UKIZ
Highland, Scotland · Colin / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Before anything else
Kynance Cove
Cornwall — about 3.5 hours from Bristol; a long weekend
Lewis Clarke / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0Glen Coe
Highland, Scotland
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Eryri (Snowdonia)
Gwynedd, Wales
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Wye Valley at Symonds Yat
Monmouthshire / Herefordshire — about 1 hour from Bristol
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Avon Gorge
Bristol
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The River Cam
Cambridge
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London and the Thames
London
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Clevedon Pier
North Somerset — about 30 minutes from Bristol
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Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
Bristol
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Barricane Beach, Woolacombe
North Devon — about 2 hours from Bristol; a weekend, not an evening
Nilfanion / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0Britain itself is part of the proposition. Every photograph here carries its source, licence and location.
It's already happening
Bristol
A robot.
One of the UK's largest robotics research facilities, run jointly by two universities, in a city that also designs semiconductors and makes natural history television.
Explore Bristol →Anders Sandberg from Oxford, UK / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Glasgow
A satellite.
A city that spent two centuries building ships and locomotives, now building small satellites in volume rather than assembling them from elsewhere.
See the evidence →Midwich Cuckoo / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Manchester
A new material.
Graphene was isolated here, and the institutes that followed exist to take two-dimensional materials from the bench to pilot production.
See the evidence →Dave Pendlebury from Manchester, England / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0Cambridge
A treatment.
Genomics, therapeutics and clinical research concentrated around one river, one hospital campus and an unusual density of spin-outs.
See the evidence →Ardfern / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sheffield
The way things are made.
Advanced manufacturing research working directly with aerospace, nuclear and automotive engineering on the factory floor rather than in a paper.
See the evidence →Chemical Engineer / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0Each of these connects into the canonical record: 185 organisations and assets, 147 of them verified against a named source. Open the evidence map.
Seven ways in
UKIZ maps Britain's innovation economy — 19 ecosystems, the organisations inside them, and what it is actually like to study, work, build, invest and live there. Connecting Britain's innovation economy.
Opportunities
Jobs · Internships · Research · PhDs · Apprenticeships · Projects · Volunteering · Mentoring · Collaborations · Missions. Open to everyone, no account needed.
Every opportunity checked against its own source, and removed the moment it closes.
Explore opportunitiesJoin UKIZ and we'll continuously search the innovation network for opportunities that match you — or tell the network what you need.
Build my UKIZThe vision
Eleven opportunities to build extraordinary places around Britain's greatest strengths. Concept, not construction — supported underneath by evidence of what Britain already has.
01
Existing strength · Cambridge
From discovery to treatment to global health.
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02
Existing strength · Cambridge
Where biology becomes something Britain makes.
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03
Existing strength · Bristol & Bath
Where the strange becomes useful.
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04
Existing strength · Cardiff & South Wales
Where light and silicon carry the country.
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05
Potential anchor · Manchester
Where the next material is invented, tested and made.
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06
Existing strength · Coventry & Birmingham
Where Britain builds how the world moves.
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07
Potential anchor · Bristol & Bath
Where machines learn to work with humans.
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Potential anchor · Glasgow
Build what leaves Earth. Improve what happens on it.
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09
Existing strength · Teesside & Humber
Where the energy transition becomes an industry.
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10
Existing strength · Southampton & Portsmouth
Where good technology reaches the people who need it in time.
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Existing strength · Norwich & the East
Where Britain feeds itself, and others, better.
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Explore Britain
Place by place, not sector by sector. What each city is genuinely good at, and what living there is actually like.
Enrique Íñiguez Rodríguez (Qoan) / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0Discovery
Four things about Britain that are true, sourced, and not widely known.
You probably didn't know
Bristol runs one of the UK's largest robotics laboratories.
Bristol Robotics Laboratory is a joint venture between the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol — a shared facility rather than two competing ones.
Source: Bristol Robotics Laboratory
You probably didn't know
The last Concorde ever built came home to Bristol.
Concorde Alpha Foxtrot was built at Filton and flew its final flight back there. The aerospace engineering base around it never left.
Source: Aerospace Bristol
You probably didn't know
Britain has a national facility that exists purely to make composites work at scale.
The National Composites Centre sits on the edge of Bristol as part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, taking composite structures from design to manufacture.
Source: National Composites CentreYou probably didn't know
Government mapping puts innovation clusters well beyond the golden triangle.
The DSIT innovation clusters map identifies concentrations of research and technology activity across the whole of the UK, not only London, Oxford and Cambridge.
Source: Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
UKIZ vision · concept imagery
Eleven proposed UK Innovation Zones — each one a field, its people, and a life worth staying for.
The proposal
Take part
UKIZ is an independent, privately proposed initiative — not a government body or designation. It is built in the open, and it is meant to be argued with.
