United Kingdom: UK Government released UK's Modern Industrial Strategy including Digital and Technologies Sector Plan

On 23 June 2025, the UK Government released the Modern Industrial Strategy: Digital and Technologies Sector Plan as part of its broader industrial strategy framework. The plan outlines a roadmap to enhance the United Kingdom’s global standing in digital and technology sectors by 2035, with the stated objective of becoming one of the top three global destinations for creating, investing in, and scaling high-growth technology businesses. It identifies 6 priority frontier technologies, including advanced connectivity, artificial intelligence, cyber security, engineering biology, quantum technologies, and semiconductors. Furthermore, the plan sets out coordinated actions across 6 policy pillars: increasing public and private research and development (R&D) investment, improving access to finance, developing a skilled workforce, strengthening digital and physical infrastructure, enabling pro-innovation regulation, and deepening international partnerships, including a commitment to raise annual public R&D investment to GBP 22.6 billion by 2029/30 and a target for the private sector to invest GBP 3 in R&D for every GBP 1 of targeted public funding by 2035. The plan also outlines regulatory and investment initiatives, such as reforms to mobilise institutional capital, the TechFirst programme for digital skills, and the creation of support structures including the Regulatory Innovation Office and the Connections Accelerator Service.