Local Industrial Strategy
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Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy June 2019 1 Industrial Strategy Good Work Plan Contents Foreword 04 Executive summary 07 Introduction 18 Greater Manchester’s Industrial Strategy 20 The Independent Prosperity Review 24 Strengths and opportunities 31 The five foundations of productivity Ideas 59 People 62 Infrastructure 68 Business environment 76 Places 84 Implementation 92 2 3 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy Foreword “ We can see only a short distance ahead but we can see plenty that And it seeks to raise productivity And digital transformation has needs to be done”. - Alan Turing, Manchester, 1950. and pay in the foundational sectors the potential to create better of the economy - including in large quality, future-facing jobs in all Alan Turing’s words have as much Greater Manchester has a proud history sectors such as retail, hospitality sectors of the economy. relevance today as they did then. of innovation, from the world’s first and tourism, and social care. Written in Manchester when he passenger railway, to the world’s first Led by a partnership including the was pioneering work that led to the stored program electronic computer, Crucially, the strategy builds on Greater Greater Manchester Mayor, the Greater modern computing revolution, he to the Nobel Prize winning isolation Manchester’s best asset - its people - to Manchester Combined Authority, the inspired technologies across the of graphene in our own time. Greater continue to drive social progress. It sets Greater Manchester Local Enterprise world which are transforming the way Manchester’s economic leadership out a plan for communities across the Partnership, and national government, we live our lives as workers, citizens has gone hand in hand with social cities and towns of Greater Manchester the Greater Manchester Local and consumers. We do not know all progress: the Chartists, the Trade to thrive and prosper, with good jobs Industrial Strategy builds on over 30 the ways in which our economy and Union movement, the co-operative being created across the city-region years of public and private sector society will be impacted by these global movement, and women’s suffrage were backed up by the infrastructure, collaboration in the city-region. The forces, but we have a clear picture all born in the city-region. England’s skills and networks needed to raise strategy’s development was a genuinely of what needs to be done to ensure first civic university, the University of productivity and earnings. It aims to collaborative effort with stakeholders, that the UK and Greater Manchester Manchester, was established in the ensure that everyone is supported drawing on expertise and advice are best placed to take advantage city-region and the area is now home to reach their full potential, that from a wide range of organisations of the opportunities they create. to four universities that play a leading people have hope and optimism including Greater Manchester’s for the future, and that the modern businesses and social enterprises, local Our modern Industrial Strategy sets role in social and economic progress. economy leaves nobody behind. authorities, universities and colleges, out how the UK will respond to these This pioneering and progressive spirit trade unions and community and economic and technological changes, is demonstrated today in the Greater This focus on frontier and foundational voluntary organisations, as well as as well as other global forces such Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. sectors – and the connections national organisations, and government as an ageing society and the need The strategy capitalises on Greater between them – will support the departments and agencies. It is based to transition to clean growth, while Manchester’s biggest opportunities, creation of a highly productive, on a robust evidence base produced raising productivity and earnings. where it can be a 21st century global more inclusive and prosperous city- by leading experts through the Greater Local Industrial Strategies are an pioneer at the centre of the Fourth region for all residents. It also means Manchester Independent Prosperity essential part of our plan, allowing Industrial Revolution – including in that the strategy will deliver more Review, which built on the 2016 Science communities to take control of their health innovation, advanced materials, than the sum of its parts. Health and Innovation Audit. It demonstrates own economic futures and ensuring and digital and creative industries. It innovation will create new products the successes of devolution to the city- that the UK takes advantage of local aims to capitalise on the local ambition and services Greater Manchester region over the past decade, and charts opportunities and the drive and to be carbon neutral by 2038, to can export around the world, while a course for how this partnership will ambition of people across the country. drive improvements to environmental simultaneously improving the health continue to develop into the future. quality while also stimulating of the city-region’s population. Carbon innovation and new industries. neutrality by 2038 will improve the environment across the city-region, boosting quality of life for residents. 4 5 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy Executive Summary Greater Manchester does things differently. Plenty needs to be Greater Manchester’s ambitious Local Industrial Strategy is done and we are committed to work together to do it. designed to deliver an economy fit for the future, with prosperous communities across the city-region and radically increased productivity and earning power. This Local Industrial Strategy It has been developed from the ground represents a strong partnership up with local and national stakeholders, between local leaders and government, including business and social setting out an ambitious plan to achieve enterprises, trade unions, universities the aspirations of the national Industrial and colleges, and community Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Mike Blackburn OBE Strategy and to continue to contribute and voluntary organisations. Secretary of State for Business, Chair of Greater Manchester to Greater Manchester’s prosperity. Energy and Industrial Strategy Local Enterprise Partnership The strategy is based on the robust evidence provided by the 2019 Independent Prosperity Review, and the 2016 Science and Innovation Audit. Greater Manchester fit for the 21st century Rt Hon Andy Burnham Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell Greater Manchester’s success is central to the government’s vision Mayor of Greater Manchester FRS, FMedSci, President of a prosperous Northern Powerhouse. and Chair, Greater Manchester and Vice-Chancellor of the The city-region’s economy is robust, Greater Manchester is building on Combined Authority University of Manchester diverse and growing. With over a decade of strong investment in 124,000 businesses, it is already a businesses, infrastructure, and in new great place to live and work for many. forms of government. Since 2009, a Employment growth has been strong Combined Authority has been formed, a for a decade and there are reasons Mayor elected, and six devolution deals for optimism for the future: a growing signed, giving the city-region greater skills base, significant rises in business influence over billions of pounds of Sir Richard Leese Juergen Maier CBE start-ups, and major infrastructure spending. Working with government, Leader of Manchester City Council Chief Executive of Siemens plc investments are planned. Innovative Greater Manchester has developed the and Deputy Mayor, Greater forms of cooperation between Greater UK’s largest and most successful light- Manchester Combined Authority Manchester’s private and public sector rail system, invested in institutions that mean it continues to be an example of provide an unrivalled critical mass of effective leadership for the Northern graphene and 2D materials research Powerhouse, the UK, and the world. and commercialisation expertise, and 6 7 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy successfully supported the long-term These include population health, Key to the success of the Local investment into infrastructure to sit unemployed back into work through education and skills, infrastructure, Industrial Strategy will be strengthening alongside devolved funding streams. the nationally acclaimed Working innovation and leadership and the city-region’s foundations of `` Business environment: strengthening Well programme. This Local Industrial management. The Greater Manchester productivity and ensuring that growth Greater Manchester programmes Strategy maintains the momentum. Local Industrial Strategy will tackle benefits all people and places: that support businesses to improve The Independent Prosperity these barriers, while also responding `` Ideas: Greater Manchester partners productivity. The leadership and Review identified that there are to global changes affecting us all will continue to work with UK Research management programmes provided barriers to be overcome to improve including climate change, technological and Innovation (UKRI) to maximise by Greater Manchester partners will economic performance. change and the Fourth Industrial investments in innovation assets in the be complemented by a new Greater Revolution, and an ageing society. conurbation, increasing the take-up Manchester Good Employment and impact of funding to drive applied Charter and plan for the ‘foundational