Expansion in areas in which the UK is strong such as Finance, Software & AI, Science-led business such as biotech and new materials and battery chemistry (vaccines), Engineering, renewables / hydrogen economy. UK is a world leader in offshore renewables thanks to our long coastline, windy weather, and North Sea expertise thanks to Oil.
And areas which are synergies between those, such as fintech. Many fintech startups since the 2008 crash.
The UK is a world leader in AI. One such company which appeared after the 2008 recession and is well known is DeepMind. Demis Hassabis who founded DeepMind in 2010, said in interview with Hannah Fry in 2019 that a milestone in the development of AI will be when an AI makes a scientific discovery worthy of a Nobel prize.
Interestingly, this year DeepMind's AlphaFold project appears to have solved the problem of predicting the 3D structure of a protein from it's amino acid sequence.
External Link/Members OnlyIn 1962 the Nobel prize for Chemistry was awarded for elucidating the 3D structure of just one protein - Haemaglobin.