The Bank of Making Things
Posted by Duncan Greenwood on 05 Nov 2009 | Tagged as: Manufacturing
Smart idea emerging from a conference organised by the Engineering Employers Federation – “The Bank of Making Things.”
Conference conclusion was that the UK banking system needs urgent overhaul (where have we heard that before?) if it is to support the growth of high value, innovative businesses. Arguing there was no time like the present, the EEF said that now there was an ideal opportunity for change with strong support for an industrial bank tasked with investing in the future.
The EEF’s Steve Radley is quoted as saying: “There is a growing consensus that the current system is unfit for purpose so far as high value manufacturing businesses are concerned.”
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