The UK government’s new Industrial Strategy could have a significant impact on the country’s regions and localities. However, this has received little attention to date. The analysis presented here examines the existing location of the sectors targeted by the first phase of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and the location of the R&D laboratories likely to be first in line for funding. In focusing on an extremely narrow range of sectors, the Fund is likely to have limited impact on the UK’s persistent regional inequalities. The activities eligible for support account for relatively little of manufacturing or the rest of the economy and the basis of this targeting and its potential distributional consequences are spatially blind. As such, it runs the risk of widening regional divides in prosperity.

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产业战略和英国地区：部门狭窄和空间盲

英国政府的新产业战略可能对该国的地区和地方产生重大影响。然而，到目前为止，这很少受到关注。此处提供的分析检查了工业战略挑战基金第一阶段所针对的部门的现有位置以及可能首先获得资金的研发实验室的位置。在关注范围极窄的部门时，该基金可能对英国持续存在的地区不平等影响有限。有资格获得支持的活动在制造业或其他经济体中所占的比例相对较小，而且这一目标的基础及其潜在的分配后果在空间上是盲目的。因此，它冒着扩大区域繁荣差距的风险。