4. Developing science and innovation
The Northern Powerhouse is already home to many centres of scientific excellence.
The N8 Research Partnership is a collaboration of the eight most research intensive universities in the North of England: Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York.
www.N8research.org.uk
Siemens Gamesa have invested over £160m in the Humber region to boost the UK’s offshore wind industry.
Peel Ports have invested over £1bn to create an enlarged deep water container terminal at Seaforth Dock, part of the Port of Liverpool. The terminal can berth two 14,000 container Post-Panamax ships and is able to service 95% of the world’s largest container ships, opening up faster supply chain transit for at least 50% of the existing UK container market.
The Government has invested £60m in the new Graphene Institute to turn a great idea invented in Manchester into businesses of the future and they have backed the Henry Royce Institute for materials science, research and innovation with £235m to build on the north’s strengths in advanced materials and innovation.
Citu are building the Climate Innovation District which will be the largest sustainable development in the UK. This is a £125m investment to create 500 ultra-low carbon homes a 15 minute walk along the riverfront from Leeds city centre.
A world class centre for high value advanced manufacturing has been created in Sheffield at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in partnership with the University of Sheffield and is open to manufacturers of all sizes. The 100 plus industrial members range from global giants like Boeing, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Airbus and McLaren to small companies.
The Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) will act as the research hub for the National Centre for Sports & Exercise Medicine in Sheffield, a 2012 Olympic Legacy project which co-locates clinical services and physical activity facilities to help people with a medical need to exercise more easily. International recognition for the National Centre is demonstrated by its designation by the International Olympic Committee as a Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health – one of just nine around the world.
Following a £14m investment from the UK’s Department of Health, the AWRC will be the most advanced research and development centre for physical activity in the world, providing state-of-the-art, fully instrumented indoor and outdoor laboratories and a team of over 70 researchers delivering collaborative projects. These researchers, from Sheffield Hallam University, will be drawn from specialities covering sports engineering, materials engineering and software development to elite sports science and psychology.
Alongside these important projects sit eleven Local Enterprise Partnerships and seventeen Enterprise Zones supporting businesses across the North.
The Enterprise Zones have already attracted £1.3bn of private sector investment, supported 200 different businesses and have created 9,000 jobs.
The Chairs of each of the 11 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will sit on a newly formed, government-funded board called the ‘NP11’.
The board will act as one voice representing each of their regions as a modern day ‘Council for the North’ to work with and advise the government on issues such as how to increase productivity, overcome regional disparities in economic growth and tackle the historic north- south divide.
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