Local Industrial Strategy for Buckinghamshire

A new economic strategy for Buckinghamshire, designed to boost productivity and grow the area’s creative, space, advanced manufacturing and digital health capability on the world stage, was launched in 2019.

Click here to access the full strategy.

Developed in collaboration through the Buckinghamshire LEP business team and government, the Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy sets out how the area will deliver the national Industrial Strategy’s aim to raise productivity levels and to create high-quality, well paid jobs.

“Buckinghamshire is already the fourth most productive area in England and has the highest employment rate in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc area, and the strategy released today will go even further to help boost earning power and opportunities for people and businesses in Buckinghamshire and across the Arc.”                    

Business Secretary Greg Clark.                            

The Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy builds on its four big economic assets in the space, creative, advanced engineering and digital health sectors.

This includes:

  • a long-term investment plan for Westcott Space Clusterto develop new research and development facilities and a base manufacturing excellence in space propulsion and in-orbit maintenance, and to address skills shortages for technicians and propulsion test specialists
  • a new Screen Industries Global Growth Hub at Pinewood Studios to provide support to creative businesses
  • using Silverstone Park and technology cluster to stimulate high tech cross-overs, supporting emerging technologies through improving links between firms, improving links between businesses and universities, and improving networking across the Oxford-Cambridge Arc
  • digital health, med-tech and advanced artificial intelligence– building on assets including Stoke Mandeville Spinal Centre, Buckinghamshire Life Sciences Innovation Centre.

Developing a Local Industrial Strategy for Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire LEP has developed one of the country’s first Local Industrial Strategies. One of a family of strategies covering the Oxford – Cambridge Arc, the Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy (LIS) sets out a programme of activity to ensure that the county’s economic assets contribute more to the national and local economies.

Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy Evidence Base

What is a Local Industrial Strategy?

The Buckinghamshire Local Industrial Strategy focuses on how to strengthen and exploit the country’s most important economic assets, assets that are distinctive to Buckinghamshire and are significant nationally and internationally.

The Buckinghamshire LIS, in effect, forms a local chapter of the Government’s national industrial strategy, including its focus on four grand challenges facing the UK: artificial intelligence and the data economy; clean growth; the future of mobility; and the ageing society. The Local Industrial Strategy will also exploit Buckinghamshire’s location at the centre of the Oxford – Cambridge Arc.

For further information please contact ian@btvlep.co.uk

The National Strategy

The government’s ambitious, modern Industrial Strategy sets out a long term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people throughout the UK, setting out how we are building a Britain fit for the future.

The UK has significant economic strengths on which we can build, but we need to do more to increase our productivity and make the most of our untapped potential right across the country.

The government, backed by Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), will boost productivity and earning power across the country by focusing on the five foundations of productivity: Ideas, People, Infrastructure, Business Environment and Places.
To view summary of the key points of the Industrial Strategy click here

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