Electronics get serious

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The Electronics Leadership Council is pulling together all sections of the industry to promote the technology, says Harry Tee.

I was delighted to be invited by the former industry minister, Alun Michael, to be the first chairman of the

(ELC). I believe this work is important because electronics can make an increasingly significant contribution to the prosperity of this country.

It is a pervasive technology that underpins virtually every other sector of economic activity.

Over the past year I have been assembling and getting to know the group of senior industrialists and stakeholders that form the council. Together we have been pushing forward on several fronts to act on the key recommendations of the Electronics Innovation and Growth Team's (EIGT) report and in promoting and raising the profile of our sector.

We agreed to set up individual work streams, each under the chairmanship of a council member, to address specific challenges.

The work streams are technology, skills, supply chain and public procurement and a particular emphasis was placed on working with the regional development agencies and similar bodies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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