Greater Local Industrial Strategy

June 2019

1 Industrial Strategy Good Work Plan

2 Contents

Foreword 04

Executive summary 07

Introduction 18

Greater Manchester’s Industrial Strategy 20

The Independent Prosperity Review 24

Strengths and opportunities 31

The five foundations of productivity

Ideas 59

People 62

Infrastructure 68

Business environment 76

Places 84

Implementation 92

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Foreword

“We can see only a short distance ahead but we can see plenty that needs to be done”. - Alan Turing, Manchester, 1950. Alan Turing’s words have as much Greater Manchester has a proud history relevance today as they did then. of innovation, from the world’s first Written in Manchester when he passenger railway, to the world’s first was pioneering work that led to the stored program electronic computer, modern computing revolution, he to the Nobel Prize winning isolation inspired technologies across the of graphene in our own time. Greater world which are transforming the way Manchester’s economic leadership we live our lives as workers, citizens has gone hand in hand with social and consumers. We do not know all progress: the Chartists, the Trade the ways in which our economy and Union movement, the co-operative society will be impacted by these global movement, and women’s suffrage were forces, but we have a clear picture all born in the city-region. ’s of what needs to be done to ensure first civic university, the University of that the UK and Greater Manchester Manchester, was established in the are best placed to take advantage city-region and the area is now of the opportunities they create. to four universities that play a leading Our modern Industrial Strategy sets role in social and economic progress. out how the UK will respond to these This pioneering and progressive spirit economic and technological changes, is demonstrated today in the Greater as well as other global forces such Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. as an ageing society and the need The strategy capitalises on Greater to transition to clean growth, while Manchester’s biggest opportunities, raising productivity and earnings. where it can be a 21st century global Local Industrial Strategies are an pioneer at the centre of the Fourth essential part of our plan, allowing – including in communities to take control of their health innovation, advanced materials, own economic futures and ensuring and digital and creative industries. It that the UK takes advantage of local aims to capitalise on the local ambition opportunities and the drive and to be carbon neutral by 2038, to ambition of people across the country. drive improvements to environmental quality while also stimulating innovation and new industries.

4 And it seeks to raise productivity And digital transformation has and pay in the foundational sectors the potential to create better of the economy - including in large quality, future-facing jobs in all sectors such as retail, hospitality sectors of the economy. and tourism, and social care. Led by a partnership including the Crucially, the strategy builds on Greater Greater Manchester Mayor, the Greater Manchester’s best asset - its people - to Manchester , the continue to drive social progress. It sets Greater Manchester Local Enterprise out a plan for communities across the Partnership, and national government, cities and towns of Greater Manchester the Greater Manchester Local to thrive and prosper, with good jobs Industrial Strategy builds on over 30 being created across the city-region years of public and private sector backed up by the infrastructure, collaboration in the city-region. The skills and networks needed to raise strategy’s development was a genuinely productivity and earnings. It aims to collaborative effort with stakeholders, ensure that everyone is supported drawing on expertise and advice to reach their full potential, that from a wide range of organisations people have hope and optimism including Greater Manchester’s for the future, and that the modern businesses and social enterprises, local economy leaves nobody behind. authorities, universities and colleges, This focus on frontier and foundational trade unions and community and sectors – and the connections voluntary organisations, as well as between them – will support the national organisations, and government creation of a highly productive, departments and agencies. It is based more inclusive and prosperous city- on a robust evidence base produced region for all residents. It also means by leading experts through the Greater that the strategy will deliver more Manchester Independent Prosperity than the sum of its parts. Health Review, which built on the 2016 Science innovation will create new products and Innovation Audit. It demonstrates and services Greater Manchester the successes of devolution to the city- can export around the world, while region over the past decade, and charts simultaneously improving the health a course for how this partnership will of the city-region’s population. Carbon continue to develop into the future. neutrality by 2038 will improve the environment across the city-region, boosting quality of life for residents.

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Greater Manchester does things differently. Plenty needs to be done and we are committed to work together to do it.

Rt Hon Greg Clark MP Mike Blackburn OBE Secretary of State for Business, Chair of Greater Manchester Energy and Industrial Strategy Local Enterprise Partnership

Rt Hon Professor Dame Mayor of Greater Manchester FRS, FMedSci, President and Chair, Greater Manchester and Vice-Chancellor of the Combined Authority

Sir Juergen Maier CBE Leader of Chief Executive of Siemens plc and Deputy Mayor, Greater Manchester Combined Authority

6 Executive Summary

Greater Manchester’s ambitious Local Industrial Strategy is designed to deliver an economy fit for the future, with prosperous communities across the city-region and radically increased productivity and earning power. This Local Industrial Strategy It has been developed from the ground represents a strong partnership up with local and national stakeholders, between local leaders and government, including business and social setting out an ambitious plan to achieve enterprises, trade unions, universities the aspirations of the national Industrial and colleges, and community Strategy and to continue to contribute and voluntary organisations. to Greater Manchester’s prosperity. The strategy is based on the robust evidence provided by the 2019 Independent Prosperity Review, and the 2016 Science and Innovation Audit.

Greater Manchester fit for the 21st century

Greater Manchester’s success is central to the government’s vision of a prosperous Northern Powerhouse. The city-region’s economy is robust, Greater Manchester is building on diverse and growing. With over a decade of strong investment in 124,000 businesses, it is already a businesses, infrastructure, and in new great place to live and work for many. forms of government. Since 2009, a Employment growth has been strong Combined Authority has been formed, a for a decade and there are reasons Mayor elected, and six devolution deals for optimism for the future: a growing signed, giving the city-region greater skills base, significant rises in business influence over billions of pounds of start-ups, and major infrastructure spending. Working with government, investments are planned. Innovative Greater Manchester has developed the forms of cooperation between Greater UK’s largest and most successful light- Manchester’s private and public sector rail system, invested in institutions that mean it continues to be an example of provide an unrivalled critical mass of effective leadership for the Northern graphene and 2D materials research Powerhouse, the UK, and the world. and commercialisation expertise, and

7 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy successfully supported the long-term These include population health, unemployed back into work through education and skills, infrastructure, the nationally acclaimed Working innovation and leadership and Well programme. This Local Industrial management. The Greater Manchester Strategy maintains the momentum. Local Industrial Strategy will tackle Prosperity these barriers, while also responding Review identified that there are to global changes affecting us all barriers to be overcome to improve including climate change, technological economic performance. change and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and an ageing society.

Working to agree this Local Industrial Strategy

This Local Industrial Strategy sets out how Greater Manchester will forge its future. As well as setting out a number innovative firms to experiment of specific actions, it also sets out with, develop and adopt advanced Greater Manchester’s long-term materials in manufacturing; aspirations and the specific outcomes ``build on Greater Manchester’s position local partners are aiming to achieve. as a leading European digital city- These will help guide future action and region; enable the digitalisation of all evaluate progress. These locally led and sectors; and capitalise on the links ambitious outcomes are the product between digital and creative industries of extensive consultation with local that feed internationally significant leaders, business and civil society. They clusters in broadcasting, content are also underpinned by the work of creation and media, and maximise the Independent Prosperity Review. growing assets in cyber security; Where appropriate, this Local Industrial ``achieve carbon neutral living in Strategy will inform how local leaders Greater Manchester by 2038, by will capitalise on the city-region’s launching the UK’s first unique assets and opportunities city-region Clean Growth mission. over the long-term by aiming to: In addition to the specific shared ``set Greater Manchester up to be commitments agreed with government, a global leader on health and care this Local Industrial Strategy also innovation - creating new industries details how Greater Manchester and jobs, improving population health will work with a variety of local, and extending healthy life expectancy; national and international actors to ``position Greater Manchester as deliver the strategy’s ambitions. a world-leading city-region for

8 Key to the success of the Local investment into infrastructure to sit Industrial Strategy will be strengthening alongside devolved funding streams. the city-region’s foundations of ``Business environment: strengthening productivity and ensuring that growth Greater Manchester programmes benefits all people and places: that support businesses to improve ``Ideas: Greater Manchester partners productivity. The leadership and will continue to work with UK Research management programmes provided and Innovation (UKRI) to maximise by Greater Manchester partners will investments in innovation assets in the be complemented by a new Greater , increasing the take-up Manchester Good Employment and impact of funding to drive applied Charter and plan for the ‘foundational R&D to meet the strategic needs of economy’, to improve productivity, the Greater Manchester economy. wages and job quality in all sectors. ``People: working in partnership to ``P l a c e s :a thriving and productive explore areas to connect national economy in all parts of Greater and local policies for the post-16 skills Manchester will be supported by and work system in the city-region. addressing barriers to participating ``Infrastructure: government will join in employment and accessing the Greater Manchester Strategic opportunities across the city-region, Infrastructure Board. Greater and by Greater Manchester continuing Manchester will explore options to redesign public services around for sustainable, long-term local its model of unified public services.

Seizing opportunities for the future

Health Innovation Working with government, health and The interactions between poor physical social care devolution has given the and mental health and economic growth city-region greater control over £6bn stand out in Greater Manchester and, of health and care budgets. This gives like all UK cities and regions, Greater an ability for Greater Manchester to Manchester’s population base is drive innovation in the health and care ageing. By 2036, Greater Manchester system to improve population health, will see a 75 per cent increase in the while also creating new industries and proportion of the population who new jobs. This makes improving the are 75 and over compared to 2011. health of the local population Greater Manchester’s biggest opportunity, The city-region has recognised research as well as its biggest challenge. capabilities in health innovation and one of the largest life sciences clusters outside .

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Overview of the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy

Global Change

Technological and Economic Change Demographic and Climate Change

Strategic Drivers Greater Manchester Strategy National Industrial Strategy ‘Our People, Our Place’

Place: prosperous cities, towns and communities Building on our strengths and opportunities. Supporting the foundations of productivity.

Advanced Ideas: innovation, partnerships and Health materials and investment to drive prosperity and innovation: manufacturing: transformation. Global leadership A world-leading on health and for People: a skills and work system that care innovation, advanced ensures everyone reaches their extending materials, and a potential and employers have the healthy lives. Made Smarter skills they need. ecosystem. Infrastructure: integrated 21st century infrastructure for digitally- Digital, creative Clean growth: driven, clean and inclusive growth. and media: Carbon neutral A leading living in the city- Business environment: European digital region by 2038. strengthening leadership, increasing city-region. innovation adoption, raising export levels.

Drive progress towards delivering on the following long-term, locally driven aspirations:

Raised productivity and pay across sectors, driven by innovative well-managed businesses which are trading and investing globally. More high-quality manufacturing opportunities close to transport links and population centres. A fully integrated, digital health and care system, using preventative and assistive health tech; helping people stay productive for longer. that improves quality of life for residents, minimises the productivity impact on businesses and maximises commercial opportunities. A top five city-region for the digital economy in Europe, with full fibre broadband and 5G coverage, and with internationally-significant media and cyber-security clusters. A skills and work system that enables people to realise their potential, supports emerging industries and is responsive to employers. A coordinated infrastructure system, better and connections north-south and across the Northern Powerhouse.

10 The Greater Manchester Local successful commercialisation, adoption Industrial Strategy takes the city- and diffusion of these materials will region’s ambitions further. It sets support an industrial renaissance the ambition for Greater Manchester in the UK and help address all four to be a global leader on health and Grand Challenges. Greater Manchester care innovation, not only creating has a complementary advanced new industries and jobs, but also manufacturing base with strengths in improving population health and materials and textiles, chemicals, and extending healthy life expectancy. food and drink, amongst others, which Greater Manchester aims to lead provides the industrial capacity to Britain and the world in the roll-out of commercialise these new materials. The new health and care technologies, and city-region’s manufacturing industry, transforming health and care systems. which employs 110,000 people and The Industrial Strategy’s Ageing generates £8bn of economic output Society Grand Challenge recognises each year, is being transformed by the the opportunity posed by an ageing Fourth Industrial Revolution, which population. As the UK’s first World is driving productivity improvements Health Organisation Age Friendly through the adoption of digital city-region, Greater Manchester technologies, artificial intelligence has already taken charge of and efficiency improvements. capitalising on this opportunity. Through this Local Industrial Strategy, This Local Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester will combine these announces the establishment of an strengths to make the city-region Innovation Partnership on Healthy one of the world’s leading regions for Ageing, with a board comprising innovative firms to experiment with, of representatives from Greater develop and adopt advanced materials. Manchester, the private sector and To drive progress towards achieving government agencies and departments. this priority, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester will also work will develop world-class sites and to identify a home for a prospective premises across the city-region, International Centre for Healthy including the University of Manchester Ageing to drive real-world testing work to establish ‘Graphene City’ and commercialisation of health, in the centre, and the ambitions care and wellbeing innovations of Greater Manchester partners that support healthy ageing. for an ‘Advanced Materials City’ in north east Greater Manchester. Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Greater Manchester will establish a new Graphene, Advanced Materials Greater Manchester is the home of and Manufacturing Alliance to graphene and other revolutionary develop the city-region’s advanced 2D and advanced materials. The materials and manufacturing strategy,

11 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy with government on its board. Greater Manchester will also continue The city-region will build on the to support the growth of creative ongoing Made Smarter pilot to create and media clusters in the centre an ecosystem that supports next and throughout the city-region. generation manufacturing capabilities. Greater Manchester and government have already invested in the city- Digital, Creative and Media region’s digital infrastructure, Greater Manchester has the largest creative and media infrastructure and digital and creative sectors outside the committed to a new cyber security south east, with the potential to create Centre of Excellence in the city-region internationally significant clusters in that will create hundreds of high-skilled broadcasting, content creation and jobs. Greater Manchester’s £3m Digital media and cyber security, alongside Skills Pilot, agreed at the 2018 Budget, new sub-sectors like e-commerce where will see the city-region and government the city-region has the potential to lead work together to boost digital skills. industries of the future. The explosion of Local partners will also initiate a review the data and digital economy over the of local data, to identify and address past decade is enabling growth across barriers to making this openly available the economy, and has the potential to for re-use. Greater Manchester will transform public services to support lead a biennial international event to improved productivity. At the same showcase to the world the best of the time, cross-cutting digital strengths city-region’s digital and creative talent, will accelerate the use of productivity- with support from government officials. enhancing digital technologies and big data in all sectors to meet the Artificial Clean Growth Grand Challenge Intelligence and Data Grand Challenge. The transition to a carbon neutral Through this Local Industrial Strategy economy is a global challenge and central Greater Manchester aims to build on to the Clean Growth Grand Challenge, its position as a leading European which aims to ensure future growth does digital city region, to maximise growing not come at the expense of the planet. assets in cyber security and capitalise Greater Manchester’s ambition to achieve on the links between digital, creative carbon neutral living in the city-region by and other industries in the city-region 2038 provides a significant opportunity that feed innovation in broadcasting, to deliver substantial carbon reductions, content creation and media, as well as environmental and health benefits to in e-commerce, fintech and other new residents, whilst also creating new green technologies. Greater Manchester will industries and jobs capitalising on Greater take a Made Smarter approach to all Manchester’s research assets and large industries, supporting firms to adopt low carbon goods and services sector. new digital and creative techniques and This already includes 2,500 companies enabling the digitalisation of all sectors. and employs over 45,000 people.

12 While significant progress has been UK’s first city-region Clean Growth made in improving the city-region’s Mission to achieve carbon neutral environment, Greater Manchester living in Greater Manchester by will face challenges including rapidly 2038. Greater Manchester’s 5-Year increasing the energy efficiency of Environment Plan points to the buildings, decarbonising heating opportunities around innovations that: and cooling, significantly upscaling ``improve the environment; local renewable energy generation and decarbonising transport. To ``increase the energy efficiency drive progress, Greater Manchester of homes and buildings; has already developed a 5-year ``adopt new models of local Environment Plan that sets out renewable energy generation; and actions to reduce carbon across all sectors of society, and is working ``accelerate the implementation towards a coordinated Clean Air of energy and material efficiency Plan, to address poor air quality – measures by businesses. the largest environmental risk to Government welcomes Greater public health in the city-region. Manchester’s local mission, Through this Local Industrial Strategy which will support the delivery Greater Manchester is launching the of the government’s Clean Growth Grand Challenge.

Strengthening the foundations of productivity

Ideas Increasing innovation by firms Innovation – the development and across the public sector will and deployment of new ideas – is be crucial to meet the Industrial embedded throughout this Local Strategy target of 2.4 per cent of Industrial Strategy: in health and GDP being invested in R&D by 2027, care innovation and the development and 3 per cent in the longer term. and commercialisation of advanced Greater Manchester has already materials, in meeting the Clean Growth been working to reinforce the Grand Challenge and in digital and region’s innovation system, by creativity. However, there are gaps building collaboration through in the commercialisation ecosystem Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and Greater Manchester’s research and Impact Accelerator Accounts, and development spending is lower and coordinating activity through the than comparable city-regions. Greater Manchester Innovation Board.

