Finding a solution for our hearing problem

摘要

It seems like there will never be a time when a president of the Royal Academy of Engineering won't have to chide the government about its industrial policy. It's now Sir John Parker's turn to plough this particular furrow. In an interview with The Guardian, the chairman of the mining group Anglo American said that the government should be more protective of strategic sectors, citing the example of the attitudes of the French, German and Spanish governments towards their aerospace sectors, and should take a 20-25 year view of which sectors should be regarded as strategic. There should be cross-departmental policy making, he added, with research and development and skills training targeted towards these sectors.