‘Industrial strategy after the Brexit shock: an endangered species’
On Wednesday 27th
March (17:00-19:00), Dr Craig Berry is hosting the public event ‘Industrial
strategy after the Brexit shock: an endangered species’ with the support of
Future Economies and the British Academy.
All welcome; there is more information below, and you can register here.
Dr Craig Berry
Reader in Political Economy |
Assistant Director, Future Economies
Economics, Policy and
International Business
Manchester Metropolitan
University
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Industrial
strategy after the Brexit shock: an endangered species?
17:00, Wednesday
27 March, Manchester
In
2017 the government published its industrial strategy. Later this year Greater
Manchester will publish its local industrial strategy. But Brexit hangs over
these processes, and as we approach the closing of the Article 50 window, the
time is ripe to discuss whether the UK's national and local industrial
strategies will survive the shock of EU withdrawal.
Have we made enough
progress on industrial strategy since the financial crisis? Was the possibility
of a 'hard Brexit' taken into account when the strategy was devised, or it is
over before it really began? Will the industrial strategy achieve its goals
once the UK's relationships with the customs union and single market have been
severed, or at least transformed?
Join us for a discussion of where we are, and where we are
going, organised by Future
Economies (Manchester Metropolitan University) with the
support of the British
Academy. This lively panel event will feature a range of expert
speakers, including:
·
Andy Westwood -
Vice Dean for Social Responsibility and Professor of Government Practice in the
Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; also President of the OECD
Forum on Social Innovation, an expert adviser to the IMF, and member of the
Industrial Strategy Commission
·
Scott Lavery -
Lecturer in Politics and SPERI Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield;
author of British Capitalism After the Crisis
·
·
Neil McInroy -
Chief Executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies
·
·
Siân Errington -
Political Officer at Unite the Union, former adviser to the Labour Party on
industrial strategy
·
·
Christian Spence -
Head of Future Economies Analytics (Manchester Metropolitan University); former
Head of Policy and Research at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
·
More
speakers will be announced in due course.