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Greater Manchester and government Greater Manchester’s ambition is will continue to maximise the impact to deliver ambitious improvements of investments in innovation assets in skills and employment for the in the conurbation, increasing the 2.8 million people living in the city- take-up and impact of research region. Central to this is developing and innovation funding in Greater a responsive city-region skills system Manchester and embedding that enables all people to achieve connections between universities, their full potential and provides the businesses and public bodies. skills businesses need for the future. Greater Manchester will also work to To achieve this ambition, Greater incentivise private sector investment Manchester is rolling out a new in research and development. To delivery model for early years based address gaps in the innovation funding around integrated public services landscape, Greater Manchester will at neighbourhood level. Combined review the city-region’s venture capital Authority plans to pilot free bus travel funding landscape in partnership with for 16-18 year olds; the interactions the , assessing the with employers enabled by the Bridge case for an Early Stage Investment GM programme; the new UCAS-style seed funding programme drawing on careers platform; and Curriculum for local funding and targeted at private Life will help all of the city-region’s investments. To exploit opportunities young people become work and life from latent Intellectual Property (IP) ready. Government is already working held by large UK firms and research differently in the city-region through organisations, Greater Manchester will the Employment and Skills Advisory launch a pilot programme to develop a Panel and the devolution of the Adult cooperative Intellectual Property Bank Education Budget. Government and to make IP available to smaller firms. Greater Manchester are working together to deliver new initiatives People including the Opportunity Area, The city-region has made huge Digital Skills Pilot, Self-Employment strides over the past decade to Pilot, Future Workforce Fund, National improve the skills base and reduce the Retraining Scheme and to test new proportion of the population without approaches to employability support. any qualifications or out of work due To ensure the skills and employment to ill health. However, poor health system supports everyone in the and deficits in certain types of skills conurbation, government and Greater and talent is restricting economic Manchester have agreed to work growth, and the fragmentation in together to explore opportunities to the education and training system connect national and local post-16 skills presents barriers to further progress. and work policies in the city-region to deliver a more effective offer.

14 The Partnership will report within Government is already working in nine months; early areas for closer partnership with Greater Manchester cooperation could include: to improve transport system ``ensuring greater businesses performance through implementation engagement in the whole system of Greater Manchester’s devolution from careers to in-work progression; deals, greater local influence over rail services and stations, bus reform, ``supporting institutions with their trialling tram-trains and regulatory efforts to raise quality and therefore reform. In line with our national Future help more young people to benefit of Mobility Grand Challenge, Greater from good or outstanding learning; Manchester and government will also ``identifying what more can be develop a programme of transport done at a national and local level innovation to explore digital mobility to support those in work on solutions. This complements existing low pay to progress in work; partnership working to improve digital infrastructure in the city-region, to meet ``supporting employers to retain national targets of nationwide full fibre older workers and those with coverage by 2033 and roll-out of 5G health problems; and technologies for most people by 2027. ``supporting more high quality Greater Manchester’s £312.5m apprenticeship opportunities allocation from the Transforming Cities with SMEs, securing employer Fund has also supported developments commitments to provide to Metrolink and the ‘Bee Network’ (the high-quality T Level industry city-region’s transformative cycling placements, and boosting employer and walking infrastructure plan). investment in retraining. To continue addressing congestion Infrastructure and increase productivity in the short term, Greater Manchester will Greater Manchester has successfully implement the next stage of the city- delivered significant infrastructure region’s 2040 Transport Strategy and improvements and investment in continue to expand the Bee network the past ten years. The city-region to encourage increased walking and now aims to upgrade, integrate and cycling. The city-region will also work future-proof its infrastructure, to to deliver growth cases for High create a 21st century city-region with Speed 2 and (via Transport for the extreme digital connectivity, clean North) Northern Powerhouse Rail. and inclusive growth and – through work with others – improved access to national and global markets.

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This Local Industrial Strategy Through the Greater Manchester announces that government Local Industrial Strategy, activity will will join the Greater Manchester be coordinated to radically improve Strategic Infrastructure Board, the productivity of businesses across overseeing implementation of all sectors by strengthening their national and local plans and providing leadership and management capacity, operational expertise to improve increasing innovation adoption and the performance of the city-region’s raising levels of export and investment. infrastructure, including transport, This includes programmes being energy, housing and digital. delivered by the Business Growth Hub; To underpin the strategic and the local Good Employment Charter integrated approach to infrastructure designed by Greater Manchester the city-region has embedded, Greater partners; and a plan to increase the Manchester will review its institutions, productivity of big sectors in the structures and processes to ensure ‘foundational economy’. Together, they continued success in delivery relating will improve skills utilisation, wages to infrastructure, and also explore and job quality and management options for achieving sustainable, standards across the business base. long-term local investment to meet the A new Greater Manchester Social ambitions set out in the draft Greater Enterprise Strategy will set out how the Manchester Spatial Framework. sector can support the implementation of this industrial strategy and Business Environment promote good jobs in the sector. Greater Manchester’s economy is Greater Manchester and government diverse and there is a sophisticated mix have worked in partnership to of industries and supply chains in the encourage local investment, city-region creating huge opportunities demonstrated through the mature for business growth and diversification. and extensive business support Frontier firms in every sector are offer in the city-region and an exporting, innovating and growing increased local presence of the British investment in the city-region, but a ‘long Business Bank and the Department tail’ of low-productivity firms exists for International Trade, supporting in Greater Manchester as elsewhere, work including the £400m Northern and the city-region underperforms Powerhouse Investment Fund. on exports and innovation adoption.

16 The Growth Hub and Greater The city-region will also take an Manchester partners will better integrated place-based approach to coordinate existing business support bringing forward strategic regeneration programmes for increasing innovation proposals in town centres and strategic and productivity, to enable more sites, which integrate investment in local businesses to access them, land remediation, housing transport and provide more targeted support and other infrastructure to create including one-to-one advice, mentoring sustainable employment locations. and peer-to-peer programmes. Mayoral Development Corporations Greater Manchester will also launch will be used where appropriate a Global Prosperity Partnerships to drive strategic regeneration, Model to promote high value trade, and Greater Manchester will technology exchange, and scale up continue pubic service reform. high-growth companies to compete Government will work in partnership globally. These will be promoted by the with the city-region to deliver Department for International Trade. place-based policies that improve Places productivity and prosperity, including through national initiatives such as Greater Manchester has many the Future High Street Fund and the strengths: from the dynamic city Stronger Towns Fund to support and centre, to the creative cluster around fund local areas’ plans to make high the Quays and the concentration of streets and town centres fit for the research excellence on the Oxford future. Government will continue Road Corridor, to the industrial hubs working with Greater Manchester in , , partners to deliver the Transforming and , and vibrant town Cities Fund in ways that support centres across the city-region. the Local Industrial Strategy, and The Local Industrial Strategy recognises maximise the long term impact of the the city-region’s local variation, and new UK Shared Prosperity Fund. aims to bring prosperity to all of

Greater Manchester’s communities, in line with the recommendations of the Independent Prosperity Review. Each of Greater Manchester’s local authorities will develop a -level response to the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy, to identify key opportunities and barriers in each locality and ensure coordinated implementation.

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Introduction

Greater Manchester is known globally for its heritage and its pioneering and progressive culture, which reflects the distinctive personality of the city-region, its towns, rural communities and its people. A rich history, including the The city-region has an institutional establishment of the modern capacity, culture of collaborative and cooperative movement, and strong partnership working, and delivery track- cultural and sporting assets give record that makes it an example to Greater Manchester a globally other areas in the UK. Over the past ten recognised brand that speaks of years, devolution has become a reality innovation, creativity and social with the election of a city-region Mayor, progress. Its scientific and industrial formation of a Combined Authority, inventions, social movements, art and and local strategic accountability for design, music and sport continue to key services such as health and social create impact throughout the world. care and transport. With support and Greater Manchester’s 2.8 million funding from the UK government, residents live in ten local authority Greater Manchester has developed areas: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, the UK’s largest light-rail system; Oldham, Rochdale, , , invested in institutions to provide a , Trafford and Wigan. The city- critical mass of advanced materials region is located at the heart of the UK, expertise; and successfully supported with easy access to all of its constituent long term unemployed residents nations, and is only a short distance into work through the Working Well from other major cities such as Leeds programme. This strategy capitalises on and . is the capacity, powers and resources that the UK’s third largest, with international have been granted to the city-region. connections to over 200 countries, over The Greater Manchester Local 50 of which are long-haul. The strategic Industrial Strategy charts the next location, strength, and growth potential phase of the city-region’s social of Greater Manchester puts it in an and economic leadership and sets ideal place to act as one of the core out a bold vision for the future. drivers of the Northern Powerhouse.

18 It is focused and ambitious, building This included a formal six-week on the existing strengths in the local consultation in Autumn 2018 when economy and those areas where the over 20 events were held, attended city-region has the potential to excel by 500 stakeholders, which resulted in the future. It also recognises the in more than 120 written responses. challenges faced and actions required The Greater Manchester Local to overcome them. One of these Industrial Strategy represents a challenges is to raise productivity true partnership between Greater across all parts of the economy by Manchester and government. It will improving the quality of jobs, adopting support coordinated action around a new technologies and designing coherent vision and agreed common new business models, including set of outcomes. It sets clear priorities in the foundational economy. to capitalise on the research and The aim of this strategy is to boost industrial strengths of the city-region, productivity and prosperity by setting and to strengthen the foundations of a course for capitalising on the biggest the economy in line with the policy opportunities, but at its centre is a plan framework set out in the national for building on Greater Manchester’s Industrial Strategy. Both government best asset: its people. It aims to ensure and Greater Manchester are committed all of Greater Manchester’s people to delivering this strategy over the thrive and prosper, that everyone is long term. It will continue to inform supported to reach their full potential, the strategic use of local funding that young people have hope and streams and, where relevant, spending optimism for the future, and that and decisions at the national level. nobody is left behind. It is also a plan for the environment, to ensure that Greater Manchester becomes carbon neutral in ways that drive local innovation, and improves quality of life and health to benefit Greater Manchester’s residents. The strategy has been built from the ground up with local and national stakeholders, including business and social enterprise, trade unions, universities and colleges, local authorities, government departments and agencies, and community and voluntary organisations.

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Greater Manchester’s Industrial Strategy

This strategy is agreed by government and the leaders of Greater Manchester. It is underpinned by a shared understanding of the place and its people, and is designed to enable the city-region to go further and faster towards its ambitions than ever before, while meeting key national objectives. The Greater Manchester Local ``safe, decent and affordable housing Industrial Strategy builds on the in stronger and safer communities; findings of the Greater Manchester ``a high quality cultural and leisure offer Independent Prosperity Review and its for everyone in a green city-region; detailed analysis of the local economy and the social and environmental ``better health, and quality care challenges that must be overcome. and support for people to live fulfilling and healthy lives; and The Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy will not work in ``an age-friendly city-region and isolation. It complements other national safer and stronger communities. and local strategies including the Successful implementation of the national Industrial Strategy and the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Greater Manchester Strategy ‘Our Strategy will depend on national People, Our Place’. Our People, Our approaches to the Grand Challenges Place sets a clear objective to make and wider policy, but also a number Greater Manchester one of the best of plans being developed locally to places in the world to grow up, get on shape the future of the city-region in life and grow old – where there is: for generations to come. These ``a good start in life for everyone, with include the draft Greater Manchester children starting school ready to learn; Spatial Framework, the Infrastructure Framework, the 2040 Transport ``excellent opportunities for young Delivery Plan, the White Paper people, who are equipped for life; on Unified Public Services for the ``a thriving, productive, carbon People of Greater Manchester, the neutral economy, providing good Health and Social Care Prospectus, employment and opportunities and the 5-Year Environment Plan. to progress and develop for all; The modern Industrial Strategy sets ``world-class connectivity – digitally out government’s ambition to create and through an integrated an economy that boosts productivity transport network – within all and earning power throughout the UK. parts of Greater Manchester;

20 To achieve this ambition, it identifies and Clean Growth – where the UK has actions around five foundations the potential to be at the forefront of of productivity – Ideas, People, industries of the future. The Greater Infrastructure, Business Environment Manchester Local Industrial Strategy and Places – which are the essential takes an approach that builds on attributes of every successful economy. local strengths and develops a city- It also identifies opportunities grouped region specific approach to tackling under four Grand Challenges – the foundations of productivity and Artificial Intelligence and Data, the capitalising on the Grand Challenges. Ageing Society, Future of Mobility,

Shared priorities between local leaders, government, and local stakeholders

This Local Industrial Strategy has innovation and commercialisation, identified opportunities to capitalise while also improving the health of on the city-region’s industrial the population, extending healthy, and research strengths, and the independent life expectancy to ambitions and leadership of its take advantage of the longevity institutions, to harness opportunities dividend and address the Ageing from all four Grand Challenges and Society Grand Challenge, whilst create industries of the future: also reducing inequalities and ``In health innovation, Greater increasing productivity. Manchester has internationally ``In advanced materials and recognised research capabilities, manufacturing, Greater Manchester one of the largest life sciences is the home of graphene and other clusters outside the South East, and revolutionary 2D materials which a devolved health and care system. have the potential to provide new But the city-region also has worse ways of addressing all four Grand health outcomes than other UK Challenges. Greater Manchester’s regions, such as the South East, and complementary advanced the barriers that poor health creates manufacturing base, which is being to work and progression in work are transformed by the Fourth Industrial an important explanation for slow Revolution, provides the industrial overall growth in the last decade. capacity to commercialise these new These factors combined create the technologies and create a world- opportunity for the city-region to be leading cluster in advanced materials. a global leader on health and care

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``Greater Manchester has the largest As these new industries grow and digital and creative cluster outside flourish, they will create significant the South East, with the potential global competence and additional to create international significant value in the economy of Greater clusters in broadcasting, content Manchester and for the UK. creation and media, and cyber The consultation process and evidence security. The establishment of developed also stressed the importance a Government Communications of the foundations of productivity. Headquarters (GCHQ) hub in the The foundations will enable growth in city-region will anchor the growth areas of strength and opportunity, and of an internationally important support productivity improvements cyber and digital security cluster across all sectors to benefit all in Greater Manchester. At the parts of Greater Manchester. For same time, cross-cutting digital Greater Manchester this will mean: strengths offer the potential to increase the use of productivity- ``leading industrial, social and enhancing digital technologies, economic transformation through artificial intelligence and big data in innovation and the spread of ideas all sectors to meet the AI and Data throughout the city-region; Grand Challenge whilst also driving ``designing a skills and work system health innovation and clean growth. that ensures all people reach their ``The transition to a carbon neutral potential and employers have the economy is a global challenge and skills to deliver the Industrial Strategy; central to the Clean Growth Grand ``developing a single infrastructure Challenge. Greater Manchester’s plan – and identifying opportunities city-region mission for carbon to fund that plan - to put in place the neutral living by 2038 is a significant integrated 21st century infrastructure opportunity to deliver environmental needed for digital driven, clean and health benefits to residents, while and inclusive growth; and also creating new green industries and jobs capitalising on Greater ``transforming the productivity of Manchester’s research assets and businesses and all forms of enterprise large low carbon goods and services by strengthening leadership and sector. These already include 2,500 management, increasing innovation companies, employing over 45,000 adoption, digital transformation, people. This will be delivered through and raising levels of exports. a series of Greater Manchester- The Greater Manchester Good led mission-orientated projects. Employment Charter will engage Greater Manchester’s employers, By focusing on these four areas this improving productivity, wages strategy will pioneer emerging sectors. and job quality in all sectors.

22 Greater Manchester will also create ``To be successful in this, the city- the optimum conditions for social region’s innovation ecosystem should: enterprises and cooperatives to thrive. facilitate business adoption and ``supporting all places in Greater commercialisation of the cutting- Manchester to realise their full edge innovations developed in potential by ensuring that the universities and innovation, research conditions are in place for investment and technology organisations; provide and jobs growth across the city- the technical skills industry needs, region; and equipping people – and employment opportunities across through improvements in skills and the city-region; and be supported transport accessibility – to access by the right infrastructure for large- jobs across the conurbation. scale productivity improvements. These proposals amount to more than ``Likewise, an integrated approach the sum of their parts. For example: to digital infrastructure and improving the availability of digital ``By capitalising on health innovation skills will underpin the city-region’s assets Greater Manchester will growing digital industries and the improve the health of the local wider digitalisation of the whole population, enabling residents to fully economy. Greater Manchester’s participate in the economy, progress digital capabilities intersect with in their careers and age well. By the city-region’s dynamic creative providing the health and social care and cultural industries, as well as workforce with the skills to fulfil the its leading financial professional new roles, the skills system will enable services sector. Harnessing these the increased adoption of new health capabilities will again improve the and care technologies, processes and productivity of businesses across the services. Improving the health of the city-region and increase inclusivity. people in Greater Manchester will also improve the productivity of the city- ``The carbon neutral clean growth region’s businesses and economy. mission is, by its very nature, cross sectoral and it will shape ``The focus on advanced materials all actions in this strategy. and manufacturing in this strategy will tackle some of the key strategic Collectively, these priorities create challenges the city-region and UK a clear place-based Industrial face, developing new technologies Strategy for the future of Greater and designing products and services Manchester’s economy. such as energy storage to support carbon neutrality, or new medical devices to support older people to stay in their homes for longer.

