The UK Government has set out an ambitious ten-year Modern Industrial Strategy—a call to action for the nation’s scientific, creative, civic, and industrial leadership at a moment of profound global uncertainty.
A group of RSA Fellows believes this moment requires something unprecedented: a large-scale, national, deliberative civic process—built on decades of experience in deliberative democracy, public engagement, and systems thinking—that enables the country to respond with the Industrial Strategy, not merely to it.
This online panel discussion marks the formation moment of that national collaboration.
During the panel discussion, participants will:
The outcome of this session will be concrete:
The wider programme will also catalyse local conversations in regional clusters, helping businesses, institutions, and communities understand the Strategy and respond with clarity, legitimacy, and intent.
This is not another webinar. It is the starting point of a civic, academic, and industrial alignment that will help determine how the Modern Industrial Strategy is implemented—and who benefits from it.
If you care about how the UK navigates the next decade of industrial, technological, and social transformation, this is where that conversation begins.
We aim to do more than just respond to the Government. Our intention is to work with the grain of the strategy to mobilise support for its implementation in such a way that it leaves a lasting and positive long-term legacy not just on the UK economy but also on British society.
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