Senior figures from British business recently met to discuss the impor-ce of standards to UK plc, to highlight the true benefits of technical standards as tools to increase the competitiveness of British enterprise. The seminar focused on launching the National Standardization Strategic Framework (NSSF) - a new blueprint designed to push standardization higher up the corporate agenda in the UK Keynote addresses were delivered by Digby Jones, CBI director general, Lord Sainsbury, Minister for Science and Innovation, and Sir David John, chairman of the UK's national standards body, BSI. The NSSF was designed in response to the recognition that the UK's competitiveness, productivity and ability to innovate were hampered by the lack of an infrastructure that makes the most of the benefits of standardization.
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