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Understanding the Greater Manchester Economy: the Independent Prosperity Review

The success of devolution in Greater Manchester has been built on a strong evidence base – particularly through the 2009 Manchester Independent Economic Review1. The Greater Manchester Local Industrial The Prosperity Review recommended Strategy continues this approach. the Greater Manchester Local It is built on the robust assessment Industrial Strategy focuses on the of the city-region’s economy, and potential for these sectors to create what needs to be done to improve new, highly productive activity productivity and drive prosperity that at the frontier of innovation. was assembled through the Greater The Prosperity Review highlighted Manchester Independent Prosperity 2 that the transition to a carbon neutral Review (‘the Prosperity Review’) . economy is a global challenge, but Key findings Greater Manchester’s leadership and ambitions have the potential to drive Opportunities: Greater Manchester has mission-based innovation to attract become one of the most economically investment into new green industries diverse city-regions in the UK, and and bring direct benefits to residents contains a sophisticated mix of from quality of life improvements, such industries and supply chains. Within as better air quality and housing, as this complex economy, the city-region well as easy access to enhanced green has internationally recognised research spaces and urban planting. A mission- strengths and complementary industrial based approach will harness creativity specialisms in health innovation and from across the economy including advanced materials, as also identified that of the digital sector alongside in the 2016 Science and Innovation education and training, to drive Audit3. These are supported by innovation that interacts with all citizens other high productivity sectors that, and businesses across the city-region. if not nationally unique, remain important strengths. These include manufacturing, digital and creative industries, and professional services.

24 The Greater Manchester Independent Prosperity Review

The Prosperity Review was ``Professor Mariana Mazzucato: established to undertake a Professor of Economics of detailed and rigorous assessment Innovation and Public Value of the current state and future and Director of the University potential of Greater Manchester’s College London Institute for economy. Ten years on from Innovation and Public Purpose. the path-breaking Manchester ``Professor Henry Overman: Independent Economic Review, it Professor of Economic Geography, provides a fresh understanding London School of Economics, and of what needs to be done to Director of the What Works Centre improve productivity and drive for Local Economic Growth. prosperity across the city-region. Independent of local and national ``Darra Singh: Government and Public government, the Prosperity Review Sector Lead at Ernst and Young. was led by a panel of six experts: The Panel commissioned new cutting- ``Professor Diane Coyle (Chair): edge analysis of key economic issues, Bennett Professor of Public including productivity and pay, Policy, University of Cambridge. supply chains and international trade, innovation ecosystems and sources ``Stephanie Flanders: Head of of global competitiveness, education Bloomberg Economics. and skills, and infrastructure. ``Professor Ed Glaeser: Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, Harvard University.

The Prosperity Review confirmed The four universities together Greater Manchester’s broad and generated almost 20,000 first-degree relatively deep base of innovation, graduates and graduate retention and the findings of the 2016 Science rates, already strong, are rising. The and Innovation Audit, produced jointly city-region has globally significant by Greater Manchester, and recognised concentrations of East and government. There are four research excellence in graphene and universities with main campuses in the other advanced materials and in life city-region (University of Manchester, sciences and health innovation. Manchester Metropolitan University, and ) with over 96,000 students.

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Innovation and research strengths At the same time, average resident are also present in data sciences and earnings (taking account of inflation) analytics and other aspects relating to have fallen and the average worker digital technologies and applications, earns 81p an hour less in real and in energy and industrial terms than they did in 2006. biotechnology. The city-region’s There have also been significant research and innovation assets and disparities in the economic performance capabilities in these areas offer scope experience across the city-region. for future international excellence. Between 1996 and 2016, total GVA Economic challenges: While Greater grew by 83 per cent in Manchester, Manchester has made great strides 54 per cent in Salford and 52 per cent over the past few decades to become in Trafford. Comparable figures for an increasingly integrated and modern Rochdale and Tameside were 24 per city-region, there is still significant cent and 8 per cent, respectively. While potential to raise productivity and fulfil the disparity in GVA performance is its potential as the UK’s second growth stark, inequality on some measures has pole. High productivity firms exist in improved across the city-region: the all sectors; the challenge is to move number of neighbourhoods that are more companies up the productivity among the 10 per cent most deprived curve in both high-skill and innovative nationally has declined from 396 in frontier sectors, as well as in the ‘long 2004 to 348 in 2015. Nevertheless, tail’ of low productivity businesses social and spatial disparities contribute in the city-region, and to deliver to the productivity challenge and inclusive growth across the region. tackling their causes is fundamental to In recent years the balance of the success of this Industrial Strategy. employment has shifted towards lower productivity sectors and activities, and the share of low productivity sectors in Greater Manchester (those with lower than £30,000 GVA4 per worker at 2013 prices) increased from 38 per cent of the economy in 2005 to 42 per cent in 2015. Retail, social care, hospitality and tourism account for the bulk of low paying jobs, in what is often called the ‘foundational’ economy.

26 Greater Manchester’s economy in context

In the decade prior to the 2008/09 cent per annum). But the overall recession, Greater Manchester’s rate of economic growth has slowed economy experienced strong growth. significantly, falling to 1.5 per cent Between 1998 and 2008 real GVA per annum between 2010 and 2016, grew by 2.6 per cent per annum, significantly lower than the national broadly in line with the UK’s overall average (2.1 per cent per annum). average (2.7 per cent). Over the same Real productivity growth fell to period, real productivity grew by 1.6 just under 0.1 per cent per annum per cent per annum, the same as the in the city-region compared to 0.5 UK. Population decline in the city- per cent per annum in the UK. region, which had been more or less More recent data suggests that continuous since the 1970s, started Greater Manchester’s performance to reverse in the run-up to and turn is improving, with continued strong of the millennium; a period where employment growth and sharp employment growth was also strong. improvements in business start-up Employment growth remained rates. Greater Manchester is now one strong after the financial crisis. of the best performing city-regions Between 2010 and 2016 117,000 net outside London for business births, jobs were created, a 1.4 per cent at 115 births per year per 10,000 growth per annum, almost in line working age population compared with the national average (1.6 per to 85 on average for core cities.

Health challenges: The interactions At the same time, the devolved between poor physical and mental structures integrating health and health and growth stand out care in Greater Manchester provide a dramatically in Greater Manchester. nationally unique opportunity to find The city-region continues to have new ways to improve the health of local worse health outcomes than other residents, and link health interventions UK regions and the barriers that poor with local skills provision and other health creates to work and progression services to improve progression in work in work is an important explanation for and address long-term unemployment slow overall growth in the last decade. among older age groups and people The Prosperity Review subsequently with multiple or complex needs. argued that human capital should be at the heart of industrial and economic strategy in the city-region.

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Greater Manchester’s scientific Infrastructure challenges: The city- strengths in life sciences and health region’s infrastructure is not currently innovation also create an ability to serving the needs of the economy well. combine progress at the productivity A long term, integrated approach to and innovation frontier with direct infrastructure planning and funding is health benefits for the whole of needed to put in place the 21st century the city-region’s population. infrastructure needed for sustainable Skills and education challenges: growth and to integrate the different The Prosperity Review highlights the parts of the city-region more effectively. fundamental link between skill levels The Prosperity Review found that and productivity. Greater Manchester parts of Greater Manchester with lower has seen significant improvements in productivity, pay and living standards its workforce qualification profile over need infrastructure that supports the last decade, but the city-region’s both access to jobs in the centre of skills profile still lags behind national the city-region and improved local benchmarks. The Prosperity Review job opportunities. That requires an identified many strengths in Greater integrated transport system providing Manchester’s education and skills affordable, clean and versatile access system, but concluded that it remains to employment, education and other fragmented and is delivering less than economic and social opportunities the sum of its parts. At the moment, located across the city-region. This too many young people are learning also requires integration between in institutions that are not good or planning for transport infrastructure, outstanding, and too many people homes and jobs, and other critical lack the functional and technical skills utilities such as digital, water, flood risk that employers need and that are the management, energy (heat and power) foundations of being able to progress and green space. The Prosperity Review in work. As well as continuing efforts supported the National Infrastructure to improve the supply of skills, the Assessment’s recommendation that an Prosperity Review also found that integrated strategy for infrastructure productivity is being significantly needs to be backed up with stable, limited by low demand for skilled substantial devolved funding. labour and poor skills utilisation by Increasing productivity, innovation businesses and in the public sector. and competitiveness: A key route for The Prosperity Review recommended improving the quality of jobs in all parts taking an integrated approach, like of Greater Manchester will be to identify Greater Manchester and government new industrial opportunities based are already applying in health and social on what different areas are currently care, to create a single education, skills good at and, crucially, where they have and work system for the city-region. potential to move up the value chain.

28 Pioneering work by the University is correlated with earnings per capita of Cambridge explored the idea of and a significant predictor of future economic complexity (the number earnings growth. The analysis, based of industries in which a particular on the current industry profile and local authority has a comparative skills mix in a local authority, identifies advantage), providing a powerful new possibilities to diversify into new way to identify future growth prospects specialisms and increase the level of and options to shape the trajectory complexity in a locality. It demonstrates of local economies. The analysis that there are opportunities for new, clearly demonstrates that, at a UK and higher productivity industries in all Greater Manchester level, the level districts in the city-region (see Figure 2). of economic complexity of a district

Figure 2. Geographical distribution of economic complexity across the UK

Local authorities with a score above 1 are ‘competitive’ or have ‘revealed comparative advantage’ in a particular industry or mix of industries.

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The Prosperity Review highlights Similarly, there are opportunities that management and leadership in health and care for in-work skills within businesses are critical to progression through the integration capitalising on future potential and of NHS and social care services and comparative strength. Improving new technology-led innovations management quality encourages for care at home. As new digital demand for, and better utilisation technologies become ever more of, highly skilled employees and pervasive, foundational sectors may improves business processes, both find themselves at the frontier of of which contribute to productivity technology and innovation, creating improvements. The Prosperity Review opportunities for first-movers. argued that the city-region’s network Coordination: The Panel conclude of business advice services and the that, although investment in developing Good Employment Charter assets is required, most of their should be aligned with national recommendations rely on ensuring programmes and focused on critical the right powers are devolved to the factors for raising skills utilisation and city-region, and improved governance productivity (particularly by improving and coordination – both locally and leadership and management in firms). between local and national government. Equally important is a business Better coordination would make the environment where all firms are economy function more effectively enabled to innovate, including firms as a system, and lead to more in the ‘long tail’ and foundational effective use of existing resources sectors. The Prosperity Review by achieving a more productive considered two foundational economy balance between national and local sectors in detail - retail and social decision-making about expenditure. care - which are major employers but have concentrations of low pay and low productivity jobs. Findings indicate there are opportunities to transform these sectors and move them up the productivity frontier through digitalisation and innovation, and to explore the productivity of social and cooperative forms of enterprise. The city-region already has emerging strengths in e-commerce and the use of technology in retail.

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Health Innovation: global leadership on improving population health and tackling the Ageing Society Grand Challenge

Greater Manchester aims to lead the UK and the world in the roll-out of innovative new health and care solutions improving local population health. The national Ageing Society Grand change, including the need for Challenge aims to secure five extra, significant innovation to transform healthy, independent years of life by the health and social care system. 2035, with reduced health inequalities. In deprived areas, increasing healthy life In order to maximise the local expectancy is even more of a challenge. contribution to this national This challenge will be reflected in parts mission, Greater Manchester will of Greater Manchester, as healthy focus on adopting innovations life expectancy varies significantly that support healthy ageing. across the conurbation. For example, Tameside and Manchester are two Good health will drive Greater of the seven local authority areas Manchester forward with the worst levels of healthy life Greater Manchester’s population expectancy in the UK5. Poor population is growing and getting older. The health (compared to the UK average) Prosperity Review confirmed that the is also a very significant barrier to forecast 13 per cent growth in the local economic growth and productivity. population by 2040 only includes a Levels of worklessness for people with five per cent increase in the working physical and mental health conditions age population, compared to 50 per in Greater Manchester remain well cent growth for over-65s and 100 per above national averages, and have risen cent growth for over-85s. The national among people over 50, despite falling Industrial Strategy includes an ambition amongst the city-region’s population for people to enjoy ‘five extra healthy, overall. Poor health is also a major independent years of life by 2035’; to contributor to low in-work productivity. narrow health inequalities between the richest and poorest; and (via the Ageing A global opportunity Society Grand Challenge) to position Greater Manchester has a unique the UK as an international leader in opportunity to use its research and health, care and ageing innovation. industry strengths in health and care However, the UK faces major innovation to improve local population challenges to improving population health, lead health and care system health and capitalising on the transformation and create nationally opportunities created by demographic significant economic opportunities.

32 Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``Through the Greater Manchester strategic aspirations set out in Ageing Hub, link the Greater this Local Industrial Strategy, Manchester health and care Greater Manchester will: innovation pipeline to global ``Continue using devolved health economic opportunities and social care arrangements around healthy ageing, and to act as a test-bed for large accelerate the pace of health scale clinical and med-tech trials, and care system transformation accelerating the pace of application by identifying a home for a of new technologies to manage prospective International Centre and treat diseases, linked to core for Action on Healthy Ageing. strengths in genomics, precision ``Capitalise on the broader health, data analytics, and real economic and innovation potential world environment clinical trials, of demographic change by improving residents’ health and creating a city-region test-bed to developing new export orientated trial close-to-market goods and products and services. services for older people, testing ``Lead the transformation of health new opportunities and linking and care systems to respond to the them to Greater Manchester’s needs of an ageing population by business, export and skills base. establishing a Greater Manchester- The specific actions identified government Innovation Partnership in this chapter will contribute around the Ageing Society Grand to, and complement, the Challenge, and the implementation delivery of these aspirations. of the NHS Long Term Plan.

The devolution of health budgets and trusts, and NHS England with a powers creates an unprecedented collective spend of £6bn per annum. opportunity to accelerate innovation Health improvement is consequently adoption across the health and one of Greater Manchester’s social care system, capitalising on greatest opportunities and one of the Greater Manchester Health and its most significant challenges. Social Care Partnership which brings The model introduced by Health together partners including 10 local Innovation Manchester provides an authorities, 10 clinical commissioning integrated academic health science groups, 12 NHS trusts and foundation and innovation system that is linked

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34 to the demand for innovation in the Greater Manchester will continue to city-region’s health and care system, use its devolved health and social care ensuring a pipeline between supply arrangements, excellence in health and demand to drive new ideas, research and thriving life sciences and products and services. All of Greater digital industries to act as a test-bed Manchester’s NHS trusts, clinical for large-scale clinical and medical commissioning groups and councils technology trials, accelerating the pace are part of the Health Innovation of application of new technologies to Manchester network-embedding a city- manage and treat physical and mental region approach to innovation priorities health problems, and integrate health and need that is accelerating R&D, and social care through digitalisation. clinical trials, real world testing and the This will drive innovation linked to adoption of innovations with a stable the city-region’s core strengths in and diverse population of almost three genomics, precision health, data million. This gives Greater Manchester analytics, and real world environment the tools to bring specialisms in fields clinical trials, benefitting Greater like precision medicine, genomics, Manchester residents’ health and health informatics and real world creating new businesses, technology clinical trials to bear on clearly defined industries and inward investment. health and care priorities while driving new technology industries that can be scaled up and the technology exported. Greater Manchester has already attracted major new investment into the city-region by providing the certainty industry partners need to develop new medicines, technologies, products and services.

