Britain has not stopped being an industrial nation and manufacturing is still more important to the economy than financial services.
The Open University Business School's Dr Matt Hinton discusses the changing nature of British manufacture in a feature in Open Eye in the Independent newspaper, using examples like Cambridge-based company ARM which makes silicon chips for 90 percent of the world's mobile devices.
The arguments will be put forward in a new Open University/BBC 2 series called Made in Britain, due to be presented later this month by journalist Evan Davis.
Dr Hinton, who works on B203 Business functions in context and is academic advisor to Made in Britain, also argues that both our education and our banking systems should do more to support manufacturing. Read the full article in 7 June issue of Open Eye, the Open University feature page published in the Independent newspaper on the first Tuesday of each month.
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