Upstream Space SIA Greater East Midlands 1 Regional Overview.................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Territory ............................................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Scope................................................................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Socio-Economic Characteristics........................................................................................................................ 4 1.4 Science and Innovation Capabilities ................................................................................................................. 5 1.5 Context Within the UK ................................................................................................................................... 14 2 Strengths in Science and Innovation..................................................................................................................... 16 2.1 Excellence in Science and Research................................................................................................................ 16 2.2 Innovation strengths and growth points .......................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Knowledge Transfer, Skills and Training ....................................................................................................... 23 3 Themes..................................................................................................................................................................... 25 3.1 Method ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 3.2 Access to Space (A2S) .................................................................................................................................... 28 3.3 Satellites and Vehicles (SAV)......................................................................................................................... 31 3.4 Ground Systems (GS)...................................................................................................................................... 35 3.5 Exploration and Enabling Technologies (E&E).............................................................................................. 37 3.6 Cross-Theme Developments ........................................................................................................................... 40 3.7 Coverage Summary......................................................................................................................................... 45 4 Conclusions.............................................................................................................................................................. 47 4.1 Gap Analysis ................................................................................................................................................... 47 4.2 Targeted Opportunities.................................................................................................................................... 48 4.3 Next Steps ....................................................................................................................................................... 49 A Research Organisations........................................................................................................................................A-1 A.1 Industrial and General ...................................................................................................................................A-1 A.2 Universities ...................................................................................................................................................A-3 A.3 Secondary and Further Education .................................................................................................................A-4 A.4 Hospitals and Healthcare...............................................................................................................................A-4 B JACS Codes for Upstream Space ........................................................................................................................ B-1 C Questionnaires.......................................................................................................................................................C-1 C.1 HEI Questionnaire......................................................................................................................................... C-1 C.2 LEP Questionnaire ........................................................................................................................................ C-2 C.3 Questions for Multinational Space Companies ............................................................................................. C-3 D Company List........................................................................................................................................................D-1 E HEIDI+ Data......................................................................................................................................................... E-1 E.1 Graduate Numbers per Subject...................................................................................................................... E-1 E.2 Retention Numbers........................................................................................................................................ E-7 F European Framework Programme Participation.............................................................................................. F-1 F.1 H2020 Regional Participation ........................................................................................................................F-1 F.2 FP7 Regional Participation.............................................................................................................................F-4 ii List of Tables Table 1-1: Footprint LEPs .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Table 1-2: Summary Economic Characteristics.................................................................................................................. 4 Table 1-3: Estimate of regionally retained upstream space ´technical group´ graduates.................................................... 9 Table 2-1: Engineering publications................................................................................................................................. 16 Table 2-2: Computing science publications...................................................................................................................... 17 Table 2-3: Materials science publications......................................................................................................................... 17 Table 2-4: Physics publications ........................................................................................................................................ 17 Table 2-5: HEI ranking for citation impact in key topics ................................................................................................. 18 Table 2-6: REF2014 Results for Regional HEIs............................................................................................................... 18 Table 2-7: Overview of European framework programme regional engagement............................................................. 20 Table 3-1: Example company table .................................................................................................................................. 27 Table 3-2: Occupation codes for workforce survey.......................................................................................................... 29 Table 3-3: Summary of regional NSTP projects (public support) .................................................................................... 40 Table 3-4: Space investments and projects with LLEP support........................................................................................ 41 Table 3-5: Start-up support centres................................................................................................................................... 44 Table 3-6: Product tree coverage summary ...................................................................................................................... 45 Table 4-1: Gap Summary.................................................................................................................................................. 48 Table D-1: Example company table ...............................................................................................................................D-1 List of Figures Figure 1-1: Proposed East Midlands Hub for HS2 connectivity......................................................................................... 2 Figure 1-2: Greater East Midlands (LEP outlines) ............................................................................................................. 3 Figure 1-3: Space industry