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Health and Care Innovation Assets

Greater Manchester has one of This is complemented by cross-overs the largest life sciences clusters with a deep local understanding of and centres of excellence in health the power of digital technologies to research outside south east England. transform traditional approaches This includes excellence in precision to maintaining health and treating medicine, health informatics, ill-health. Strengths in data and bringing clinical research (including big data), analytics, data excellence and innovation into science, computer science, artificial practice. The thriving sector includes intelligence, and imaging are leading companies specialising in med-tech, to innovation in disease prevention, molecular diagnostics, biomarker diagnosis, treatment and in non- , bioinformatics and clinical care. One example is the pharmaceutical manufacturing. NorthWest EHealth Salford Lung Academic-industrial partnerships Study, an internationally recognised are accelerating clinical-industrial exemplar for clinical trials. Salford collaboration and attracting major Royal is one of 16 NHS acute Global companies and platform providers. Digital Exemplars, and is one of the The major biomarker discovery most mature digital health trusts campus developing around the in the UK. The Connected Health recent investment from Qiagen Cities project led by the Farr Institute will embed links between digital, demonstrates the power of data precision care and economic to change care delivery models development. These industries are and develop digital tools valued supported by an excellent digital, by patients and professionals. bio-technology and innovation service sector and specialised business support, incubation and post-incubation facilities through science parks, business schools and enterprise centres.

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This type of innovation is supported Following the Science and by the digital infrastructure Innovation Audit, there have been provided by the shared Greater further developments in the health Manchester care record (part of innovation ecosystem, including the Local Health and Care Record activity to develop The Pankhurst Exemplar programme): a single data Centre: a hub for translational exchange platform; emerging digital research to link clinical research innovation hub; digital accelerator with materials science, informatics, programme; and the legacy of shared social sciences and computer data assets created by Connected science to address major health Health Cities and CityVerve. problems, and generate new start- The city-region also has ups and high-growth clusters. internationally leading strengths These assets include cross-sectoral in ageing research, including partnerships. One example is the the Manchester Institute for Manchester Institute of Health Collaborative Research on Ageing and Performance - a partnership (MICRA) which contains over 300 between City Football Group, Sport researchers, international experts, England and Manchester City Council, and 60+ research projects and which aims to advance sports programmes spanning humanities, medicine and science to improve biology, medicine and health, the health of the community. and science and engineering.

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One of the best places in the world World-class ageing research centres in to grow up, get on and get old the city-region include the University of The World Health Organisation has Manchester Institute for Collaborative designated Greater Manchester the Research on Ageing (MICRA), UK’s first Age Friendly city-region. Health Innovation Manchester, the Greater Manchester is already Dermapharmacology Unit Partnership deploying innovative programmes to between University of Manchester prevent ill-health in middle and older and Salford Royal, the Manchester age and keep people in work, active, Biomedical Research Centre, and and encourage healthier consumer the new Older People and Frailty habits. Programmes like Living Well at Unit. Government has access to the Home will reduce the need for long- innovation and learning coming from term residential care and improve care Greater Manchester through the outcomes using the transformational National Institute for Health Research potential of new assisted-living (NIHR)-funded ‘Older People and technologies. These technologies also Frailty’ and ‘Health Care Systems offer routes to transforming social and Commissioning’ Policy Research care careers. The Greater Manchester Units based in the city-region. Ageing Hub coordinates activity across Greater Manchester will continue to the city-region’s universities, public capitalise on its scientific, research and services, transport, community and digital assets, integrated health and voluntary organisations, and business, care innovation system, and strong and through a formal partnership with track-record of successful partnership the national Centre for Ageing Better. working with government to transform This includes ongoing work to realise the capacity of places to respond to the the economic opportunities of ageing, needs of an ageing population, increase in collaboration with the International economic growth and productivity, Longevity Centre, and identifying how and build the social and economic to design transport infrastructure and foundations for ageing in place. services that support living well in To spearhead the transformation of later life. Greater Manchester’s Ageing health and care systems in response Strategy sets an ambition to become a to the needs of an ageing population, global centre of excellence for ageing, Greater Manchester will establish an pioneering research, technology and Innovation Partnership around the new ideas. The city-region is a European Ageing Society Grand Challenge, with Innovation Partnership on Active and government sitting on its board. This Healthy Ageing “Reference Site”, partnership will develop a credible denoting its inspirational ecosystem and robust innovation pipeline that and the creative and workable solutions adds value to the existing health being developed in the area. and ageing research and innovation asserts in the city-region.

38 This pipeline should also meet the Taken forward locally, the ICAHA ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan, will have a primary goal to drive real including those around digitally enabled world testing and commercialisation of care, and local transformation priorities. health, care and wellbeing innovations The partnership will also develop that support healthy ageing. practice development programmes The Centre will: in coordination with the Accelerated Access Collaborative, provide industry ``drive innovation that improves engagement, accelerate R&D, and population health, increasing support innovation adoption and wellness by preventing premature diffusion. The partnership will also have frailty and changing behaviour to a specific focus on how innovation can reduce the number of people over improve the productivity of the social 50 out of work due to ill-health; care sector. The partnership’s board ``focus on innovation that supports will comprise of representatives from people to live well at home, Greater Manchester (including the reducing the need for long-term Health and Social Care Partnership, residential care and transforming Health Innovation Manchester and the social care careers through new Greater Manchester Ageing Hub) and models of care and treatment government (including BEIS, DHSC, outside clinical settings. This will the Office for Life Sciences, and UK capitalise on the transformational Research and Innovation (UKRI)) to potential of new assisted-living link national and local priorities. It will technologies and develop careers invite the National Innovation Centre in care with progression through for Ageing to attend to ensure the education and apprenticeships, Innovation Partnership complements enabling people to keep well and leading work elsewhere in the country. live independently in their own A home for health innovation homes and communities; and and healthy ageing ``work with the National Innovation To link Greater Manchester’s health Centre for Ageing to coordinate and care innovation pipeline to global programmes that accelerate opportunities around healthy ageing, the commercialisation of ageing Greater Manchester will identify a home products and services nationally and for a prospective International Centre internationally, and enhance the UK’s for Action on Healthy Ageing (ICAHA), position as a global thought leader to complement the National Innovation and place to do business for healthy Centre for Ageing in Newcastle. ageing. ICAHA will include a focus on parts of Greater Manchester that experience some of the most significant health inequalities in the UK, such as Rochdale, Oldham, Tameside, and Wigan.

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The Innovation Partnership and ICAHA ageing, test new goods and services will complement the wider work already targeted at the over-50s, and promote underway to focus on the social and independent living including in fields economic opportunities created such as smart devices, housing and by demographic change. Greater transport. Greater Manchester will Manchester is exploring options to put calls out to industry for ideas and create a city-region test-bed to trial solutions to health and care challenges and diffuse close-to-market goods and in areas including digital health, services for older people. Independent housing, care, and assisted living. The work is underway, reporting in summer test-bed will include programmes for 2019, to define this opportunity. The SMEs and the social economy, to drive test-bed will work in partnership with the new business models and social other centres of expertise across the innovations that are needed to design Northern Powerhouse to trial new and adopt new products and services. neighbourhood-scale approaches to

Advanced materials and manufacturing: building tomorrow’s technologies and industry today

Greater Manchester will aim to be a world-leading region for innovative firms to experiment with, develop and adopt advanced materials and Made Smarter technologies in manufacturing, facilitating the design of new products and processes. It will support other national centres to build the UK’s leadership in tomorrow’s technologies. Pioneering 2D materials lightweight materials that will reduce Greater Manchester is the home of emissions from the transportation graphene – an international icon of UK system, cleaning water and spent fuels, innovation first isolated in Manchester and delivering new medical devices in 2004. Graphene, alongside many and materials that will improve quality other new two dimensional (2D) of life into older age. The potential materials being developed, has the applications are almost limitless, potential to disrupt all industries and providing an opportunity to cement provide new ways of addressing the Greater Manchester’s global position at Grand Challenges facing the UK. the centre of graphene and 2D material Applications range from new battery research and commercialisation for technologies that will radically improve the benefit of the city-region, Northern energy storage, to resilient and Powerhouse and UK economy.

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To help realise the long-term ``Develop ‘Advanced Materials City’ strategic aspirations set out in in the M62 North East Growth this Local Industrial Strategy. Corridor, focused on opportunities Greater Manchester will: in Greater Manchester’s ``Develop an ecosystem to manufacturing base, attracting commercialise graphene and other significant inward investment advanced materials for the benefit and giving the market for 2D of the Greater Manchester and materials manufacturing a physical UK economy, contributing to the home in Greater Manchester. delivery of all four Grand Challenges, ``Improve productivity in Greater through the actions set out in Manchester’s manufacturing base by this Local Industrial Strategy. adopting Made Smarter approaches ``Strengthen the city-region’s to accelerating the development, advanced materials and design, adoption and creative manufacturing clusters, application of digital technologies, ensuring ‘Graphene City’ in Artificial Intelligence, environmental the former North Campus of technologies, and graphene and 2D the University of Manchester materials, thereby revolutionising is networked with industrial manufacturing processes and and technology parks across accelerating commercial growth. Greater Manchester and leading The specific actions identified in technology parks across the UK. this chapter will contribute to, and complement, the delivery of Greater Manchester’s long-term aspirations.

The city-region is a global hub for This includes the National Graphene transitioning breakthrough graphene Institute, the Graphene Engineering and 2D materials science into new and Innovation Centre, and the Henry disruptive products and applications. Royce Institute for Advanced This lab-to-market leadership Materials Research and Innovation. follows significant investment by government, UKRI, industry and Greater Manchester in state-of- the-art facilities and infrastructure to create a unique ecosystem and supply-chain in the city-region.

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42 Supporting Britain’s economy Manchester also has one of Europe’s These assets sit at the heart of a largest industrial parks in . wider research centre of excellence in New strategic sites for manufacturing advanced materials and manufacturing, activity have been identified in the including: the BP International Centre draft Greater Manchester Spatial for Advanced Materials, the Cockcroft Framework, which will provide a Institute, and nuclear and industrial step-change in the market offer for biotechnology excellence at the industrial sites and provide space University of Manchester; centres for the large-scale production and for advanced materials and surface manufacturing of advanced materials. engineering, computational intelligence, Plans are being progressed by the big data, and industrial digitalisation at University of Manchester to create Manchester Metropolitan University; ‘Graphene City’ in the new innovation the Institute for Materials Research district at the former North Campus and Innovation at the University of of the University of Manchester, Bolton; and specialisms in robotics, which includes three and a half million artificial intelligence and automation square feet of new buildings and at the University of Salford. The facilities. This will act as a magnet for city-region’s universities are also a inward investment and spin-outs. pipeline of manufacturing talent: The largest new growth area in Greater producing 5,000 engineering, maths Manchester is the M62 North East and science graduates per year. Growth Corridor, which cuts across the boundaries of Bury, Oldham and From lab to market Rochdale in the north east of the city- Greater Manchester continues to have a region and also has the potential to strong manufacturing base, employing be a magnet for inward investment over 110,000 people and generating to the UK. Subject to consultation, £8bn of economic output each year. development in this corridor potentially Made up predominantly of small and includes over one million square metres medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the of new mixed employment space. city-region has specialisms in advanced Logistics centres will sit alongside materials, textiles (which has a strong advanced manufacturing, advanced concentration in north east Greater materials production, renewables and Manchester), chemicals, food and drink green technologies. This area has (with a strong cluster in Wigan), and already been identified by government is developing capabilities in industrial as a ‘High Potential Opportunity’ pilot digitalisation. The wider north west area for developing and scaling up region is a substantial manufacturing production of lightweight and specialist and advanced engineering cluster, with materials for the transport sector, specialisms in aerospace and energy particularly light alloys, technical and clear potential to absorb graphene textiles, coatings, graphene and 2D and advanced materials. Greater

43 Industrial Strategy Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy materials, and materials for demanding across the whole manufacturing base by environments. Part of the development encouraging the development, design, in the M62 North East Growth Corridor adoption and creative application of will be a new specialised ‘Advanced digital technologies, artificial intelligence, Materials City’, focused on accelerating environmental technologies, and opportunities in Greater Manchester’s graphene and 2D materials. Greater advanced materials manufacturing Manchester’s ambition is to create a base. The ambition is that this space will world class ‘Made Smarter’ ecosystem, include specialist premises and facilities building on the ongoing North West to pilot particular applications of pilot programme, to support all local advanced materials aligned with Greater manufacturers to become leaders in Manchester’s manufacturing strengths the Fourth Industrial Revolution. and UK strategic priorities, integrated with digital and transport infrastructure. Leading industry Greater Manchester’s global assets Its development will be supported by in graphene and advanced materials, technical expertise and investment complementary research strengths, from both national and local sources. industrial base and development As part of the Advanced Materials City opportunities provide enormous development, Greater Manchester potential to lead the UK effort on partners will develop links to the graphene and advanced materials university sector, local colleges commercialisation. There are clear and schools to complement and opportunities to connect the local improve the existing skills base. manufacturing base to the potential Cutting-edge manufacturing applications of graphene and 2D For the whole of Greater Manchester’s materials, and other innovations in manufacturing base, digitalisation of universities, to drive industries of production, including the increased use the future across the city-region. of artificial intelligence and automation, Greater Manchester will establish presents significant opportunities to a new alliance to coordinate this increase competitiveness and efficiency. multi-faceted opportunity to drive Following the ground-breaking Made faster commercialisation activity Smarter Review, the wider north across a wide range of sectors, based west is now piloting a ‘Made Smarter’ on independent research on the adoption programme to support SMEs lessons learned from the graphene in the manufacturing sector to develop commercialisation experience so far. and adopt digital and environmental The Greater Manchester Graphene, technologies to boost productivity, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing revolutionise manufacturing processes Alliance (GAMMA) will develop the and accelerate commercial growth. This city-region’s advanced materials will identify how a Made Smarter approach and manufacturing strategy. can enable increased productivity

44 The alliance will address gaps in ``advise on inward investment the commercialisation and diffusion and marketing activity for the ecosystem for graphene, advanced sector, including identifying materials and industrial biotechnologies. potential target partners; and GAMMA’s remit will be to: ``identify wider barriers to advanced ``exploit Greater Manchester’s materials commercialisation and strengths by identifying opportunities manufacturing growth - such to apply graphene and advanced as access to finance and the materials technologies to address availability of specialist premises all four Grand Challenges: Ageing and sites – and take forward Society; Artificial Intelligence local actions to address them. and Data; Clean Growth and GAMMA will be led by a board the Future of Mobility; with representatives from Greater ``increase innovation, productivity and Manchester’s universities, commercial growth in the advanced government, the Local Enterprise manufacturing sector through the roll Partnership, GMCA, Growth Company out of Made Smarter, encouraging (Business Growth Hub and MIDAS), firms to adopt new technologies, UKRI and the private sector. such as advanced materials, digital GAMMA will invite a strategic technologies and artificial intelligence; relationship with the Advanced ``drive innovation and productivity by Materials Leadership Council, providing ensuring that the advanced technical a mechanism to coordinate local and design skills required are and national activity in collaboration available to support manufacturing with other UK assets, such as the growth across the city-region; University of Cambridge’s Graphene Centre, the CPI’s Graphene Application ``support the development of advanced Centre and the NPL’s National manufacturing and materials sites Graphene Metrology Centre. across Greater Manchester, including ensuring that ‘Graphene City’ at the University of Manchester is engaged with local plans for an ‘Advanced Materials City’, as well as other industrial and technology parks across the city-region and the UK;

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Digital, Creative and Media: globally recognised clusters and the digitalisation of all sectors

Greater Manchester will be a leading European digital city- region, with the infrastructure, skills, and networks needed to digitalise all sectors, and internationally significant clusters in broadcasting, content creation and media, and cyber security.

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``Underpin cross sectoral growth strategic aspirations set out in by developing a digital skills this Local Industrial Strategy, pipeline and taking a Made Greater Manchester will: Smarter approach to all industries, ``Sustain and grow the internationally supporting firms across Greater significant digital, media and Manchester to adopt productivity- creative industry clusters enhancing digital technologies. in the regional centre. ``Transform the local economy ``Revitalise town centres and and public services by digitally high streets by supporting enabling citizens and making more creatives, digital entrepreneurs, publicly held real-time open data and innovators to start or available for anyone to use. scale a business, social or The specific actions identified cooperative enterprise. in this chapter will contribute ``Grow our existing and emerging to, and complement, the sector strengths in cyber delivery of those aspirations. security, broadcasting, content creation and media, software development, digital telecoms, fintech and e-commerce.

