Supporting Innovation

Current situation

The Western Gateway has always been highly innovative. Wider South West England and Wales both outrank the UK and EU average in the EU Innovation index, and South West England is home to 52.5% of the UK’s high growth businesses. An ecosystem of university, public, and private sector start-ups, scale-ups, multi-nationals and innovation infrastructure provides technology pull at the same time as driving technology adoption and diffusion.

With Europe’s most advanced Cyber cluster and leading expertise in developing the next generation of Hydrogen and Nuclear technology we are looking at how we can encourage collaboration to attract new opportunities to the area.

We believe that through our innovation sectors, the Western Gateway is a centre for the future economy. With the five key sectors for a future UK economy, the second highest skilled workforce in the UK and aided by strong collaborative networks in close proximity across the region we’re set to design the future for the UK and wider world.