[divider]This meeting was held on Friday 10 July 2015 at the University of Bristol.
The event brought together different perspectives on the networks that support manufacturing activity in the Bristol City Region. A range of speakers gave brief talks to explore:
– how direct (e.g. parts, assemblies, raw materials) and indirect (e.g. knowledge/advisory, design, education, finance, logistics) supply networks interact.
– the impact of the socio-economic (technology clusters, taxation/incentives, employment and skills, infrastructure, etc.) and historical context.
From this workshop, the intent is to build up several layers in a preliminary manufacturing map of the city region – identifying the areas for researchers to explore in more detail – and then begin to address the extent to which these networks drive/inhibit (i) resilience and (ii) sustainability.