compromises in the Digital Economy Act - and the result of an overall inadequate understanding of the globalised nature of modern business activity - are leading to unexpected side-effects (e.g. hotel, cafe and community wifi networks being switched off) and the expectation is that we will work with Intellect, ISPA and others to organise briefing on possible ways forward.

Date Description
9 Sep 10 Group Meeting More Details...EURIM Members & Registered Observers Only

 

Recent Meetings and Papers

Date Subject Papers
26 Jul 10 Group planning meeting ReportEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only
Submission: Britain in the Knowledge EconomyEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only
Submission: A Migration & HR Transfer PolicyEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only
08 Feb 10 New Vision, New Policies for UK Audiovisual - A Briefing for Parliamentary Candidates - Joint with BSAC ReportEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only
PresentationsEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only [mp3] (27.5MB)
Questions & AnswersEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only [mp3] (37.1MB)
10 Dec 09 Smarter Britain: Can technology help government deliver better, more efficient public services? - An event for Parliamentary Candidates PresentationsEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only [mp3] (34MB)
Questions & AnswersEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only [mp3] (46MB)
14 Oct 09 Workshop to review proposed update to EURIM's Knowledge Economy paper: A Flourishing Innovation Economy: How the UK must attract & retain knowledge based businesses  
24 Sep 09 Workshop for Parliamentary Candidates on meeting voter expectations for improved public service at lower cost  
29 Jul 09 Planning meeting on programme of events targeted at parliamentary candidates Summary ReportEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only
02 Jul 09 The UK's Digital Route to Recovery  
04 Feb 09 Group Forward Planning Meeting Summary ReportEURIM Members & Registered Observers Only

 

Group Outputs (Papers and Briefings)

Outputs prior to 2008

 

Other Relevant Documents and Links

Date Title
Nov 09 Digital Economy Bill - http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2009-10/digitaleconomy.html
BIS Digital Economy Bill webpage -
www.bis.gov.uk/digitaleconomybill
Apr 09 The UK’s Digital Road to Recovery - http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23830/1/UK_Digital_recovery.pdf
Outputs prior to 2008

 

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