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A strong base In 2018 the digital sector accounted Greater Manchester has the largest for around 70,000 jobs and produced digital and creative sector outside £3.4bn GVA in Manchester alone. London. National assets based in This reiterated the 2016 Science the city-region include MediaCityUK and Innovation Audit’s finding that and , delivered through the city-region has a “fast-growth” significant government investment. opportunity in digital as a key enabling Innovation and creativity are technology across all sectors, with synonymous with culture and a Greater specific opportunities in ‘big data’, Manchester Culture Strategy is being smart cities and the Internet of Things, developed to create the conditions which intersect with the mature for creativity to flourish in every creative, digital and media economy in part of the city-region, enriching the the city-region. Greater Manchester’s lives of all residents and protecting, cultural and creative output, including diversifying and growing Greater its music, art and design, and new Manchester’s unique culture, heritage media content, is recognised around strengths, assets and ecology. the world and is deeply rooted in the city-region’s identity and the ways Government and the creative industries its people work. Growth in the digital sector, through the Creative Industries sector and its inter-connections with Council, have agreed a sector deal that creative and media assets will continue includes a range of activity to boost to propel the city-region’s economic creative sector growth which Greater performance by providing highly Manchester will benefit from. This productive jobs and companies, and includes the location of a regional hub exciting start-ups and scale-ups. of Tech Nation (which supports digital companies and start-ups) in Greater The Prosperity Review also identified Manchester; successful projects as sub-sectors with potential to be part of the £33m Audience of the leading industries of the future. Future Challenge, via the Industrial These stem from the vibrancy and Strategy Challenge Fund; and a £4m coverage of the networks of the city- Creative Scale Up programme to region’s digital industries, which have support creative firms in three English created intersections with Greater regions including Greater Manchester. Manchester’s traditional sector strengths. E-commerce and retail The Science and Innovation Audit tech businesses in the city-region are and Prosperity Review identified thriving through cross-fertilisation the digital sector as an important between digital companies and and growing strength in Greater textile and clothing manufacturers, Manchester’s economy. wholesalers and retailers.

48 The emergence of ‘fin-tech’ in Greater new opportunities to bring the world’s Manchester is taking place at the most exciting artists and creatives interface between financial and to the city-region and embed further professional service companies and interactions with content creators, digital firms. Digital technologies are digital companies and audiences. being used to design new business These investments have changed the models and applications that link make-up of the creative and media venues, artists and consumers in new industries across the north and drawn ways. Strengths in software engineering in international investment, talent, and digital telecoms underpin the and visitors. This creates a powerful health of these new industries. platform for all firms, from small start-ups to major multinationals, Opportunity: Broadcasting to innovate, invest, create content and content creation and thrive in the city-region. Two opportunities stand out for Greater Greater Manchester will consider Manchester. Firstly, the city-region’s creating a fund to both grow local, broadcasting sector is internationally regionally based independent recognised, and sits at the heart of production companies and attract a wider content creation and media larger scale TV, film and drama content sector, underpinned by technological production companies to relocate to innovation. Over the past decades the city-region (subject to approval by there has been significant public and the Combined Authority). This would, in private investment to build the physical turn, be supported by a hub and spoke facilities to grow, retain and attract network to support apprenticeships, media talent in Greater Manchester – internships, work placements and from the facilities at MediaCityUK, the graduate recruitment in TV, film and home of BBC North, ITV, the Landing, drama content production. This would and dock10, to The Space Studios, and improve access to employment in The Sharp Project. The city-region has content production for talent from strong academic strengths in creativity diverse communities and those furthest including the University of Salford’s away from the labour market. MediaCityUK campus and Manchester Metropolitan University’s concentration of expertise in creative design, which will continue to grow through additions like the forthcoming School for Digital Arts. Planned investments including The Factory – a world-class cultural space being developed at the border of Manchester and Salford – will create

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Opportunity: Digital and Building on existing relationships, creative clusters as drivers closer working with government of inclusive growth to fully realise this opportunity is Smaller digital and creative clusters a priority and the city-region will exist across the city-region, usually continue to bring strategic resources underpinned by strong cultural assets and iinfluence to support its growth and often linked to social enterprises throughout Greater Manchester. and cooperatives. From the creative Digital by default cluster in to the emerging Increasing digitalisation and application digital sector springing up around of artificial intelligence, big data, Old Baths, from Wigan Old data science and data analytics, and Court’s innovative approach to the robotics are impacting on every sector repurposing of old buildings in the of Greater Manchester’s economy as town centre and the increasingly well as every aspect of people’s lives diverse offer in Oldham’s creative and work. These new technologies and independent quarter, it is clear create significant opportunities to raise that the digital and creative industries productivity and competitiveness in the can be a driving force in revitalising city-region’s frontier and foundational local towns and high streets. Greater sectors. However, they also present Manchester will continue to support challenges including ensuring that the development of digital and creative the local business base is capable of clusters across the city-region. absorbing them and that citizens have Opportunity: Cyber Security the skills and abilities to thrive in the Secondly, the cyber security sector, new digital age. A critical issue for already a strength in Greater Greater Manchester will be ensuring Manchester, is set to grow significantly that its large, diverse and growing with the creation of a large Government financial and professional services Communication Headquarters (GCHQ) sector – which has been the engine operation in the city-region. This will be of jobs growth in the city-region for complemented by a new office of The over a decade – continues to evolve Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical and grow as increasing use of artificial Research - a major national centre intelligence changes business models that will drive collaboration between in this sector, and creates new demand GCHQ and local universities. The for digital skills amongst its workforce. direct and associated supply-chain Made Smarter is demonstrating that opportunities from strengths in cyber the digitalisation of production in security for residents, universities Greater Manchester’s manufacturing and businesses are unique in the sector can increase competitiveness UK, within a growing global industry and efficiency in existing firms. estimated to be worth £170bn annually.

50 Taking into account the learning Similarly, high quality pervasive digital from this programme, Greater infrastructure is a pre-requisite to Manchester intends to take a ‘Made success and will be delivered through Smarter’ approach to improve the market engagement and the Greater productivity of all industries by Manchester Digital Infrastructure encouraging the development, design, Plan. This is articulated further in adoption and creative application the Infrastructure Section. Greater of digital technologies, alongside Manchester’s £3m Digital Skills Pilot, skills development programmes. agreed at the 2018 Budget, will see the city-region and government work Digitally driven strategy together to boost digital skills. Underpinning digital and media growth As part of the city-region’s Digital is the critical importance of ensuring a Strategy, the Greater Manchester proper pipeline of digital skills and talent Combined Authority is investing in needed across all industries. 31 per cent digitally enabling citizens which not of businesses responding to the 2019 only includes the focus on basic digital Manchester Digital Skills Audit reported skills and connectivity but also a turning away work due to being unable technology platform to improve secure to recruit the breadth of skillsets information-sharing across public required to deliver it. Action is required services to inform more comprehensive to raise awareness of the range of family and citizen support. This will careers and opportunities available and improve the public sector’s ability to to up-skill and re-train the existing and target programmes to the specific future workforce so that people can needs of an individual and evaluate adapt to the fast pace of technological their impact more effectively, whilst change. This will be a significant giving residents greater transparency challenge as over a fifth of Greater on how their data is working for Manchester’s population lack one or them. Greater Manchester already more of the five basic digital skills. The has very productive collaborations city-region’s new National Institute with government on digital policy and of Coding is one example of the work strategy and is building closer ties with Greater Manchester is already doing to the national Connected Places and meet the demands for technical digital Digital Catapults to support this work. skills. The city-region must also instil the Greater Manchester will also establish design skills and creativity needed to closer ties with the new National Centre build on the inter-connections between for Data Ethics and Innovation and our local industries, and maintain the Office for AI through a new Greater adaptability and resilience in the city- Manchester Office for Data Analytics. region that helps the economy respond positively to economic change.

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Open Data World-leading industries In parallel, it is recognised that leading Finally, the Prosperity Review highlights digital cities appreciate the value of that firms that trade internationally are releasing local data to stimulate open more productive. In a digital future this innovation and enable productivity will be even more important, since for growth. By making more data many industries, competitors will be publicly available, it is possible to global, not local. One of the initiatives drive productivity improvements and to support the internationalisation investment in diverse sectors, such of the digital and media industries in as mobility. For example, the financial the city-region will be showcasing the value of ’s open digital and creative output of Greater data scheme initiative was estimated at Manchester, providing platforms for £130m per year and is a cornerstone artists, musicians, makers, designers, of London’s narrative as a global coders and developers to promote digital city. In Greater Manchester this products and content around the world. would support the city-region’s green Government will work with Greater ambitions by enabling modal shift. Manchester and trailblazing digital and Greater Manchester will therefore creative companies in the city-region initiate a review of local data. to promote a locally funded biennial Government will continue to provide international event that showcases the policy support on design, best practice, best of Greater Manchester’s digital and available data sources. The review and creative industries. This will be will identify willing partners and data supported by a wider programme and owners - including real-time big data digital platform to curate and promote owners - to identify and address conversations, approaches and barriers to making this data openly products unique to Greater Manchester. available for re-use. The assumption will be that data that can be made available should be made available, unless it is prohibitively expensive or not appropriate (for legal, commercial or security reasons) to do so. This will include an open consultation with the public to allow citizens, businesses and other stakeholders to come forward with their suggestions. It will report by the end of 2020.

52 The Clean Growth Grand Challenge: driving rapid decarbonisation

Greater Manchester’s 5-year Environment Plan sets out its long- term environmental vision “to be carbon neutral by 2038”. Greater Manchester will launch the first city-region mission to achieve this. Government welcomes this locally led mission, which will support the delivery of the government’s Clean Growth Grand Challenge. Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``tackle poor air quality - the largest strategic aspirations set out in environmental risk to the public’s this Local Industrial Strategy, health – through a co-ordinated Greater Manchester will: Clean Air Plan developed by Greater ``aim to achieve carbon neutral Manchester’s local authorities; living within the Greater ``accelerate new models of local Manchester economy by renewable energy generation, 2038 - driving innovation, the storage and efficiency within the creation of new technologies, city-region, adopting a ‘whole system improved resource efficiency, approach’, and testing the creation and improved quality of life. of a local energy market; and Greater Manchester’s 5-year ``support Greater Manchester Environment Plan sets out its long-term enterprises to accelerate the environmental vision “to be carbon implementation of energy and neutral by 2038”. Greater Manchester material efficiency measures in the will launch the first city-region design and production of products mission to achieve this, aiming to: and services through the Growth ``deliver environmental improvements Hub and local partners’ activity. that directly enhance well-being, Finally, Greater Manchester will health, resilience, biodiversity and improve air quality by developing quality of life, including by enhancing a coordinated Greater Manchester the natural capital of the city-region; Clean Air Plan to tackle poor air ``design and trial innovative technology quality, the largest environmental and financial mechanisms to risk to the public’s health. support delivery of energy The specific actions identified efficient homes, buildings and low in this chapter will contribute to, carbon transport, helping to to and complement, the delivery reach the point at which all new of these aspirations. homes and commercial/industrial buildings are net zero carbon;

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Taking action nationally The draft Greater Manchester Spatial and regionally Framework sets out proposals to create In March 2018, the Greater Manchester sustainable places, recognising the Combined Authority began a social, environmental and economic consultation on adopting a target inter-relationships between all to achieve carbon neutrality in the communities and parts of the region. city-region by 2038, over a decade The co-ordinated Clean Air Plan being earlier than the 2050 date adopted developed by Greater Manchester’s by the European Commission. Greater local authorities will set out an approach Manchester sets out its aim to achieve to tackle poor air quality - the largest this in the 5-Year Environment Plan4, environmental risk to public health. published in March 2019. This aim Intervening at the right and wider environment ambitions scale and pace present an opportunity to deliver improvements that directly benefit While significant progress has been Greater Manchester residents by made in improving the city-region’s improving air quality, mobility, housing environment, there is a recognised and access to green space, as well as need to go further and faster. driving local innovation and growth in Greater Manchester’s commitment to green industries. It is an opportunity becoming a carbon neutral city-region for Greater Manchester to emerge as provides an opportunity to accelerate one of the leading green cities in the this progress and also creates real world, offering a high quality of life that potential to be the first city-region attracts and retains skilled workers. to determine how to apply the many new individual and interconnected The government’s 25 Year Environment technologies, services and social Plan4 sets out UK-wide actions to innovations needed to dramatically improve the environment within a reduce carbon emissions and improve generation, and designated Greater the environment, while growing the Manchester as the UK’s Urban economy. Greater Manchester is big Pioneer for testing innovative ways to enough to test new solutions at scale protect and enhance natural capital. and small enough to understand what Through this, Greater Manchester does and does not work. The city-region is already connecting people with already has a diverse and thriving the environment, and testing new group of around 2,500 companies tools and methods for creating (which employ over 45,000 people) natural liveable places that improve in low carbon environmental goods mental and physical health and child and services on which to build the new development. This includes the ‘City types of jobs and industries at the of Trees’ initiative for increasing urban forefront of clean and green growth. planting across the city-region.

54 However, there are serious technical multi-purpose advanced materials, and and design challenges to tackle to industrial biotechnology (Manchester realise carbon neutrality, including: Institute of Biotechnology, University of ``the need to rapidly increase the Manchester), smart meters and Energy energy efficiency of residential and House (University of Salford) and non-residential buildings – significantly hydrogen fuel cells (including through increasing the uptake of basic the Greater Manchester Hydrogen insulation measures and at the same Partnership and the Manchester Fuel time starting to deliver and then Cell Innovation Centre at Manchester upscale deeper retrofit of homes; Metropolitan University). There are also opportunities for the social economy ``decarbonising the heating of to design solutions that will transform homes and heating and cooling of energy systems, reduce energy poverty commercial buildings – this applies and improve the environment. to both existing and new buildings; A city-region mission ``significantly upscaling local renewable energy generation and storage The Prosperity Review highlighted with deployment of smart energy the opportunity to use the local management systems; and ambition around carbon neutrality and environmental improvements to drive ``decarbonising the transport system, mission-based innovation and achieve accelerating the uptake of electric the coordinated approach required. vehicles and providing the charging To maximise the local contribution infrastructure to facilitate this. to the national Clean Growth Grand Many of the solutions to these Challenge, Greater Manchester challenges do exist, though large- will launch a city-region Mission to scale decarbonisation will require achieve carbon neutral living within increased effort to upscale their the Greater Manchester economy by deployment. Viable mass deployment 2038. This will be delivered through requires further innovation to reduce a series of Greater Manchester-led costs and increase efficiency and mission-orientated projects, supporting interconnectivity. This in turn requires delivery of the government’s increased and coordinated cross- Clean Growth Grand Challenge. sector and cross-disciplinary research The Greater Manchester 5-Year and innovation programmes. Environment Plan sets out the first Ultimately this will be part of a set of actions to reduce carbon across global effort. Greater Manchester’s all sectors of society (residents, universities can play an important communities, businesses, academic role by advancing and disseminating institutions, utility providers and existing expertise in energy distribution, local and national government).

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Mission-orientated projects will be the key component of a wider defined during implementation and Modern Methods of Construction are expected to include the following: and Design for Manufacture and ``Carbon neutral retrofit Assembly centre of excellence and new-build: in the city-region, feeding local employment, skills development ––Greater Manchester will work with and training and supporting a new the UK Green Building Council manufactured homes industry. and other building environment The centre of excellence will professionals in the city-region to coordinate its activities with the test Greater Manchester’s ambition UK Construction Innovation Hub. that all new homes and commercial / industrial buildings should be net ``21st century energy supply: A zero carbon by 2028 - and see particular challenge is the generation whether it can be achieved sooner of renewable energy in Greater (and the intervening steps required Manchester given its established such as the balance between infrastructure and geography, which building efficiency, on-site energy limit opportunities for centralised generation and off-setting measures power generation. Government and for remaining carbon emissions). Greater Manchester will continue to work together to provide the policy, ––Designing innovative finance and legal and financial arrangements delivery mechanisms to retrofit homes to establish the city-region as an and buildings with energy efficiency energy transition region to accelerate and carbon reduction technologies innovative local renewable energy (and thereby reducing fuel bills of generation, storage, and efficiency. local authorities, businesses and This will include a place-based whole residents). This is a key challenge system approach to energy supply with a potential global market as and demand to create a local energy existing technologies are not currently market and setting for integrating commercially viable at scale. existing technologies with trials of ––Developing large-scale modular new ones. This will build on learning construction facilities capable of from the Greater Manchester Local building new homes at the quantity, Energy Market research, funded by pace, and to the environmental UKRI, which is testing the feasibility standards needed to deliver of city-region wide local energy carbon neutral living and meet markets that respond to ‘place-based’ Greater Manchester’s demanding constraints and market needs. new homes pipeline. This will be

56 ``Sustainable and low carbon the implementation of energy and transportation: The Greater material efficiency measures in the Manchester Transport Strategy design and production of products 2040 set out an ambition to reduce and services. This will also support car use to no more than 50 per a reduction in waste and the cent of daily trips by 2040. This eradication of avoidable single use will mean finding ways to create a plastics. The Greater Manchester radical change in behaviour, with a Sustainable Business Partnership million more trips each day using will be key leaders in identifying , cycling and walking, and driving the changes needed. reducing congestion and pollution and The right skills will be essential to increasing safety. The city-region’s delivering the city-region mission strengths in advanced materials for carbon neutral living by 2038. and light-weighting also create the Greater Manchester will prioritise rapid potential to drive new technologies action to provide relevant training, that will reduce emissions from particularly in priority skill gap areas public and private transport. such as whole house deep retrofit. ``Natural capital: Making use of innovative finance, policy and delivery mechanisms to increase natural capital and realise the ecosystem service benefits that go with this (such as health, resilience, air quality and reduced flood risk). ``Clean Growth and Productivity: The shift to carbon neutrality will mean that some firms, particularly those that have carbon intensive operations, will need support to accelerate their progress towards carbon neutrality without constraining growth. Greater Manchester partners will develop a programme to support businesses to accelerate

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Figure 3: Mission Roadmap for Net Zero Carbon Region by 2038

Designed for Greater Manchester Combined Authority by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), with support from the Commission for Mission Oriented Innovation and Industrial Strategy (MOIIS).

