British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.
In the U.S. and Europe, there has been a lot of creative hobby innovation, and that's great.
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.
Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.
Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.