South Yorkshire's strategic assets
The Global Innovation Cluster (GIC) connects assets across prime capabilities; Advanced Manufacturing, Health and Wellbeing, Energy and Digital such as:
- Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District (AMID)
- Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) – incorporating the Medical Advanced Manufacturing research Centre (MAMRC) and the Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre)
- The Seam - Barnsley’s Digital Media Centre
- iPort, Doncaster
- Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park – also based there is the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC), National Centre of Excellence for Food Engineering (NCEFE) and the National Centre for Child Health Technology (NCCHT)
- UKAEA Fusion Technology Facility
- The University of Sheffield – Centres of Excellence including Gene Therapy Innovation and Manufacturing Centre (GTIMC), Translational Energy Research Centre (TERC) and Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)
Connecting Innovation
We are focused on creating conditions for good growth, therefore supporting the commercialisation of innovation is our priority.
We deliver an intelligence-led approach to scale-up businesses, boost competitiveness of new and existing sectors, widen trade aspirations and develop platforms for innovation districts to flourish.
We want to do business with people, places and companies that share our ambition of lasting, long term and mutually productive relationships.
DISCOVER THE NORTHERN POWERHOUSE
The Northern Powerhouse includes 5 of the UK’s ten largest cities, including Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Sheffield and it is growing. The Northern Powerhouse is home to 15.3 million people and 1.1 million businesses, and with an economy now worth £339 billion, the North is a great place to live, work, visit and, critically, a fantastic environment for businesses to invest.