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Driving prosperity and leading industrial, social and economic transformation through innovation, partnerships and investment.

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term and cross-overs between strategic aspirations set out in technologies and industries, this Local Industrial Strategy, and coordinate innovation that Greater Manchester will: addresses the Grand Challenges. ``Strengthen the city-region’s ``Drive increased private sector innovation asset base in our investment into R&D and increase Industrial Strategy priority areas the take-up of national innovation of health innovation, advanced funding in Greater Manchester to materials, digital, creative and support the achievement of the media, and clean growth. national 2.4 per cent target. ``Integrate Greater Manchester’s The specific actions identified innovation eco-system to drive in this chapter will contribute commercialisation, facilitate to, and complement, the collaborations, partnerships delivery of these aspirations.

The Prosperity Review found that materials and manufacturing in order Greater Manchester has a strong to drive the growth of innovation and broad innovation base, which is led, high value industries in the city- why innovation – the development region, as well as building Britain’s and deployment of new ideas – is leadership in tomorrow’s technologies. embedded throughout the Greater For example, the city-region’s digital Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. and creative sectors will underpin the Previous sections have set out how emergence of new specialist markets Greater Manchester intends to in Greater Manchester based on the capitalise on internationally recognised design and development of new ideas, scientific and research excellence products and services and in leading in health innovation and advanced the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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The Clean Growth Mission will drive The opportunities identified in this bottom-up innovation, collaborations, Local Industrial Strategy will provide a partnerships and cross-overs between framework for bids by local partners unrelated technologies and industries into the Strength in Places Fund, to develop new technologies and Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds decarbonise our economy. and other national competitive funds (including those delivered Maximising investment in by UKRI), as well as for embedding research and innovation and connections between universities, tackling the Grand Challenges businesses and public bodies. Government has a target for national Central to Greater Manchester’s local investment in R&D to match 2.4 per plans is the development of options cent of GDP by 2027. The Prosperity for the for Research Review showed Greater Manchester in Health, Technology and Innovation. lags behind comparable city-regions in This will be a path-breaking, cross- overall R&D spending, R&D tax-credit disciplinary institute for translational take-up, InnovateUK funding take-up, research, to link clinical research and university R&D spending. To ensure with materials science, informatics, Greater Manchester maximises its engineering and computer science to contribution to this target and increases address major health problems, and overall investment in innovation, it will capitalise on synergies between our be critical to extract maximum value strengths of health and materials plus from both Greater Manchester’s existing digital and biotechnology. It will play a innovation assets, and those under key role in creating exciting start-ups construction, and to continue to invest and high growth businesses in emerging in maintaining world-class excellence sectors. Initial funding for the Centre in our opportunity areas. Synergies has been identified, and the University between Greater Manchester’s of Manchester is now considering areas of strength and the Grand the best way to realise this plan. Challenges must also be exploited, for instance using advanced robotics Reinforcing Greater Manchester’s in biomechanical healthcare or using innovation ecosystem industrial biotechnology to develop low Greater Manchester will continue to carbon fuels. Greater Manchester will reinforce its innovation ecosystem. continue to work with government and This work will be coordinated by the UKRI to maximise the impact of existing Greater Manchester Innovation Board, investments in innovation assets whose membership includes local in the conurbation and incentivise universities, leading innovative firms, private sector investment in R&D. the Medicines Discovery Catapult, Manchester Science Partnerships, public bodies, UKRI, and Nesta.

60 The Board provides the city-region To drive increased private sector with a platform for shared action, investment into R&D, Greater building on Greater Manchester’s Manchester will also test new, integrated governance, deep culture and evaluate existing, routes for of collaboration between government, commercialising knowledge. This business, academia, and health, will include a locally funded pilot and strong partnerships. It will play programme to develop a Cooperative a leading role in coordinating the Intellectual Property (IP) Bank to public and private sector response exploit latent Intellectual Property to the Greater Manchester Local held by research organisations and Industrial Strategy, focused on the large firms by making it available to opportunity areas of health innovation, smaller firms. The IP is attractive to advanced materials, digital, creative smaller firms as it reduces up-front and media, and clean growth. R&D investment costs, shortens time Greater Manchester will also work to market, and creates opportunities to identify and address gaps in the to solve technical challenges or create innovation funding ecosystem in the new market opportunities. Large firms city-region to reduce financial barriers and research organisations will benefit to private sector innovation and from deeper commercialisation of their drive progress towards the national IP portfolio and new IP-led industrial 2.4 per cent target. As a first step, collaboration opportunities with SMEs. Greater Manchester will review the availability of venture capital funding - in partnership with the City of London, financial services firms, and industrial strategy sectors - assessing the current landscape of Early Stage Investment seed funding and Venture Capital Funding in the city-region. This will evaluate missed opportunities to commercialise innovation due to gaps in this section of the financial landscape. This will include an assessment of the case for an early stage investment seed funding programme drawing on private investment and targeted at sub-£500,000 investments.

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People

Investing in a highly skilled and healthy city-region. We will ensure that the education, and employers have access to the skills and employment system allows skills required to deliver the Greater everyone to reach their potential Manchester Local Industrial Strategy.

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``Increase take-up of the technical strategic aspirations set out in qualifications, including this Local Industrial Strategy, apprenticeships, needed to Greater Manchester will: drive the Greater Manchester ``Support institutions to increase Local Industrial Strategy the number of people learning in (particularly at levels 4 and 5). those rated as good or outstanding ``Increase employer investment in – from early years, to schools, workforce development - including colleges and training providers. digital skills, management and ``Give all young people and adults a leadership - and in workforce clear line of sight to opportunities health. It will also ensure that for education, skills development employees are gaining the and work in the city-region. skills to retrain and progress. ``Ensure all residents have the The specific actions identified functional skills and attributes in this chapter will contribute employers need, particularly to, and complement, the English, maths and digital skills; delivery of these aspirations. and enhance creative skills. ``Support adults to enter the labour market and progress in work through connected employment, progression and transition support.

62 In a modern, innovation-led, service- Too few people are realising their rich economy, people are genuinely potential and ill health is a major a city-region’s best asset. Greater economic constraint, keeping people out Manchester has one of the largest and of work and lowering the productivity most diverse populations in the UK. It of those in work. Not enough employers is home to nearly three million people, are utilising their workforce’s full range including more than 100,000 students, of skills or developing their capacity to and there are over seven million people adopt innovations to drive productivity. within an hour’s travel time. The city- Early years provision is key to long- region’s universities have strong and term success for individuals and improving graduate retention rates, the city-region’s future productivity. and it has one of the most linguistically Greater Manchester has an ambition diverse populations in the world, with to increase the proportion of children over 200 languages spoken. One-in- leaving reception with a ‘good level of six residents come from a black and development’ to at least the national minority ethnic background and the average within the next five years. To city-region has the UK’s third largest deliver this, the city-region is rolling LGBT+ community after London and out a new delivery model for early Brighton. This access to skilled labour, years, based around the integration cultural diversity and inclusivity is of public services in neighbourhoods, an inherent strength and provides a bringing together education, health foundation for future growth, generating and housing to address the wider new ideas and making the city-region a social determinants of physical and magnet for new talent and investment. mental health. It is also developing and Rapid progress over upskilling the early years workforce to the past decade help them deliver early intervention, prevention and early education, while The Prosperity Review identified many empowering families and communities strengths in Greater Manchester’s to take greater responsibility in education and skills system. Over the their health and wellbeing. past decade, Greater Manchester has transformed its qualifications profile: Work is also underway to make sure all the proportion of the population young people are work and life ready, with Level 4+ skills increased by with raised aspirations, a clear line of 46 per cent, for example. sight of the opportunities and different education and training pathways However, it is still the case that, available, and the attributes and soft despite good progress in recent years, skills to help them flourish and prosper. we want more people to have the qualifications and functional skills employers need and that provide the foundations to progress in work.

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Greater Manchester is already locally tailored support to help long- investing in: free bus travel for 16- term unemployed residents get 18 year olds and the development back into the labour market, and of an Opportunity Pass (subject to supports people at risk of falling out Combined Authority agreement); the of employment. Greater Manchester Bridge GM programme that connects also has a vital and unique relationship schools, students and employers; with Health Education England (HEE), a UCAS-style Career Platform that which underpins joint commissioning will simplify access to education, and allocation of HEE budgets, where learning and training; and creating a appropriate, to pilot new models to Curriculum for Life. Government is address the skills requirements of the already working differently in the city- region’s health and care system. region, such as through the Digital To help more people over-50 get back Skills Pilot, Self-Employment Pilot, into employment, Greater Manchester, Future Workforce Fund and through the the Department for Work and Pensions, Oldham Opportunity Area. The latter, and the Centre for Ageing Better is focusing on improving early literacy are exploring a new approach to at home; building high performance employability support using a ‘test-and- across the school system; and learn’ approach. This will be used to boosting support for mental health. inform the national and local evidence To improve outcomes for adults, base about what works. Government and Greater Manchester has established Greater Manchester are also working an Employment and Skills Advisory together to support the development Panel as announced in the national of the National Retraining Scheme Industrial Strategy. This Panel brings through the development of the Greater colleges, training providers, local and Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. national government, and employers together to identify local skills needs. Towards deeper partnership Through the adult education budget, There is great potential in the education, Greater Manchester and government skills and work system. Government are already collaborating to develop and Greater Manchester have agreed strategic responses to economic to work in partnership to determine and technological change. The joint how this can be harnessed. The aim development and delivery of the is to ensure the education, skills and Working Well employment support work system can support everyone programme (that pooled funding in the city-region to reach their from Greater Manchester’s 10 local potential, and for employers to have authorities, 10 Clinical Commissioning access to the skills needed to deliver Groups, local Job Centre Plus districts, the ambition set out in the Greater and the Greater Manchester Health Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. and Social Care Partnership) provides

64 All parties have agreed to work together Some early areas where there is to explore opportunities to connect potential for great results are: ensuring national and local post-16 skills and work greater businesses engagement in the policies in the city-region to deliver whole system from careers to in-work an effective offer for the near-three progression; supporting institutions million citizens of Greater Manchester. with their efforts to raise quality and This will include using Greater therefore help more young people Manchester’s convening power, to benefit from good or outstanding with government support, to learning; identifying what more can issue a call to action for schools, be done at a national and local level providers and employers in the city- to support those in work on low pay region to work together to bring to progress in work and out of in-work about the changes needed. poverty; supporting employers to retain older workers and those with health Through this joint partnership working, problems; and finally supporting more we will identify strategic and delivery high quality apprenticeship opportunities areas for review and, based on evidence with SMEs, securing employer and advice, identify the respective commitments to provide high quality T actions needed from all parties to Level industry placements, and boosting deliver them. We want to make quick employer investment in retraining. progress, but all parties recognise, and accept, that this will require their Within nine months, Greater Manchester, commitment for the long term. the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions As a starting point on that journey will set out to the GMCA and DfE and the Department for Education, the DWP Secretaries of State the respective Department for Work and Pensions and actions, both in the short and longer Greater Manchester have agreed to term, which all parties will agree to identify the ways in which their priorities take forward and will move the joint and activities across the various parts working between Greater Manchester of the post-16 skills and work system and government to the next stage. come together and, based on evidence and consultation with the sector, have This deeper partnership will build on agreed to take forward actions to the strong track record of successful help ensure the system is effective. partnership working on the skills and work agenda that already exists between Greater Manchester and government.

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This includes: ``the Greater Manchester Model of ``the Employment and Skills Advisory Unified Public Services sets out Panel, which brings colleges, an approach to aligning services training providers, local and national around people and place; government, and employers together ``the Greater Manchester Reform to identify and respond to skills needs; Investment Fund provides a unified ``the joint development and delivery city-region fund to use alongside local of the Working Well employment funding to drive improvements in support programme that pooled health, housing, skills and education, funding from Greater Manchester’s crime and prevention services in 10 local authorities, 10 Clinical tandem and at greater pace; Commissioning Groups, local Job ``that Working Well continues to reduce Centre Plus districts, and Health worklessness and improve well-being and Social Care Partnership; by supporting more people with ``the vital and unique relationship poor health and disabilities to play between Health Education England an active and fulfilling role in the (HEE) and Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester labour market. which underpins joint commissioning and decision-making, including the allocation of HEE budgets where appropriate to pilot new models for addressing the requirements of the region’s health and care system. Greater Manchester will also align skills and work activity with health and care and other public services, in line with the recommendations of the Prosperity Review, recognising the links between good physical and mental health, employment and productivity. It is already ensuring: ``the Health and Social Care Prospectus contains actions to create a sustainable health and care system that realises economic potential in the city-region;

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Infrastructure

Upgraded, integrated and future-proofed. Greater Manchester will put in place the and inclusive growth, and to facilitate integrated 21st century infrastructure international trade and investment. needed for digitally connected, clean

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term global ‘Gateway to the North’ strategic aspirations set out in through the Manchester Airport this Local Industrial Strategy, Transformation Programme5, and Greater Manchester will: work through Transport for the ``Develop an Infrastructure Plan North to deliver the growth case for the city-region and identify for Northern Powerhouse Rail. sources of sustainable, long-term ``Develop a roadmap for local investment, to sit alongside digital-led innovations that devolved funding streams, to enable better coordination fund the delivery of the Plan. of the transport system. ``Short-term action to improve ``Continue transforming the transport system performance digital connectivity of the city- through rail devolution, bus reform, region to drive economic growth trialling tram-trains, continuing to and innovation, working with expand the city-region’s walking government to meet national and cycling infrastructure, and targets of nationwide full fibre changing regulations to promote coverage by 2033 and full a cleaner, more efficient and roll-out of 5G technologies integrated transport system. for most people by 2027. ``Radically improve connectivity The specific actions identified with other UK cities through High in this chapter will contribute Speed 2, continue developing to, and complement, the Greater Manchester as the delivery of these aspirations.

68 Transformative approaches point the way to achieving modernised, The Prosperity Review concluded that carbon neutral infrastructure. However, Greater Manchester’s future growth, there are challenges that Greater prosperity and sustainability will be Manchester must address to achieve restricted unless ambitious and long the modernised, carbon neutral 21st term infrastructure solutions are found. century infrastructure needed to deliver The growth potential set out in the draft this Local Industrial Strategy. These Greater Manchester Spatial Framework are set out in the Greater Manchester will require large-scale, integrated and Infrastructure Framework. They include strategic infrastructure investment. new demands for electricity generation, This will build on recent investments by storage and transmission coming from Greater Manchester and government, changes in how buildings are heated, including in the Metrolink and the energy is stored, and transport systems Bee Network supported by Greater and vehicles are fuelled. Climate change Manchester’s £312.5m allocation from will demand more resilience to flooding the Transforming Cities Fund. These and greater ‘eco-system services’ are innovative programmes which from green and blue infrastructure.

Figure 4: Transport investments are driving change

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70 Universal, affordable and resilient Integrating Greater digital connectivity and better social Manchester’s infrastructure infrastructure will be essential for To build the integrated 21st century driving inclusive growth across the infrastructure that Greater Manchester growing city-region. Congestion is needs, a comprehensive infrastructure already providing persistent pressures plan for the city-region is required. This and drags on productivity, leading to needs to meet both local and national carbon emissions and air pollution. priorities, developed in consultation The transport system will need to with government and infrastructure address this problem at the same providers, and underpinned by a time as accommodating a growing consensus to propel its delivery and population and providing affordable success. To secure this agreement, and flexible responses to the shifts government will join the Greater in the major sites of employment, Manchester Strategic Infrastructure working patterns and school and Board overseeing implementation of college provision that means people national and local plans and providing are travelling further and at different operational expertise to improve times. To meet Greater Manchester’s the performance of the city-region’s ambitions for an innovation-driven transport, housing, energy and digital economy, industries will need the best infrastructure. Implementation Plans digital and physical connectivity. Areas will take into account how infrastructure with lower productivity, pay and living development can contribute to the standards need infrastructure that delivery of the full Greater Manchester supports access to jobs in the centre Local Industrial Strategy. For example, but will also help improve the quality linking to relevant outputs from the of local opportunities in the long term. Clean Growth Mission, which will New trading routes after the UK leaves provide new technologies and models the will place greater for low carbon infrastructure. It will importance on Greater Manchester’s also be critical that reforms of the international transport infrastructure education and skills system set out and east-west connections including above will ensure a local pipeline the links to the Port of Liverpool, of talent is in place to support the the development of design and implementation of and the ongoing national strategic infrastructure programmes, and that importance of Manchester Airport. new innovations like modular housing can be delivered at scale and pace.

