
Internationalisation
Dec 16 2024
The Midlands is home to some of the world’s most successful companies, whose innovation, expertise and ingenuity have driven UK trade and exports for over a century. The Midlands Engine helps amplify the voice and reputation of our region’s universities, businesses and opportunities across the world – to high-growth markets, such as the USA, South East Asia, the Gulf and Africa.
We work in collaboration with partners from right across our region and national government. Together, we work to support inward investment, to encourage more firms to export to more places around the world and to help keep jobs and opportunities within both our region and the UK.
With an economy the size of Denmark’s and a population the same as Portugal, the Midlands region of England is a major market in which to start or grow a business. For the prospective investor or intermediary there are a number of support services and incentives available.
This page provides you with an overview of the number of support services and incentives available for prospective investors and businesses to help you navigate opportunities in our exciting region.
World-renowned for their strengths in science, research and innovation, universities in the Midlands are redefining how academia works in partnership with industry.
Five prospectuses have been produced which showcase the opportunities for investment in key sectors: Agri-tech, Health & Life Sciences, Transport Technology, Creative & Digital and Zero Carbon Energy.
The Partnership will host a pavilion for the second year in a row – providing our partners with the platform to showcase their investment opportunities from across the region.
The Midlands Engine Partnership has published 23 cluster snapshots to better understand their scale and economic contribution, as well as showcase the investment opportunities within each sector.
These clusters have been categorised as:
Build a reliable evidence base
Working across the Partnership and with the Midlands Engine Observatory, and as seen through our work in mapping the region’s cluster potential, we build a reliable evidence base to facilitate informed decision-making.
Unlock potential
We showcase the opportunities to drive investment and trade, focusing on areas where the Midlands is strongest and most innovative. View the ‘Invest in UK R&D’ prospectus here.
Provide a global platform for the region
Provide an even and balanced platform for partners to present priorities, and support this through the Midlands Trade and Investment Advisory Forum community of practice.
The third edition of the Global and Investment Scorecard, providing a high-level summary of how the Midlands is performing across five key themes: trade; business; investment; higher education, and the visitor economy.
Internationalisation
Dec 16 2024
Global
Nov 8 2024
The Invest in UK R&D – Midlands Campaign kicked off a series of outbound missions in October, which included the UK’s first ever University R&D Overseas Investment Mission, taking over 25 Vice-Chancellors, academic leaders and regional partners to the Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology – where the Midlands Campaign hosted the UK’s Global Pavilion Stand on behalf of the UK High Commission, Innovate UK and the Department for Business and Trade.
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Sep 12 2024