UKIZ · UNITED KINGDOM INNOVATION ZONES
UKIZ is building a shared national record of British innovation and industrial capability. Discover the organisations, facilities, research, funding, jobs and events across 11 Innovation Zones, then join the community helping to make that record stronger.
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Thousands of organisations and opportunities are already visible. But this is only the beginning. Every organisation claimed, capability added and record corrected makes UKIZ more useful for the whole country.
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Innovation Zones
The great national effort
The world is racing to invent what comes next. Artificial intelligence, space, robotics, medicine, energy and advanced manufacturing are moving at extraordinary speed. The United Kingdom has the talent, ingenuity and determination to help lead them.
But too much of our capability remains hidden across different organisations, industries and regions. UKIZ is bringing that picture together so founders can find facilities, companies can discover suppliers, researchers can reach commercial partners, investors can see opportunities and talented people can find where they belong.
The more complete the record becomes, the more useful it becomes for everyone. It can make companies easier to start, help businesses grow, attract investment and create skilled jobs across the country.
We have made the start. Now we need your help, and the help of others like you, to complete it.
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Together, we can make the United Kingdom the world's most connected innovation nation and the place where ambitious people from around the world want to come and build what comes next.
The 11 Innovation Zones
The 11 Innovation Zones bring together the industries shaping our future. Each one shows the organisations, research, facilities, investment, jobs and opportunities Britain already has, then invites the people working within it to improve the picture.
Individually, they reveal extraordinary capability. Together, they show what the United Kingdom could become.
Robotics, autonomous systems and the places to test them.
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Medicines, devices, diagnostics and clinical evidence.
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Engineered organisms, biomanufacturing and biofoundries.
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Computing, sensing and timing built on quantum behaviour.
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Chips, compound semiconductors and photonic components.
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Composites, alloys, coatings and materials processing.
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Vehicles, batteries, propulsion and advanced manufacturing.
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Small satellites, launch, earth observation and downstream data.
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Offshore wind, storage, grid, hydrogen and nuclear.
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Defence, security and dual-use technology.
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Farming systems, food production and agricultural robotics.
Illustrative UKIZ campus. Not a proposed site.
Explore the ZoneWhat changed
Scientists at The University of Manchester will contribute specialist expertise in enzyme engineering and therapeutic oligonucleotides to a new £50 million research centre aiming to improve understanding and treatment of mitochondrial diseases.
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I have made the start. Now I need your help.
Building UKIZ has been one of the most exciting and eye-opening things I have ever done. I have been genuinely astonished by what is happening up and down this country.
I have invested my own time and money into making a start, but no single person or organisation could complete it alone.
Now I am asking you to help make it real.