Innovation Map
Explore Britain'sinnovation economy.
Dave Pendlebury from Manchester, England / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0Discover the companies, investors, universities, research, infrastructure and ecosystems contributing to Britain's innovation capability.
Discover by mission, ecosystem, sector, organisation or backbone capability.
Built using authoritative public data and independently researched sources.
Existing ecosystem · UKIZ proposal
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Where is innovation happening?
Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Bristol, London and every other cluster on the map.
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Who is working on what?
AI, life sciences, quantum, semiconductors, robotics, advanced manufacturing, clean energy.
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Who is part of the ecosystem?
Investors, companies, universities, research institutes, accelerators, infrastructure and government programmes.
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What are you trying to achieve?
Capital, research, technology, customers, manufacturing, testing, talent, market access, government support.
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The default view
Britain already has innovation gravity.
- Innovation clusters mapped
- 19Innovation clusters mapped
- Sectors represented
- 16Sectors represented
- Verified organisations & assets
- 147Verified organisations & assets
- Proposed UKIZ missions
- 11Proposed UKIZ missions
Verified means an active record with acceptable evidence behind it. Records still being verified are held back from these figures.
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Existing ecosystem · industry
Organisation type
Government-designated areas
Shown as shaded areas, not points. Government designations — separate from the existing ecosystem and from UKIZ proposals.
Where does the innovation journey break?
Research → IP → Company → Capital → Customer → Scale → Export. Select a stage to use it as a map lens.
UKIZ proposal layer
- Existing ecosystem
- Government-designated area
- Mission · centre of core capability
Where is this industry?
Advanced Manufacturing
12 clusters in Britain show capability in this area. Major clusters carry it as a primary strength; emerging clusters carry it as a secondary one.
Major clusters
Emerging & supporting
What the map shows
Britain's innovation economy is already here.
19 major clusters, dozens of research institutions, the Catapult network, national laboratories and government-designated growth areas. Often, the capability already exists. What is missing is the connection between capability, capital, customers and commercialisation.
About the data
Where this comes from.
The existing ecosystem shown here is drawn from authoritative public sources. Clusters are geographic concentrations of research and innovation activity, classified by the industries their institutions and companies work in. Government programmes are shown exactly as government designates them. UKIZ adds one layer only: proposals about what could be connected.
Data is reviewed periodically and every material record carries a source. Last reviewed: 15 August 2026.
View methodology →Compare places →Principal sources
- Department for Science, Innovation & Technology — UK Innovation Clusters Map
Reference dataset for the geographic concentration of R&D and innovation activity.
- UK Research and Innovation — Research and innovation infrastructure, centres, institutes and Catapults
Authoritative source for research institutes, Catapult centres and Innovation & Knowledge Centres.
- Catapult Network — Catapult centres and specialisms
Locations and specialisms of the Catapult network across the UK.
- GOV.UK — Investment Zones, Freeports and AI Growth Zones
Official designations, boundaries and sector focus for place-based government programmes.
- Office for National Statistics — Business, industry and regional economic statistics
Employment, business demography and regional economic context.
- British Business Bank — Small Business Equity Tracker
Regional distribution of equity investment across the UK.
- Companies House — Company register
Company registration, address and status verification.
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What Britain could achieve
The map shows what Britain has. UKIZ explores what Britain could achieve by connecting it.
Proposed by UKIZ · independent · not a government designation
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