On 27 November the UK government presented a new industrial strategy to tackle the country’s ongoing productivity woes since the financial crisis and to try to reassure business as Brexit inexorably approaches. Integral to the strategy are four sector agreements (sector deals) that ‘dust-down’ the public-private partnerships, which have been ‘forgotten’ since the Thatcher years.
Construction, artificial intelligence, automotives, and life sciences are the four sectors to have signed public-private collaboration ‘sector deals’ with the UK government, and according to the government’s UK industrial strategy that was revealed on 27 November other agreements may well follow. Initially introduced as part of the industrial policy’s ‘green paper’ in January 2017, sector deals of this type are unheard of in the new ultra-free market UK because they involve tangible State suppo
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