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Leicester
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The Leicester and Leicestershire region has the largest economy (£25.9 billion) in the East Midlands region in England. Leicester is one of the UK’s fastest-growing business regions. Leicester has seen a stratospheric 35% growth in business stock over the last five years. Exceeding business growth in London, Birmingham, and Nottingham, and 16% and 14% above the Midlands and national rate respectively.
Midlands Innovation universities (Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham, Warwick) are strong on R&D collaborations generating more patents per unit of research income than any other major UK university grouping, and the region as a whole boasts a portfolio of 173 university spinout companies.
Leicester the UK’s space city and home to the iconic National Space Centre and world-leading space research at three major universities, the area has a cluster of space technology companies and major new developments that place it at the heart of future opportunities in the space sector.
As part of a national network of space clusters, including Harwell and Glasgow, the £100mn Space Park Leicester provides the essential infrastructure and nucleus of expertise on one site to bring together the downstream and upstream of the space sector to service medium sized-satellites for end-to-end demand.
Join a core space science and innovation hub, which opened in 2020 with Earth Observation, coding, training, and general facilities.
Collaborate with the National Space Centre and National Space Academy, whose educational programmes support the University of Leicester's courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Utilise an already-established skilled workforce where 75% have an entry-level degree or higher and over 100,000 people are employed in science, research, engineering, and technology roles.
Gain access to a ready supply of business support and innovation products to offset the cost of innovation - SPRINT programme can invest up to £110,000 in Space-related R&D.
Exploit plans for satellite test and production facilities. Providing the tools and systems to develop: a production line; integration and testing facilities for the manufacture of low-cost satellites.
Access a steady pipeline of industry-ready graduates educated for the space sector. In 2018, there were over 20,000 students and 5,000 graduates in key related subjects in the East Midlands.
Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) provides local government, the business community, and other partners the opportunity to come together to drive forward economic growth.
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Oxford
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The Harwell Space Cluster is the gateway to the UK space sector and benefits from the presence of leading public space organisations, including the European Space Agency, RAL Space, Satellite Applications Catapult, and UK Space Agency. Harwell is also home to the Science & Technology Facilities Council, with over £2 billion of infrastructure for both public and private research and development.
Some 105 companies are based on the campus, which is Europe’s most concentrated space cluster. The growth rate is on target to deliver 5000 jobs in 200 organizations by 2030.
The global space industry is predicted to grow strongly, with estimates forecasting $ 1 trillion in revenue annually by 2040, up from $ 350 billion today. The UK generates £ 14.8 billion in annual income through 948 organizations that are active in space, up from 208 a decade ago.
Global space companies such as Airbus Defence & Space, Lockheed Martin, and Thales Alenia Space have established a presence at Harwell, with activities ranging from the design of propulsion subsystems to satellite navigation systems. A range of SMEs from start-ups in the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre to rapidly growing companies such as Oxford Space Systems, Deimos Space UK, Rezatec, and NDA joins these.
The Harwell Space Cluster is part of the UK strategy to increase its share of the rapidly expanding world space market to 10% by 2030. The UK Space market was worth £14.8bn to the economy in 2016/7, and has tripled in size since 2000. The UK Space sector already provides 41,900 jobs and directly contributes £5.1 billion GVA to UK GDP.
The Space Cluster at Harwell Campus provides consolidated support to all businesses that want to locate on the Campus and/or want to interact closely with the Cluster. It provides access to cutting-edge facilities, technical support, support for international trade and partnerships, business advice, and an investment network.
OxLEP (Oxford Local Enterprise Partnership) Business operates as the Growth Hub for Oxfordshire, simplifying the business support landscape and helping individuals and businesses to easily connect. Oxford helps small businesses (SMEs), entrepreneurs, and socially-minded enterprises find the support they need.
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Scotland
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With around 7,000 employees, Scotland is one of the UK’s biggest employment clusters for space-related industries. Thanks to the planned spaceport in the Highlands - and nascent sites located on the islands - Scotland will soon have end-to-end capability to design, manufacture, launch, and analyse data from small satellites.
Industry growth is combined with a strong heritage in research, from hypersonic technologies and remote sensing to solar sails and space debris removal. The University of Edinburgh recently launched the £45 million Bayes Centre, with the aim of becoming a world-class centre for data science and artificial intelligence.
The launch of the Bayes Centre was the beginning of a £1.1 billion investment for Edinburgh. Over the next 10 years, the university and its partners will train 100,000 people in the application of data across the region’s major industry sectors.
With around 7,000 employees, Scotland is one of the UK’s biggest employment clusters for space-related industries. Thanks to the planned spaceport in the Highlands - and nascent sites located on the islands - Scotland will soon have end-to-end capability to design, manufacture, launch, and analyse data from small satellites.
Scotland has an ambitious plan that aims to create 20,000 jobs. Its space strategy aims to secure a £ 4 billion share of the global space market for the Scottish economy. The Scottish Space Strategy sets out plans to develop a network of satellite launch sites to pursue green technologies and build on existing strengths in data analysis and research. The Scottish Government is strongly collaborating with its enterprise agencies, industry group Space Scotland and the Scottish Space Academic Forum.
Scottish Development International (SDI) is the Scottish Government’s international trade and investment agency. SDI works closely with the Department of International Trade, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and the new South of Scotland Enterprise.
SDI assists international companies by providing support in identifying suitable investment locations, training and recruitment support, access to finance, and identifying suitable business partners.
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Wales
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Wales offers a compelling location for horizontal launch activities with the best combination case for operational safety and accessibility. It provides an ideal airspace environment in which to develop satellite and launch technologies (HAPS and Lighter Than Air technologies). This includes the infrastructure to:
Wales is home to companies such as Airbus Defence and Space, CGi, General Dynamics, IQE, QinetiQ, QioptiQ Space Technologies, Teledyne Labtech, and TWI.
The electronic and software technologies industry (EST Industry) in Wales has both the expertise and capability to commercially support the emerging space cluster at all levels. Around 3,200 companies within the EST Industry are supported by a range of world-class Welsh academic institutions.
The Wales Academic Space Partnership (WASP) is a collaboration between six Welsh universities to develop new solutions for space and support the development of space-related companies. This group has supported missions to Mars, been at the cutting edge of solar physics, deep space missions, and played an integral part in proving the existence of gravity waves in space. WASP member space expertise includes, but is not limited to:
Wales’ top three strengths in the space sector are:
Trade & Invest Wales is the official Welsh Government Foreign Direct Investment marketing initiative for Wales. It promotes Wales as a base for businesses and supports and facilitates international companies interested in locating there.
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