Collection

Advanced Manufacturing: research and evaluation

This collection provides analysis to inform the UK Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan and the Industrial Strategy.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 26 February 2026

This collection brings together research and evaluation focused on key advanced manufacturing industries, including aerospace, automotive and batteries. It incorporates evaluations of major advanced manufacturing grant funding programmes, supporting the monitoring of progress against the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan objectives, as well as research that strengthens the wider Advanced Manufacturing evidence base.

Further details on planned, ongoing and completed Advanced Manufacturing evaluations are available on the GOV.UK Evaluation Registry.

Collection

• Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF): evaluation framework
  • 26 February 2026
  • Independent report
• Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF): process evaluation
  • 26 February 2026
  • Independent report
• Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF): baseline exercise
  • 26 February 2026
  • Research and analysis
• Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC): impact evaluation
  • 26 February 2026
  • Research and analysis
• Aerospace Technology Institute programme: impact evaluation
  • 26 February 2026
  • Research and analysis
• The changing value and structure of the UK manufacturing sector
  • 26 February 2026
  • Research and analysis
• UK battery sector: mapping research
  • 26 February 2026
  • Research and analysis

Published 26 February 2026