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Greater Manchester has a successful Short-term action is needed to address track record of delivering significant congestion and increase productivity investment programmes, including and employment growth. The next the Transport Fund; the portfolio stage of Greater Manchester’s 2040 of housing, infrastructure, and Transport Strategy (2020-2025) business investment funds agreed includes a further 65 projects including through devolution deals; and continued Metrolink expansion, new public service programmes like interchanges and ongoing investment the Working Well programme. in the city-region’s innovative Bee However, delivering truly integrated Network of active travel corridors 21st century infrastructure will require and junctions to encourage cycling further institutional development and walking in the city-region, funded to build on the already robust through the Transforming Cities governance, capacity and assurance Fund. Specific opportunities to tackle processes in place in the city-region. congestion include trialling tram- Greater Manchester will therefore trains in the city-region, increasing review its institutions, structures and the pace of improving rail and processes to ensure the city-region bus service quality, reliability and can continue to deliver successful integration through ongoing devolution integrated infrastructure programmes. and reform, and improvements to existing TransPennine rail services. The city-region will need appropriate and innovative investment and delivery The completion of the full Northern models to deliver the scale and range Hub programme and the Transport of investments needed, which do for the North Northern Powerhouse not currently exist. The Prosperity Rail programme would transform Review agreed with the National rail infrastructure, improving service Infrastructure Assessment that an patterns, frequency and capacity integrated strategy for infrastructure between key economic centres of at city-region level should be backed the north, particularly east-west up by stable, substantial, devolved connections. An Integrated and Smart funding. Greater Manchester will Travel programme is streamlining consequently explore options for journey planning and payment. achieving sustainable, long-term local investment into infrastructure.

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Manchester Airport is the global development of Port Salford will gateway to the north of England. establish the city-region as a modern It serves more destinations than UK port, and link to new international any other UK airport (over 200), trading routes. The arrival of High facilitating trade and the cultural Speed 2 and improved Northern and visitor economies. The city- Powerhouse links will strengthen region’s rail and road networks create inter-city connections across the UK. fast national connections, and the

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Building on the powers already alongside new data sharing agreements devolved to the Greater Manchester and platforms. Greater Manchester Mayor, Greater Manchester will is building the foundations for a continue working with government to digital mobility ecosystem by: testing improve the performance of Greater and assessing new technologies like Manchester’s transport system through Connected and Autonomous Vehicles; implementation of existing devolution integrating transport infrastructure deals including greater local influence with the ‘Internet of Things’; and over rail services and stations, bus adopting new models of integrated and reform, trialling tram-trains, and flexible on-demand transport provision: regulatory reforms that complement namely of Mobility as a Service. the shift to cycling and walking, in the Transport for Greater Manchester context of the Williams Rail Review. has built considerable knowledge and To increase network capacity, widen expertise in this field, pioneering proof labour pools and business access to of concept and significant research markets across the UK cities, Greater programmes, and working with Manchester will work to deliver the businesses in this emerging market. growth cases for High Speed 2, and To identify the necessary locally through Transport for the North the led changes needed to drive and business case for Northern Powerhouse shape innovation-led transport Rail and improvements to Manchester- improvements, Greater Manchester road links. Enhanced and government will develop a connectivity will help Manchester programme of activity for transport Airport to fully utilise its capacity (55 innovation to explore new ideas and million passengers per annum), open bring together relevant stakeholders to up new routes and increase services collaborate with Transport for Greater to key growth markets in line with Manchester. This will increase Greater the national Aviation Strategy. Manchester’s ability to improve the transport system as a whole, and The Future of Mobility in to inform policy-making. Transport Greater Manchester for Greater Manchester and the The Prosperity Review recommended government’s Future of Mobility new digital-led transport innovation – team will work together to bring including as part of the government’s together the right set of stakeholders Future of Mobility Grand Challenge and private and local investors for – to improve services at less cost. transport innovations, exploring This needs policy and technology co- new technologies and governance ordination to maintain overall system models, and potentially trialling performance, embed policy objectives them in Greater Manchester. like clean air, improved health and social inclusion; and to create public trust,

74 Transport for Greater Manchester This approach is accelerating market and government will consider how investment and will continue to do so best to trial emerging technologies with the city-region’s ambition to attract and services where the regulatory private sector investment of over framework is not yet fixed. This £200m, create further opportunities to whole systems approach and regulatory develop 5G networks and test beds, and “sandbox” will support the Future capitalise on over 500,000 mapped of Mobility and Clean Growth Grand street furniture items that have the Challenges by creating a blueprint for potential to provide high bandwidth, low the integrated, low carbon transport latency 5G networks. Local Full Fibre systems of the future, whilst building Networks (LFFN) funding will connect on digital infrastructure, industry over 1,300 public sector sites and will strengths and Greater Manchester’s have a transformational impact on approach to integrated public policy. digital infrastructure - increasing full fibre coverage from two per cent to Digital infrastructure for around 25 per cent within three years. a leading city-region Greater Manchester is continuing To enable these changes to the to facilitate further commercial transport system and deliver all the investment by reducing the cost of aspirations in this Local Industrial works through granting of wayleaves, Strategy, Greater Manchester will aim surface reconstitution, and harmonising to become one of the best digitally regulatory processes across all 10 connected city-regions in the UK. . Greater Manchester will Digital infrastructure is integrated continue to work with government to within the new Greater Manchester meet national targets of nationwide Infrastructure Framework and the full fibre coverage by 2033 and remit of the Infrastructure Advisory roll-out of 5G technologies for the Board, and Greater Manchester has majority of the population by 2027. the most significant city-region digital connectivity investment programme in the UK. The city-region is investing over £100m in digital initiatives, transformative data life cycle management, cyber security, health digitisation, better data governance and analytical capabilities. This includes £23.8m contributed by government to digital infrastructure development and almost £39m is already committed to investing in ‘Full Fibre’.

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Business environment

Supporting highly productive, innovative and international enterprise. The productivity of businesses in innovation commercialisation, adoption Greater Manchester will be radically and diffusion, and raising levels of improved by strengthening their exports, foreign direct investment leadership and management, increasing (FDI) and inward investment.

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``Sustain and develop the strong strategic aspirations set out in business support infrastructure, this Local Industrial Strategy, based around the Business Growth Greater Manchester, will: Hub, by further strengthening ``Strengthen the leadership support to drive innovation and management capacity of (including business model businesses and enterprise in innovation), productivity, workforce Greater Manchester to increase development and scaling up productivity and skills utilisation. businesses in key sectors. ``Implement a Greater Manchester ``Drive further internationalisation Good Employment Charter to of Greater Manchester’s business improve skills utilisation and and enterprise base, supporting management standards and so exports, inward investment, and raise productivity across all sectors. international partnerships. ``Support all business and The specific actions identified enterprise to adopt innovations in this chapter will contribute and create new products, to, and complement, the services and business models. delivery of those aspirations.

76 Greater Manchester’s The Greater Manchester businesses business base that export are also the most The Prosperity Review highlighted productive, and are mainly in the the diversity of Greater Manchester’s manufacturing, digital and creative business base and the sophisticated mix industries. However, in 2017 the of industries and supply chains in the city-region exported less than half city-region that creates multiple growth the level of goods than would be opportunities and diversification routes expected for its size, despite strong for business. The Review confirmed performance in manufacturing exports. that Greater Manchester is a significant and growing UK international trading hub, and this is creating dividends for the economy in terms of strong FDI and the presence of highly productive foreign-owned firms in the city-region. International partnerships in the city-region span from IT giant Tech Mahindra’s Salford HQ and innovation lab to the work of University of Manchester scientists at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Greater Manchester has a very strong track-record in attracting Foreign Direct Investment, and has invested in developing international partnerships to drive forward the city-region’s priorities, including the Manchester-China Forum and the Manchester-India Partnership. This has made the city-region an international centre for business, and developed a nationally significant set of relationships and assets.

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78 Business support skills, diversity and business models, Greater Manchester has an extensive and addressing low export rates, and mature network of business poor skills utilisation, and low levels of advice services, centred around the innovation adoption amongst firms. Business Growth Hub. This community Improving business productivity includes the Manufacturing Champions Network, private partners and business To improve productivity, there must be membership bodies including the a higher take-up of innovation across Chamber of Commerce, the Federation the business base, from adopting of Small Businesses and the Forum new internal processes, to developing of Private Business. Businesses have new products, services and business access to private equity, including models and finding applications for new Venture Capital and Business Angels, scientific discoveries. Businesses will and benefit from the services and be supported to link to networks for advice of a strong financial and knowledge and best practice exchange professional service sector alongside between peers, and clearly signposted Enterprise Zones and incubator and to the available finance (including accelerator spaces across the region. tax credits), support and advice. The Growth Hub hosts Innovate UK Government and Greater Manchester and the Enterprise Europe Network have already made significant (EEN) resources that connect local, investments in the Growth Hub, national and international innovation making it the largest in the country. networks, and takes part in the Interreg The Growth Hub and Greater North West Europe Programme as Manchester partners will better part of transnational consortia. The coordinate existing business support British Business Bank and Department programmes for increasing innovation for International Trade have set and productivity, leadership and up Greater Manchester offices to management, and supporting scale- support initiatives like the Northern ups to internationalise, as well as Powerhouse Investment Fund. the wider business support offer However, business density levels are available. Work will focus on enabling below the national average and, while more local businesses to access there are highly productive firms in this support, and providing more every sector, there is a long tail of less targeted support including one-to- productive firms in the city-region one advice, mentoring and peer-to- – and productivity within sectors peer programmes. Programmes will differs more than between sectors. drive up leadership and management capacity to increase skills utilisation and The Prosperity Review suggests the innovation, and improve productivity. causes of this need to be addressed by improving leadership, management

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Greater Manchester will also entrepreneurs, academics and continue to rationalise regulation researchers and companies coming services to make access to advice into Greater Manchester, and in the and support simpler and easier for partner cities, such as Bangalore, India, business, particularly regulations to provide similar soft landing bases relating to innovation and exports. for Greater Manchester’s high-growth To reinforce Greater Manchester’s scale-up companies and universities. increasing contribution to UK soft This will build on Greater Manchester’s power, existing global partnerships Global Scale-up Programme which and approach to business (such as will take Greater Manchester’s most Manchester-India Partnership and exciting businesses and give them Manchester-China Forum), and to access to strategic international growth build on the focus provided by this advice and coaching from partners, Local Industrial Strategy, Greater supporting them to scale up and Manchester will launch a ‘Global grow into new markets, export and Prosperity Partnership Model’, to internationalise their business strategy. be promoted by the Department Greater Manchester’s Global Prosperity for International Trade. This model Partnership Model will aim to grow high will create city-to-city partnerships value city-to-city trade and technology to build deep two-way relationships or IP exchange, and attract inward between cities, and strategic investment, visitors and global talent, partners therein, in key markets and support exporters and high growth and sectors through programmes companies to scale operations globally on entrepreneurship, technology, IP as well as attracting high value inward exchange and collaborative R&D. investors and research investment. The These thematic elements will give programme will also include a focus Greater Manchester and the UK useful on attracting major global events, in insights into emerging technologies alignment with the Greater Manchester and innovations in overseas markets, Convention Bureau, and leveraging such as green transport infrastructure the talents of the international advancements in China, to help student base in the city-region. accelerate commercial application in the UK. A balanced exchange that Supporting all workers encourages the development of pilot Through programmes like ‘Be the zones and initiatives to encourage Business’, ‘Made Smarter’, executive researcher collaborations and development programmes provided commercial spin-offs will underpin by the Business Growth Hub, and meaningful city-to-city collaboration. the Greater Manchester Productivity and Inclusive Growth Programme, To foster these partnerships, Greater Greater Manchester and government Manchester will create a “soft are supporting businesses to improve landing” platform for international their leadership and management

80 capacity, as well as their efficiency and better career prospects and leadership effectiveness. The Greater Manchester training, skills and development. Good Employment Charter, which is As these sectors face many of the being developed and implemented same challenges across the country, with employers and employees, will be Greater Manchester’s leadership will another key lever for raising leadership provide lessons for other areas. and management amongst Greater The city-region is the home of the Manchester’s employers, improving Cooperative Movement and has productivity, wages, and job quality in all a strong history of innovation in sectors, particularly those that have not business models and integrating traditionally engaged with public sector social values with enterprise and funded business advice. The Charter economic activity. Greater Manchester will also improve skills utilisation, raise has a strong embedded social value employment standards and encourage procurement policy, which is being employers to focus on the health updated to reflect Local Industrial and well-being of their workforce. It Strategy objectives, including those will use a tiered structure, backed up relating to the foundational economy. with support for employers, engaging A significant proportion of Greater a wide range of businesses, social Manchester’s social enterprises work enterprises, public service providers in the foundational economy sectors and voluntary and community sector of health, community development, organisations to help them progress to education and training, sport and higher standards. Greater Manchester leisure services. Greater Manchester will also work with local universities will continue to create the optimum to maximise the local impact of their conditions for Social Enterprises excellent leadership and management to thrive and grow productive and training and development offer. valuable careers, products and Greater Manchester will also develop services, including support and advice a plan for increasing the productivity on development and innovation. The of big sectors in the ‘foundational Business Growth Hub, itself a social economy’ – such as retail, hospitality enterprise, will provide a range of and tourism, and social care. Greater services from growth support, access Manchester will work with large to finance, specialist sector advice and employers in these sectors to help leadership and workforce development, understand progression routes and to cooperatives and social enterprises skills gaps to inform the work of the who are seeking growth. The skills partnership and help businesses forthcoming Greater Manchester Social develop plans to access new workers or Enterprise Strategy being developed tap unused skills among their existing by the sector will set out how the workforce. Greater Manchester will sector can support the implementation continue to support the adult social of this Local Industrial Strategy and care workforce, developing new roles, promote good jobs, and innovation.

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Sector deals

Government has agreed a series Roche is investing an additional of sector deals that affect the £30m in the UK, including £20m Greater Manchester economy. over three years into a precision The Life Sciences Sector Deals aim cancer research partnership with to ensure pioneering treatments and The Christie in Manchester, making medical technologies are produced the UK a leading global hub for rare in the UK to improve patients’ lives cancer trials and potentially benefiting and drive economic growth by nearly 5,000 patients annually. coordinating substantial investment Greater Manchester has the from government, private and largest digital and creative sector charitable sectors. Investments include outside London. National assets The Medicines Company big data based in the city-region include project with the Greater Manchester Salford’s MediaCityUK and The Health and Social Care Partnership, Factory. Innovation and creativity to improve the understanding, are synonymous with culture and a management and economics of Greater Manchester Culture Strategy cardiovascular disease. QIAGEN, a is being developed to create the leading provider of molecular testing conditions for creativity to flourish solutions is partnering with Health in every part of the city-region, Innovation Manchester to develop a enriching the lives of all residents genomics and diagnostics campus. and protecting, diversifying and IQVIA Ltd is investing in a Northern growing Greater Manchester’s unique Prime Site with NHS research-ready culture, heritage strengths, assets hospitals in Greater Manchester, Leeds and ecology. Government and the and Sheffield to use data-enabled creative industries sector, through approaches to design and deliver the Creative Industries Council, have hundreds of additional clinical trials agreed a Creative Industries Sector and real-world evidence studies. Deal that includes a range of activity to boost creative sector growth which Greater Manchester will benefit from.

