National Enterprise Board

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The National Enterprise Board (NEB) was a government body set up in the United Kingdom in 1975 to implement the Wilson Labour government's objective of extending public ownership of industry. The plans were outlined in the 1974 White Paper The Regeneration of British Industry and the Industry Act 1975 enacted these measures, establishing the NEB.

One of the first activities of the NEB was the Ryder Report, named for the NEB's new chairman, on the future of the British Leyland Motor Corporation.

The NEB had a software initiative called INSAC. The memory and microprocessor company Inmos was set up by the NEB in 1978.

In 1981, the NEB was combined with the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) to form the British Technology Group (BTG). The NRDC had been founded in 1948 by Atlee's Labour government to commercialise British publicly funded research.

In 1991 BTG was transferred to the private sector and, as BTG plc, has become a leading technology transfer company that commercialises intellectual property acquired from research organisations and companies around the world.