About the session
Communications media and devices are proliferating at an accelerating rate. Globalisation means that innovations spread within months round the world and markets appear in a few years that previously took decades to emerge. Much large scale manufacturing has moved offshore, attracted by lower costs and economies of scale. Will other activities follow suit? Does the rise of China and India mean that innovation in communications will happen increasingly outside the UK? What are the important developments that are affecting the development of the communications industry and what should the strategic response be? This presentation examines trends in technology and markets, and sets out some suggestions for what policies researchers, businesses and government should pursue.
