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.
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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.
Recent Meetings and
Papers
| Date |
Subject |
Papers |
| 26 Jul 10 |
Group planning meeting |
Report
Submission: Britain in the Knowledge Economy
Submission: A Migration & HR Transfer Policy |
| 08 Feb 10 |
New Vision, New Policies for UK
Audiovisual - A Briefing for Parliamentary Candidates - Joint with BSAC |
Report
Presentations
[mp3] (27.5MB)
Questions
& Answers
[mp3] (37.1MB) |
| 10 Dec 09 |
Smarter Britain: Can technology help
government deliver better, more efficient public services? - An event
for Parliamentary Candidates |
Presentations
[mp3] (34MB)
Questions & Answers
[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
Report |
| 02 Jul 09 |
The UK's Digital Route to Recovery |
|
| 04 Feb 09 |
Group Forward Planning Meeting |
Summary
Report |
Group Outputs (Papers and Briefings)
Other Relevant Documents and Links
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