Innovation for Sustainable Airports a Science and Innovation Audit
Innovation for Sustainable Airports A Science and Innovation Audit Report sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy Summer 2018 Acknowledgements The primary authors of this report have been Brunel University London, ICE blue, Conigital and Olu Odeniyi (Former Chair and CEO Maidenhead and District Chamber of Commerce). Our Science and Innovation Audit Consortium has also provided significant input, support and advice, the Advisory Board Members are listed in Appendix 1. The Consortium would like to thank the local and national businesses and academics whom provided their views and insight to this Science and Innovation Audit. Consortium Partners 2 Foreword Science and Innovation Audits, introduced in 2015, have helped provide evidence of the different science, innovation and industrial environments of places across the UK, and how they might best contribute to improving the UK’s productivity and to growing exports. In late 2017 the UK government published a white paper, Industrial Strategy: building a Britain fit for the future. As well as detailing a range of plans and proposals for strategic government intervention in the development of the UK economy and industry, it reaffirmed the government’s view of the importance of Place, describing it as one of the ‘five foundations of productivity.’ This SIA differs from others completed in waves 1 & 2, in that it takes a whole ecosystem approach around a specific business, London Heathrow Airport. In doing so, we view Heathrow as both an ‘Anchor Business’ for the 400 businesses that come together to operate Heathrow and their supply chains, and as a ‘Connectivity Institution’, enabling people and products from across the UK to connect with the emerging economies within Asia and South America.
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