Professor Paolo Taticchi, Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Sustainable Business, has co-authored a new white paper examining how the United Kingdom can strengthen its long-term resilience and competitiveness through greater collaboration between the public and private sectors.
Titled Future Resilience and Competitiveness: A Public–Private Model for the UK in a New World Order, the publication explores how coordinated action across three sectors of government, business and academia, can enhance the country’s ability to anticipate and manage systemic risks while still supporting sustainable economic growth.
Developed in collaboration with the Future Resilience Forum and Pool Re, the paper responds to growing recognition that competitiveness and resilience are increasingly interconnected. It highlights how the UK’s exposure to global volatility, spanning from supply chains, to energy systems and digital infrastructure, requires new frameworks for cooperation.
The paper outlines a proposed Public–Private Resilience and Competitiveness Model, designed to enable structured collaboration on issues such as climate resilience, cybersecurity, and economic preparedness. The framework would provide a platform for data sharing, joint risk analysis and cross-sector coordination, helping the UK to better identify vulnerabilities and develop proactive responses to emerging challenges.
Drawing on lessons from international examples, the authors identify the importance of mutual value creation in sustaining long-term collaboration, pointing to how other countries have established formal mechanisms linking private expertise to national risk planning, while also highlighting opportunities for the UK to build on existing strengths in research, innovation and financial services.
Through a proposed pilot phase, they suggest bringing together organisations from key sectors across finance, energy, health and technology to test new approaches to data exchange and collective foresight. Insights from this process could inform the development of a permanent council dedicated to enhancing UK resilience and competitiveness.
The paper argues that businesses and institutions that can adapt quickly to shocks, maintain continuity and manage transition risks are better positioned to thrive in an increasingly uncertain global environment.
Co-authored with Catrina Daly, Manager of the UCL Centre for Sustainable Business, the white paper offers a framework for how the UK can turn complex challenges into drivers of sustainable growth and innovation and by positioning resilience at the heart of competitiveness, it highlights the role of collaboration and foresight in shaping a more secure and future-ready economy.
Read the full white paper by Professor Paolo Taticchi and Catrina Daly
