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Our mission is to build a dynamic and competitive UK economy by: creating the conditions for business success; promoting innovation, enterprise and science; and giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed. To achieve this we will foster world-class universities and promote an open global economy.
New Industry, New Jobs – an active industrial strategy for Britain – is at the heart of BIS’s mission. It’s about the British Government actively working to ensure our people and businesses are equipped to compete and win in the global economy emerging from this downturn. Read more about New Industry, New Jobs and the cross-government approach for supporting sustainable economic growth.
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Preparing Impact Assessments
1 Apr 2010
Guidance, tools and templates to help policy-makers across the UK government to prepare Impact Assessments (IAs).
Digital Britain
1 Apr 2010
The goal of the Digital Britain programme is to secure the UK’s position as one of the world’s leading digital knowledge economies.
Economics Papers series
1 Apr 2010
BIS places analysis at the heart of policy-making. Its analysis and evidence base is made publicly available through a series of Economics Papers that set out the thinking underpinning policy development.
National Skills Audit and a More Responsive Skills System
1 Apr 2010
The department welcomes the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' first National Skills Audit which provides a high level assessment of labour market trends and current and future skills needs. The skills audit is helping us create a more responsive skills system that delivers the skills needed for future economic growth.
Skills for Growth
1 Apr 2010
Skills for Growth is a national strategy for economic growth and individual prosperity. It takes some important decisions and marks a radical shift in some of the priorities of our skills system.
Benchmark your innovation performance
1 Apr 2010
Most business leaders agree that in an increasingly competitive global economy, companies that fail to innovate will not survive. But they also recognise that there are various levels of innovation
Skills Funding Agency
1 Apr 2010
BIS is transforming the skills system with the creation of the Skills Funding Agency, which, from April 2010, has become the single funding provider for adult skills in England outside of higher education.
Manufacturing and Materials Unit
1 Apr 2010
About the work of the Manufacturing and Materials Unit, including the bi-monthly Hot Issues magazine.
Guidance and good practice
1 Apr 2010
Procurement and skills
1 Apr 2010
BIS is leading a cross-Government programme of work to ensure we make full use of our procurement to improve the skills of the nation’s workforce.
Sector Skills Councils
1 Apr 2010
Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) are independent, employer led, UK wide organisations designed to build a skills system that is driven by employer demand.
Vocational qualifications are changing
1 Apr 2010
To help people get the skills and qualifications that employers need, changes are being made to vocational, or work related, qualifications. The changes will bring benefits for learners, employers, providers and Awarding Organisations.
Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate
1 Apr 2010
The Employment Agency Standards Inspectorate (EAS) works with employment agencies and employers to raise standards within the industry and ensure compliance with employment rights, particularly for vulnerable agency workers
Services: Professional and Business
1 Apr 2010
BIS is working with the professional and business services sector, as part of the Government’s Growth Agenda, to establish the priorities for government actions to support its growth, innovation and competitiveness over the next decade. BIS published an interim report on 22 March. This work builds on the Department’s earlier analysis in the “Innovation in Services” report, published in 2008. It also follows the 2009 report for HM Treasury of the Professional Services Global Competitiveness Group, chaired by Sir Michael Snyder.
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