Industry giants back engineering growth campaign

The initiative, launched by the Royal Academy of Engineering in February this year, aims to support growth in the sector and encourage more young people to enter into it. One of the flagship initiatives of the campaign is the Royal Academy of Engineering's Enterprise Hub, established to bring about a step change in the success of high potential UK based technology businesses and their contribution to economic growth. The Enterprise Hub provides mentoring and support for start ups and growing SMEs, and so far 70 of the UK's top technology entrepreneurs and business professionals have pledged their time as mentors. Other initiatives planned for Engineering for Growth include debates and roundtables addressing key issues, research into the challenges highlighted, and a programme of MP visits to some of the UK's brightest and most promising engineering companies. Business Secretary Vince Cable, pictured, said: "Engineers are the perfect example of the sort of high skilled, long term jobs we want to encourage, jobs that will be critical to growing the British economy over the next decade. "My ambition is that this decade becomes the decade of the engineer as we encourage more young people - and girls in particular - to study physics, maths and science at school as the gateway subjects to a career in engineering. The Engineering for Growth campaign will help us make this a reality."