Industrial engineering. Management engineering
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Research problems linked to this topic
- More detailed and reliable data on all the relevant indicators included in our publication.
- We would further like to understand whether there is any evidence for co-location of R&D and manufacturing activity and whether this depends on the stage of the R&D conducted on site.
- Health resilience: More comprehensive data on capacity and capabilities for companies in the sector to better identify areas of concern with respect to supply vulnerabilities.
- How can the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) dataset inform our understanding about regional or global supply chains, including re-manufactured goods?
- How are decisions on investment and location of manufacturing facilities affected by the broader commercial environment and, in particular, price regulation and other cost control measures?
- Manufacturing Innovation: We would like to have a more comprehensive forward look for new drugs, devices, or other therapeutics to identify potential innovations faster.
- Detailed company data on tangible and intangible assets, as well as use of materials, to produce estimates of both labour productivity and total factor productivity.
- Supply chain resilience: more comprehensive evidence on the supply chain relationships between companies in the UK and those in other countries, as well as evidence on the potential impact of supply chain restrictions.
- How can we effectively evaluate countries’ relative technology readiness levels (TRL), by technical area, sector and overall strategy? To what extent does the commercial, regulatory and legal environment impact on TRLs? To what extent can market access restrictions to some sectors have wider impacts on trade within other sectors?
- We would like to understand the impact of operational costs (such as energy or materials along the supply chain) on the decision to locate and/or increase investment activity in the UK.
- How can we assess how much value is created in each stage of a global supply chain and how do “smile curves” vary across products and sectors? For example, how can we estimate the value of intellectual property within global supply chains?
- Evidence on the impact of the planning system on the cost of establishing manufacturing and R&D activity.