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This includes the location of a Greater Manchester has R&D regional hub of Tech Nation, which strengths in nuclear energy. The supports digital companies and Nuclear Sector Deal sets out a vision start-ups, in Greater Manchester; for the nuclear industry to 2030 and successful projects as part of the proposals for government, sector £33m Audience of the Future and joint action to deliver this vision. Challenge, via the Industrial Strategy The research institutes and Challenge Fund, and a £4m Creative manufacturing companies in Greater Scale Up programme to support Manchester include key aerospace creative firms in three English regions specialisms and form part of the including Greater Manchester. north west manufacturing cluster. The Greater Manchester is the third Aerospace Sector Deal positions most visited UK city by international the UK to take advantage of the visitors, behind only London and global move towards hybrid electric Edinburgh. This includes a significant and electric propulsion and to exploit volume of business tourists attending valuable emerging markets such as conferences and events in the drones and Urban Air Mobility. It sets city-region. Our sporting assets – out proposals for a UK Aerospace especially our leading football clubs Research Consortium, which includes – are a key driver of visitor numbers the University of Manchester; a to the city-region. The hospitality, new supply chain competitiveness tourism and sport sector employs programme; export champions; a approximately 110,000 people in future flight challenge; and support just under 10,000 businesses and for engineering apprenticeships. provided £2.9bn GVA in 2016. Greater Manchester and government are working with businesses locally and across the UK to examine options for a Tourism Sector Deal. This will aim to address issues around job quality and seasonality of work, as well as supporting the development of a 10-year Visitor Economy Strategy.

83 Places

Cultivating prosperous cities, towns and communities across the city-region. All parts of Greater Manchester will be The town centres across the city-region supported to realise their full potential, are important hubs for employment, cementing Greater Manchester’s housing and transport. The community role in rebalancing the UK economy and voluntary sector make vital and reducing regional disparities. contributions to Greater Manchester’s Greater Manchester has many social, environmental and economic place-based strengths: from the wellbeing. But the Prosperity Review dynamic , to the creative highlighted that not all parts of Greater cluster around the Quays and the Manchester have benefited from the concentration of research excellence growth experienced over the past on the Oxford Road Corridor, to decade, and access to employment, the industrial hubs in Trafford Park, opportunity and other assets is unequal. Rochdale, Wigan, and Bolton.

Greater Manchester’s strategic priorities

To help realise the long-term ``Reduce inequalities, promote strategic aspirations set out in diversity and improve prosperity by this Local Industrial Strategy, addressing barriers to participating Greater Manchester will: in employment and accessing ``Ensure a thriving and productive opportunities across the city-region. economy in all parts of Greater ``Building on city, growth and Manchester, by maximising national devolution deals and continue and international assets, city and reforming public services to town centres, strategic employment ensure local public services are locations and neighbourhoods. focused on improving outcomes and reducing inequalities. The specific actions identified in this chapter will contribute to, and complement, the delivery of those aspirations.

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Delivering the ambitions of this . This area includes key Local Industrial Strategy requires clusters of growth sectors, including all parts of the city-region to the Salford Innovation Triangle which realise their full potential. is emerging as a key site of research Through the implementation of this and innovation, and provides an Local Industrial Strategy, Greater enormous and extremely diverse Manchester will seek to strengthen range of businesses and jobs, which economic areas across the city-region currently accounts for around one- based on their unique opportunities quarter of employment in Greater and challenges, building on the Manchester and is expected to grow. diversity of its people and places. ``Manchester Airport Enterprise Zone, The draft Greater Manchester Spatial with the expansion of the airport Framework clearly sets out the key as the UK’s primary international locations that will be prioritised to gateway outside London and the drive inclusive economic growth: South East, providing easy business ``The expanding city centre, which connectivity across the world, and will further strengthen as the most increased employment activity significant economic location in around the airport site, the UK outside London, providing Hospital, and rail connections. a concentration of jobs that are ``The eight main town centres readily accessible from across (, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester and beyond. Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, The city centre includes the Oxford Stockport and Wigan), which Road Corridor which is continuing will be supported to provide a to develop as a world-class stronger focus for local economic innovation hub with a very high activity by exploiting important concentration of research activity advantages such as the direct and enhanced business connections. mainline rail links to London from ``The Quays, which is expected Stockport and Wigan, High Speed to deliver sustained growth as a 2 and the university in Bolton. major business location including ``Port Salford, providing sustainable an internationally important freight connections by water and digital and creative cluster. rail and acting as an international ``The wider area of economic activity gateway via upgraded facilities at the heart of Greater Manchester, at the Port of Liverpool. stretching from the in the east, through the city centre and The Quays, to Trafford Park and the

86 ``The M62 North East Corridor, Manchester, and will complement including the proposed development the M62 North-East Corridor to of ‘Advanced Materials City’ to ensure that there are significant accelerate opportunities in Greater investment opportunities across the Manchester’s advanced materials northern areas, helping to boost the manufacturing base and provide a competitiveness of all parts of the physical home for the market for 2D north. The Wigan-Bolton Growth materials, which will see a massive Corridor proposals are smaller in scale expansion of the existing employment than the M62 North-East Corridor, areas forming a major facility similar but are nevertheless important in in size to Trafford Park. This will help supporting long-term economic to deliver a better distribution of prosperity. The M6 logistics hub in growth across Greater Manchester Wigan (extending into , St and boosting the economy of the Helens and West ) provides northern part of the city-region. a major cluster of warehousing and ``The Wigan-Bolton Growth Corridor is distribution activity with easy access located in the north-west of Greater to the Port of Liverpool via the M58.

Figure 6: Strategic locations

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The complexity analysis undertaken for In some cases, to create the conditions the Prosperity Review demonstrates for private sector investment and opportunities to develop higher value growth, it will be necessary to tackle industries across all districts of Greater the excessive costs of bringing Manchester, if the right networks and brownfield sites back into use and to mix of policy interventions are in place. raise the quality and attractiveness Existing and new businesses will be of urban environments and town supported to raise productivity and job centres. Greater Manchester will take quality, and Greater Manchester will act an integrated place-based approach to to stimulate new growth opportunities bringing forward strategic regeneration in underperforming areas. Each part proposals in town centres and strategic of Greater Manchester and each sites, which integrate investment in industry sector will need a different land remediation, housing, transport mix of policy interventions to realise and other infrastructure to create their full potential, which could include sustainable employment locations. investment in infrastructure, skills, A key element of this will be to develop business support, design and marketing, and support the unique culture and or specialist incubator spaces and heritage of the city-region, improving premises. Each Greater Manchester desirability and the quality of place local authority has committed to setting to attract and retain talent and out how the key issues identified in the investment, especially in town and Greater Manchester Local Industrial city centres. Where appropriate, Strategy interlink with opportunities this will align with and build on the and barriers in their locality, and to Greater Manchester Town Centre develop action plans to coordinate Challenge and the use of Mayoral Greater Manchester and district level Development Corporations. implementation and to deliver real change in all parts of the city-region.

88 But prosperous places are not just Key to this is integrating public about employment sites and local services, so that they can be tailored jobs. The Prosperity Review is clear to the unique circumstances of an that, for parts of Greater Manchester individual and place, and so priorities with lower productivity, pay and living like improving skills and increasing standards, there needs to be both innovation are embedded and reflected better jobs across the city-region in public services to find new place- and better access to jobs. Greater based ways to approach industrial Manchester will continue to deliver strategy. Greater Manchester will the Transforming Cities Fund in ways continue to build on the City and that support the ambitions in this Growth Deals and the devolution of strategy and underpin continued and powers and resources to the city-region inclusive growth. Improvements to the to reform and redesign public services. transport system are clearly key to The Greater Manchester Model enabling access to jobs in the centre, of Unified Public Services is the but so too is addressing non-transport framework through which the city- barriers to economic participation, region will ensure that all public services particularly around low skills and ill are focused on improving outcomes health. Interventions to improve skills, and reducing inequalities. Greater work and health interventions will be Manchester will continue to implement coordinated to reduce inequalities and and review the city-region’s emerging improve outcomes for residents. public service reform model, supported by existing innovation funding and other local funding streams.

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Using evidence to identify potential opportunities

The University of Cambridge has advantageous in informing growth undertaken pioneering analysis to and capability upgrading. This identify new industrial opportunities analysis, undertaken for each Greater based on what an area is currently Manchester district, uses data on the good at and, crucially, where they current industry profile and skills mix, have potential to move to higher and uses this to identify possibilities product complexity, as this could be to broaden into new specialisms.

Manchester

As an illustration for how this advertising, management consulting analysis could be used, the plot and computer programming. Not for Manchester shows ‘related’ only are these specialisms well- opportunities for the city in market aligned to Manchester’s current research and public opinion polling, industrial strengths, they also have trusts and fund management higher product complexity, which activities, and motion pictures, video is potentially positive for earnings and television, that complement the and growth performance. local authority’s existing strengths in

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The plot for Stockport shows that, with a high product complexity owing to its different set of existing and also some with a low product capabilities, it has a number of complexity, such as pre-primary ‘related’ opportunities including education, landscape services, management consulting, software and residential care activities. publishing and head-office activities

Stockport

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Implementation

A place-based approach has been used to develop the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy, and it is designed to be implemented in the same way: capitalising on strengths and opportunities and recognising the barriers to growth and prosperity that parts of the conurbation face. This section sets out the overarching ``achievement of carbon neutrality in framework for implementing the a way that improves quality of life for strategy to ensure it delivers for residents, minimises the productivity the whole of Greater Manchester. impact on current businesses and maximises commercial opportunities Shared outcomes across Greater Manchester; As well as setting out specific actions, recognition as one of the top this Local Industrial Strategy also sets `` five city-regions for the digital out Greater Manchester’s long-term economy in Europe, with full fibre aspirations and the specific outcomes broadband and 5G coverage; local partners are aiming to achieve. These will help guide future action and ``a city-region skills and work evaluate progress. By 2040, Greater system that enables people to Manchester will aim to have secured: realise their potential, supports emerging industries, and is ``increased productivity and pay across responsive to employers; and sectors, particularly where they are currently behind national averages, ``a coordinated infrastructure system, driven by businesses which are well with a transport network that led and managed, innovative and provides clean and effective intra- trading and investing globally; GM commuting and leveraging connections throughout the UK: ``a greater number of high-quality north-south (HS2) and throughout manufacturing opportunities in strategic the Northern Powerhouse. sites across the city-region, giving a more productive manufacturing base close to Successful implementation will require transport links and population centres; the coordinated efforts of local and national government, as well as a broad ``a fully integrated and digitalised set of stakeholders including private health and care system, creating and business and social enterprise, public adopting the latest in preventative services, universities, and community and assistive health technology, and and voluntary organisations. helping people stay in the labour market and stay productive for longer;

92 This is a challenge, but it is also a The civic authorities, business great opportunity. Coordinating the stakeholders and people across implementation of cross-departmental all sectors, from transport and policies in a place, and aligning those architecture to digital applications and with local priorities and actions, service design, will collaborate through will enable us to deliver increased a range of mechanisms to ensure prosperity and productivity more optimal use of skills, processes and efficiently and effectively for Greater thinking to deliver successful outcomes Manchester’s people and places. for the whole of Greater Manchester. Success will also depend on how The government will continue to responses and solutions, products and support the Greater Manchester services are designed at all levels of Local Industrial Strategy through implementation, from integrated public implementation of Greater Manchester’s services to bringing new products to devolution deal, and improved market and digital transformation. partnership as set out in this strategy.

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The Local Enterprise Partnership Senior To demonstrate progress towards Sponsor will champion implementation the long-term vision set out by this of the Local Industrial Strategy in Local Industrial Strategy, the Strategy Whitehall on an ongoing basis. contains a number of specific actions. Greater Manchester will develop an Where these actions are locally led, Implementation Plan setting out clear these will be drawn from local budgets milestones, deliverables, and timings which exist for those purposes; where for the actions set out in this strategy. actions are shared between Greater An annual review of progress will be Manchester and government, they produced, that will be reviewed at a will be funded from existing local and meeting of a government and Greater departmental budgets, with funding Manchester Implementation Board, allocated for those specific purposes. made up of senior officials from across This strategy does not represent all the government and Greater Manchester. priorities and action being developed At a regional level, the Greater in Greater Manchester. As detailed in Manchester Local Industrial Strategy this Strategy, Greater Manchester will will inform, and be aligned with, the regularly review the latest evidence to government’s Northern Powerhouse continue designing the most effective Strategy, which is due to be refreshed approaches and interventions to in 2019. Greater Manchester will be at the forefront of the future UK continue to engage with partners economy. This Strategy sets out long- in the north, including other Local term ambitions and will continue to Enterprise Partnerships and Mayoral evolve as the economy changes. Combined Authorities creating Within Greater Manchester, the Local Industrial Strategies, to take implementation of this Local forward shared priorities in line with Industrial Strategy will be brought this Local Industrial Strategy. into the Greater Manchester Strategy This Local Industrial Strategy does not Implementation and Performance include any new spending commitments Management framework, ensuring outside of existing budgets. Instead, that the delivery of the Local Industrial it will inform the strategic use of Strategy is coordinated with other local funding streams and, where actions. This will ensure alignment with relevant, spending and decisions at the key related plans, including the draft national level. It will also help Greater Greater Manchester Spatial Framework, Manchester decide on its approach Public Services White Paper, Health to maximising the long-term impact and Social Care Prospectus, and of the new UK Shared Prosperity 2040 Transport Delivery Plan. Fund once its details and priorities are announced at Spending Review.

94 In line with the national Local Enterprise ``An independent overarching process Partnership Assurance Framework, the and impact evaluation will be put Greater Manchester Local Enterprise in place to assess the efficacy of Partnership will produce an annual government and Greater Manchester delivery plan and a qualitative end- in delivering against the objectives of-year report to evaluate how the set out in this strategy. Results will Local Enterprise Partnership and other be reported annually to both Greater partners have contributed towards Manchester and government. A achieving Industrial Strategy objectives. three-year review will be undertaken in April 2022 on the quantitative Evaluation impact of the strategy, recognising The government is committed to that interventions will have a lag devolution where there is a strong before taking effect. This should evidence base, robust governance and include an assessment of whether delivery track-record in place. Robust the current set of interventions evaluation is an essential element of are effecting the desired change demonstrating these competencies. and assessing the latest evidence Greater Manchester will put in place a on ‘what works’ in collaboration comprehensive evaluation programme with independent experts. for the Local Industrial Strategy. Results of the evaluation will also be This will include the following: presented annually to the national ``Project evaluations for the specific Industrial Strategy Council. schemes that are implemented as part of the Local Industrial Strategy. It is expected that all projects funded as part of the Local Industrial Strategy will be subject to robust evaluation with independent input. Wherever possible and proportionate, cutting- edge independent evaluation methods will be used from the outset of programmes. The results of these evaluations will be shared widely. The process evaluation, described below, will include a mechanism for agreeing and monitoring that project evaluation is being undertaken robustly.

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Annex 1: Contributors to the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy

A selection of the key groups involved `` Greater Manchester in the development of the Greater Combined Authority Manchester Local Industrial Strategy `` Greater Manchester Devolution are set out below in alphabetical Voluntary, Community and Social order. We are also indebted to the Enterprise Reference Group individual businesses and people who took the time to engage with the `` Greater Manchester Digital Summit creation of this Industrial Strategy. `` Greater Manchester Foresight Group `` Be the Business `` Greater Manchester Green Summit `` Bolton Council `` Greater Manchester Health `` Bury Council and Social Care Partnership `` Business Growth Hub `` Greater Manchester Housing Providers `` Business Services Association `` Greater Manchester Local `` Confederation of British Industry Enterprise Partnership `` Construction Industry Training Board `` Greater Manchester Public `` EEF - Manufacturers’ Association Health Directors `` Employment and Skills `` Greater Manchester Youth Advisory Panel Combined Authority `` Federation of Small Businesses `` Greater Manchester Universities `` Greater Manchester Ageing Hub `` Growth Company clients `` Greater Manchester Business `` Health Innovation Manchester Advisory Panel `` Institute of Directors `` Greater Manchester Centre `` Manchester City Council for Voluntary Organisation `` MIDAS `` Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce `` Marketing Manchester `` Greater Manchester’s Colleges `` North West Business and training providers Leadership Team

96 `` Northern Powerhouse Partnership `` Tameside Metropolitan `` Oldham Council Borough Council `` Pro-Manchester `` Think-tanks (local and national) `` `` Trade Unions `` `` Trafford Council `` Stockport Metropolitan `` Transport for Greater Manchester Borough Council `` Wigan Council

References

1. Details of the Manchester 4. The Five Year Environment Plan Independent Economic Review for Greater Manchester, 2019- are available here: http:// 2024, is available here: https:// manchester-review.co.uk/ www.greatermanchester-ca. 2. Details of the Greater Manchester gov.uk/media/1986/5-year- Independent Prosperity Review plan-branded_3.pdf are available here: https://www. 5. Details of the Manchester greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/news/ Airport Transformation independent-prosperity-review/ Programme are available here: 3. The Greater Manchester and https://www.mantp.co.uk/ Science and Innovation Audit is available here: https://www.greatermanchester- ca.gov.uk/media/1136/ science_audit_final.pdf

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