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Extending our international reach

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.

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Understanding Inward Investment Support in the Midlands

A guide to navigating the dynamic investment landscape of the Midlands

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.

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Midlands Global & Investment Scorecard July 2024

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.

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Invest in a partnership with Midlands universities

World-renowned for their strengths in science, research and innovation, universities in the Midlands are redefining how academia works in partnership with industry.

5 prospectus’ have been produced which showcase the opportunities for investment in key sectors: Agritech, Health & Life Sciences, Transport Technology, Creative & Digital and Zero Carbon Energy.

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The Midlands Engine Partnership at UKREiiF 2024, 21st – 23rd May

UKREiiF provided a major opportunity to drive investment into the Midlands.

Partners came together in the Midlands Engine Partnership Pavilion to showcase the investment opportunities from across the region.

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Exploring the investment potential of clusters in the Midlands

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:

  • Super – a sector where the Midlands is world-leading
  • Established – long-established sectors generating significant economic activity in multiple locations
  • New – emerging knowledge, technology and innovation-intensive sectors
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Midlands Engine CEO Roger Mendonca at UKREiiF 2023
How our partnership works to drive investment into the Midlands

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.

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Nov 8 2024

UK’s first University R&D Overseas Investment Mission sees Midlands showcased on global stage

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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