How do you want to be part of this?

• Learn

  Understand the field.

• Study

  Courses, universities, apprenticeships and pathways.

• Work

  Companies, careers, skills and opportunities.

• Build

  Startups, programmes, facilities and support.

• Research

  Research organisations, collaboration and commercialisation.

• Invest

  Companies, investors and emerging opportunities.

• Collaborate

  Needs, offers, projects and challenges.

• Meet

  Events, gatherings and eventually Innovation Camps.

These are participation paths, not membership tiers. Joining the mission is how UKIZ knows which of them to put in front of you.

From interest to intent

Current hypothesis

Where the capability is

A mission is not a single place.

Core capability means a particularly strong concentration relevant to this mission. Connected capability means other ecosystems contributing important complementary strength. UKIZ maps capability before allocating prestige: no place has been designated the home of any mission.

The mission in detail

Where could I be part of this?

This mission has places behind it.

Missions are national communities, but the work happens somewhere. These destinations have a specific angle on this mission — what pursuing it there would mean, and what living there is like. They are not the only places in Britain doing this work.

• Manchester →

  Manufacturing supply chains across the North West within an hour of the research.

  Big-city ambition without London being the only answer.

• Glasgow →

  Advanced manufacturing with a shipbuilding and engineering inheritance behind it.

  Build things that leave the planet, from a city with a personality firmly on it.

• Sheffield & Rotherham →

  Applied manufacturing research at production scale, open to companies as well as primes.

  Machine the part in the morning, be on a moor in the National Park by six.

• Newcastle & the North East →

  Battery and electrification supply chain build-out at industrial scale.

  Electrify transport and the North Sea, from a city with a coastline and a conscience.

• Teesside & the Humber →

  Heavy manufacturing and fabrication with port capacity for oversized components.

  If Britain decarbonises heavy industry, it happens here first.

• Birmingham & the West Midlands →

  Vehicle engineering and electrification with the supply chain still in place.

  Design the vehicle, find someone within an hour who can actually make the part.

• Nottingham & Derby →

  Aero engines and rail vehicles engineered and built in the same region.

  Aero engines, rail manufacture and nuclear engineering — the East Midlands still builds hard things.

Get involved

What are you working on?

If this mission is your world — as a founder, researcher, operator, investor or institution — tell us what you could contribute and what you need.

Personalise UKIZ

Other missions

• Life Sciences & Health Innovation

  Turn British discovery and NHS-scale clinical evidence into British medicines, devices and health companies

• Engineering Biology & Biomanufacturing

  Make Britain a place where engineered biology is manufactured, not only invented

• Quantum Technologies

  Convert two decades of national quantum research investment into British companies and customers