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Growth Team
ELECTRONICS 2015 - Making A Visible Difference
Implementing the Electronics Innovation and Growth Team
Report
DTI decided two years ago to bring together a team of electronics
industry leaders to look at the future of the sector in the UK.
This Electronics “Innovation and Growth Team”, or IGT,
published its report at the end of 2004 and made around 80 recommendations
for the Government and Industry to consider. A copy of the report
can be downloaded from this website.
A sector competitive analysis report "Competitiveness
in the UK Electronics Sector", commissioned to underpin
the work of the EIGT is also available via the downloads
page on this website.
The overall message from the report was a lack of any coherent
strategic voice for the electronics industry. The sector is fragmented
and virtually invisible to key policy makers, including the Regional
Development Agencies. As a result many worthy initiatives had
failed to succeed because of insufficient critical mass and the
ability to influence policy or address business opportunities
strategically. To address this DTI and the electronics industry
have worked together to set up the following strategic groups:
Electronics Leadership Council (ELC)
The Electronics Leadership Council is a small business-led group
whose role is to set a strategic agenda for the industry and to
oversee the implementation of the IGT report’s key recommendations.
Harry Tee (currently Chairman Dialight plc) is Chairman of the
Leadership Council, which met for the first time on 26th October
2005. Press
Release click here. The Council has set up four groups to
work on major issues identified by the EIGT report. These include:
skills; the supply chain; technology; and public procurement.
You can find more information about DTI’s work on procurement,
skills and technology in the electronics industry via the links
on the left hand menu.
As the Council develops its agenda, we will publish more information
about its work here.
UK Electronics Alliance (UKEA)
The EIGT report recommended that electronics industry stakeholders
needed to work more closely together with a unified voice whenever
possible. DTI have been working with those stakeholders since
April on bringing together the main trade associations to form
a UK Electronics Industry Alliance and agreement between the parties
and funding is now in place. The Alliance will help electronics
trade associations to work together on the IGT agenda and will
complement the work of the new Electronics Leadership Council.
The Alliance will meet for the first time on 15th December 2005.
Electronics Regulatory Group (ERG)
The Group’s role is to increase industry influence on EU
regulation. Comprising trade associations representatives and
officials from the DTI and other main regulatory departments that
impact on the electronics sector (Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs; Health and Safety Executive; Home Office;
and Treasury), the Regulatory Group will bring together these
industry and government experts to help industry identify the
future challenges and opportunities that will be created by regulation.
The Group met for the first time on 17th October 2005.
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