Why Britain

Britain has a lot to work with.

• Universities and research

  Globally respected universities and research capability across science, engineering, medicine, technology, creative disciplines and business.

• Science and research

  Established capability across life sciences, AI, advanced materials, engineering biology, quantum, semiconductors, robotics and space.

• Entrepreneurship

  A well-established base of founders, start-ups, scale-ups, advisers and experienced operators.

• Capital

  London is a major financial centre. UKIZ maps where stronger bridges could be built between research, entrepreneurs, companies and capital.

• Intellectual property

  A mature, trusted intellectual-property framework, so ideas can be protected, owned, financed, licensed and commercialised.

• Rule of law

  International investors and businesses understand and trust British legal and commercial institutions.

• Language and time zone

  English is the dominant international language of business, science and investment. The working day overlaps with Asia, the Gulf, Europe and North America in turn.

• Geography

  The UK is geographically compact. Universities, cities, airports, financial institutions and industrial clusters sit relatively close together. In practice that means most of the country is a day trip, so a specialist five hours away is still workable.

Research, industry and capital are already distributed across Britain.

Each point on the map is a place where capability, companies and universities already cluster. UKIZ reads and connects them; it does not create them.