Business governance
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- Analyse and explain the common features of organisations that are making the largest economic contribution within an AHT subsector (e.g. type, size, location of businesses). What lessons can be learnt to drive future growth policy?
- What is the most effective method for incentivising responsible technology design, in terms of cyber security? What are the barriers or blockers for using secure by design principles for cyber security of emerging connected technologies? Where have we seen successes in adopting secure by design principles for connected technologies? Is there a gold-standard or case study where security of a product has been considered during early inception? Has led to greater security of the product and fewer breaches?
- Understanding what works to improve the quality and resilience of the sport and physical activity system through better business models and regulation.
- Reduced bureaucracy of research and innovation funding: What approaches work to reduce ‘unnecessary’ bureaucracy in government funded RDI programmes?
- How should global digital technical standards be understood and used, and how can we understand their costs and benefits? How do we work with global companies on this from a UK perspective?
- To what extent can the private sector deliver investment promotion together with DIT?
- To what extent are intellectual property rights enforced where there is infringement, and how practices differ across sector and business size?
- To what extent does innovation and competition between companies promote network technology evolution and interoperability (e.g. between systems, equipment, etc)? For further relevant questions on market competition and cooperation see BDUK section 2.
- How could incentives for cyber security adoption and change, to reducible risk, be posed to organisations? Is there a need for different types of incentivisation for different sectors or differing sizes of organisations?
- What are the best practices for the design and evaluation of export finance products and services?
- How could interventions be improved to reduce cyber risks posed by organisations and the economy? Do some interventions work better for some sectors, sizes or maturities of a company? How can we best visualise this and classify? Does organisational structure play a role in how effective certain interventions are? Is there a need for different types of intervention for different sectors and structures?
- What barriers to obtaining finance do creative businesses experience? What are they doing to overcome known barriers?
- What incentivises and supports sharing of knowledge to promote sector-wide best practice in a competitive market place?
- How is digital culture affecting how people interact with both physical and digital forms of culture? Are they substitutes or complements e.g. can digital engagement increase physical engagement? What does this mean for future policy interventions and business models?
- What are the big strategic questions in relation to ‘Pro-Innovation Regulation’ that the government should be focused on? Do regulatory mandates and remits need to change and if so how, as markets and the economy continue to shift? Is sector-focused regulation struggling to cope with changing markets, and how should it interact with horizontal regulation? Should innovation be made an explicit part of regulators’ remit, without diluting their responsibility for consumer safety? How far should regulation be used to create new markets or shape existing ones?
- How can networks and communities of practice be used to support knowledge sharing and foster collaboration amongst regulators? How can strategic coordination and partnership help unlock the value of standards for innovation? How can regulators work with Freeports to overcome the regulatory challenges of developing, testing and applying new ideas and technologies?
- Which CI sectors have a comparative advantage/face particular challenges in regards to trade in services and trade in goods, and how does this vary by company size?
- What impact are the governments ‘Pro-Innovation regulation’ policies having (including the Regulatory Horizons Council and Regulators Pioneer Fund) and how can we better evaluate such policies in the future? Can we create an evaluation system specifically designed to help businesses and regulators monitor and evaluate the impacts of different regulatory approaches to create a coherent consistent library from which lessons can be learnt?
- What role do technical standards play in supporting or hindering innovation? How can regulation and standards play complimentary roles in creating an agile governance framework? Are there successful case studies we can draw lessons from?
- What is the impact on the new location and CIs growth from moving the location of a large media or CI business? For example, BBC Media City in Salford or the Cardiff BBC centre. What other spillover effects result? How do large businesses support local creative industries supply chains and skills development?
- How can innovative forms of commissioning and effective cross-sector collaboration improve outcomes at local levels?
- To what extent do business strategies include exporting as a means of achieving business growth? How does this vary by business characteristics?
- What methods are best to isolate the impact of one service provided by the DIT service from others we provide?
- Are international regulatory frameworks and technical standards currently helping or hindering UK innovators in achieving scale? How do key stakeholders rate our regulatory system compared to international competitors? How active / influential has the UK been in shaping international efforts to establish regulations and standards? Have UK industry and government built new capabilities / coalitions, effective in shaping global technical standards?
- To what extent would future market consolidation affect the different actors within the market and the performance of the market as a whole?
- Identify factors which inhibit UK telecoms research and development in terms of: (i) skills and talents (education, jobs), (ii) R&D (lack of IP knowledge, facilities), (iii) investment (private sector / venture capital), (iv) coordination, (v) market dynamics (barriers to entry, commercialisation, international policies and subsidies).
- What are the barriers and opportunities for external investment in UK cyber sector companies? To what extent are these specific to cyber versus reflecting the UK investment landscape overall? What can be done to encourage investors to look at cyber companies based outside London and the South East?