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GREATER MANCHESTER and CHESHIRE EAST a Science and Innovation Audit Report GREATER MANCHESTER AND CHESHIRE EAST A Science and Innovation Audit Report sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 1 Contents Foreword 2 Executive summary 3 1 Introduction to Greater Manchester and Cheshire East 7 1.1 Audit process 8 1.2 Overall economic performance and connectivity 9 2 Regional science and innovation assets 11 2.1 Science and research assets 12 2.2 Science and innovation talent 16 3 Excellence in science and research 17 4 Innovation 18 5 National and international engagement 25 6 International developments in science and technology 27 7 Conclusions 31 Annex A Consortium structure and members 34 Annex B Core Data 35 Annex C The University of Manchester on Corridor Manchester 36 Annex D Table showing the potential for inter-connectedness between strengths 37 Annex E Glossary 39 Annex F Abbreviations 40 Annex G Bibliography 41 Annex H Pankhurst Institute 42 2 Foreword Connectivity put our region at the heart This Science and Innovation Audit, in of the Industrial Revolution, when one partnership with central government, particular innovation, the canal network, is an important step in helping us revolutionised the textiles industry. Today appreciate the strengths within Greater our industries may look a lot different, but Manchester and Cheshire East. From the one thing remains the same: the better perspective of business it helps us to our connections, the better our chance achieve a critical aim in ensuring that of a healthier, more successful economy excellence in science is aligned as and society. effectively as possible with opportunities for companies to innovate successfully. Greater Manchester and Cheshire East are home to a high level of partners hip This Audit has focused on identified and connectivity, not least in the areas of specialisms around health innovation, core strength: health innovation and advanced materials, energy, digital and advanced materials. We also have fast- industrial biotechnology, and identified a growth opportunities in digital, energy and number of nationally important science industrial biotechnology, with a wide range and research assets. It has also of science and innovation assets across demonstrated that innovation depends all five areas. not just on physical assets but on people, talent, skills, and infrastructure. It Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, Building on the interconnectivity between positions existing companies and FRS, FMedSci these is at the crux of the vision set out in potential inward investors to capitalise on President and Vice-Chancellor this SIA. Synergies will accelerate the flow a dynamic and highly trained workfor,ce of The University of Manchester of scientific innovation to the market, including a nationally significant boost productivity and potentially develop concentration in clinical healthcare, solutions to national and global challenges. a digital and technology cluster, one of largest graduate pools in Europe, While acknowledging the demonstrable and a concentration of STEM graduates scientific excellence, dynamic workforce and postgraduates. and business support environment of the region, as well our physical infrastructure Partnership working is underlined by and progressive governance, the SIA also strong governance arrangements. shows us a number of ways forward in Greater Manchester was the UK’s first order to raise skill levels, drive innovative Combined Authority, and has agreed a activity and more closely align industry number of important devolution deals and science. These will require strategic with central government, most recently investment in future and existing assets, on health and social care. This is but also in developing, attracting and underpinned by a strong public and retaining talent, and in support for new private business support environment, and growing businesses. including a Business Growth Hub, Manufacturing Champions Network, Juergen Maier The UK government has begun to four Enterprise Zones, and growing Chief Executive of Siemens plc demonstrate its support for a better incubator space, as well as strong connected north through the Northern physical infrastructure, including Powerhouse initiative. It has also Manchester Airport. recognised the strengths of our infrastructu re via the devolution of This Audit provides a platform for powers and budgets in Greater ongoing engagement, so that we Manchester. This SIA shows a path which ensure that we support the innovation the government and our authorities can eco-system and extract maximum value take to fully harness the potential within from existing assets, as well as continuing Greater Manchester and Cheshire East to to invest to maintain world-class bring benefits that spread through – and excellence and stay at the forefront of beyond – our region. international scientific development. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, FRS, Juergen Maier FMedSci Chief Executive of Siemens plc President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Manchester 3 Executive summary In autumn 2015 the UK government announced regional Science and Innovation Audits (SIAs) to catalyse a new approach to regional economic development. SIAs enable local consortia to focus on analysing regional strengths and identify mechanisms to realise their potential. In Greater Manchester (GM) and Cheshire East (CE), a consortium was formed to focus on our strengths in health innovation, advanced materials, energy, digital and industrial biotechnology. This report presents the results which includes broad-ranging analysis of GM and CE’s capabilities, the challenges and the substantial opportunities for future economic growth. Context 2. ‘Fast-growth opportunities’ focused on At the core of the industrial strategy for the future potential of digital, energy, and both GM and CE is the need to harness industrial biotechnology, where our knowledge, innovation, skills and assets and capabilities offer real scope for infrastructure to drive the local economy, future development. create jobs and raise productivity. Realisation of the full potential from our Our guiding hypotheses were firstly that science and innovation strengths will also we have five areas of core strengths and benefit wider global societal challenges. fast growth opportunities which could be These include climate change, energy combined to release new synergies of security, transport efficiency, and a innovation and productivity growth, and sustainable health and social care system. secondly that we would have to address Informed by the results of our Smart gaps in our regional innovation ecosystem Specialisation Platform analysis, emerging that are constraining our ability to do so in imperatives for growing the economy of order to realise full potential. GM and CE’s the Northern Powerhouse and devolution collaboration on this Audit is borne out of of the health and social care budget to shared ambition, functional geography, GM, we identified two ‘areas’ of focus for talent and assets, and a strong history of this Science and Innovation Audit (SIA): working together in partnership, such as joint action to secure a future for Alderley 1. ‘Core strengths’ in health innovation Park1 (home to 150 bioscience and advanced materials, where we have companies), and the £31m Joint Cheshire existing, internationally- recognised and GM Life Science Fund2. excellence. 1https://moderngov.cheshireeast.gov.uk/documents/s31312/Alderley%20Park%20Development%20Prospec tus%20-%20Appendix%201.pdf 2http://www.gmclifesciencesfund.com/ 4 Vision Particularly important is the Advanced materials: eg Sir Henry Royce Our vision derives directly from our first accompanying training programme. Institute, National Graphene Institute, hypothesis that we can create a global Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, competitive advantage by driving This gives us a large concentration of BP International Centre for Advanced synergies from our core capabilities. Our graphene scientists with additional MateriaM)ls (BP-ICA 13, Cockcroft areas of excellence create additional entrepreneurship training. The Sir Henry Institute. positive spill-overs and value when Royce Institute8 will create a national combined. This inter-connectedness will focus to overcome traditionally long lead- Digital: eg recognised as the UK’s second enable us to co-develop applications in times and act as a “rapid accelerator” digital hub through MediaCityUK, Farr new technologies. It will be achieved by through TRLs to application, notably in Institute, CityVerve, Jodrell Bank, Hartree linking our unique clusters of excellence in the manufacturing sector. Centre (Sci-Tech Daresbury), and fundamental science with an ability to put associated tech cluster14. that scientific knowledge into application iii. GM as a full-scale test-bed and lead – bringing together local and national market to develop and demonstrate Energy: eg National Nuclear Laboratory, partners. Three key opportunities innovative technology Dalton Nuclear Institute, National Grid identified are: Our fast-growth opportunities, digital and High Voltage Laboratory, Birchwood energy, as with health, combine excellence nuclear cluster, Amec Foster Wheeler’s i. Health – a globally leading centre for in research and facilities with a particular High Temperature Facility. clinical trials competence in mounting large-scale We have the largest concentration of projects in the community. This is illustrated Indust rial biotechnology: eg Manchester excellence in health research nationally by the large-scale demonstrators, Institute of Biotechnology,
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