Digital & Creative Sector: Context & Opportunities Mark Basnett, Managing Director, LCR LEP
City Region Growth Strategy
Growth Strategy: Vision We will build on our core strengths and capacity for innovation to create a globally competitive City Region at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse
Growth Strategy: Objectives 1. To start, attract and grow more businesses 2. To nurture and grow our talent base 3. To enhance and protect our distinctive quality of place 4. To create more sustainable and high value jobs
Growth Strategy: 3 Pillars Productivity Building on our sector strengths Growing successful businesses People Attracting, nurturing and retaining talent Employer led skills interventions Place Improving our physical & digital connectivity Enhancing and protecting our quality of place Upgrade and rebalance housing
Growth Strategy: Productivity Build on our Sector Strengths Ambition is for each of Liverpool City Region s distinct sectors to become a beacon of excellence, productivity and accelerated growth Investment in facilities, infrastructure, networks, people and innovation creating more and higher skilled jobs and more growth businesses throughout our economy Advanced Manufacturing Digital and Creative Financial and Professional Health and Life Sciences Low Carbon Energy Maritime and Logistics Visitor Economy
Growth Strategy: Productivity Digital and Creative To be a world leader in the application of high performance and cognitive computing and sensor technology to revolutionise productivity across all sectors To be the best place in the UK to start, grow and scale up a digital or creative business
Growth Strategy: People Improving our skills & talent Improve and increase skills capitalising on existing talent and attracting new talent Employer led strategy will be developed and adopted by summer 2017 to maximise devolution opportunities based on comprehensive review of skills provision and business needs and opportunities and include: Skills Commission Clear skills pathway partnerships Improve diversity and productivity Innovative scholarships Common skills frameworks Capital investment in skills
Growth Strategy: Place Maximise our competitive advantages Transport integrated multi modal transport system; linking Liverpool to HS2; Global port and logistics hub for the Northern UK and Ireland Green Energy become the largest marine energy hub in Europe Digital - Ultra fast Broadband Adopt a Whole Place approach
UK Industrial Strategy Building our Industrial Strategy
Industrial Strategy: 10 Pillars o Invest in science, research & innovation o Developing Skills o Upgrading infrastructure (inc digital) o Supporting business to start & grow o Improving procurement o Encouraging Trade & Investment o Affordable energy & clean growth o Cultivating world-leading sectors o Driving growth across the country o Creating the right institutions
Why is the Sector Important? Digital technologies are unlike any others they change everything businesses do a form of basic literacy, a major sector in its own right, plus a multiplier that underpins growth across all other sectors Globally transformational 5 of the 12 disruptive technologies that will change the world/economy Big data 1 of 8 Great Technologies where UK world-leading
Our Distinctive Assets/Capabilities Big Data Analytics/HPC/Visualisation: STFC Hartree Centre UK s most powerful industrial R&D Supercomputer; 1 st UK Power Design & Acceleration Centre; UK-leading Virtual Engineering Centre Cognitive Computing/AI: Only UK deployment of IBM Watson platform ( 200million IBM + 113 million UK Government) Alder Hey s Living Hospital concept IoT & Sensors: 1 of only 3 UK IoT tech. clusters; Sensor City incubator JV Health Tech: AIMES N3 secure data storage at Wavertree Tech. Campus; e-health cluster & largest deployment for a single economy in Europe Creative Industries Niches: Film & TV; Gaming; Music Technology; FACT
Distinctive Assets/Capabilities Research Excellence: UoL 1 st in UK for world leading/internationally excellent Computer Science research; LJMU 8 th for Big Data publications impact - 17% in global top 10% (2014 REF) Education: 1 st UK Microsoft Showcase College (City of Liverpool ), Studio School Big Players: IBM; Sony; Shop Direct; Unilever; O2 (St.Helens test bed) Baltic Triangle & exceptional LCR-wide SME base working across all sectors PLUS Regional capabilities and excellence in Manchester etc
Opportunity: UK Investment Industrial Strategy / Challenge Fund ( 2+bn) Bioscience & Biotechnology Leading-edge Healthcare & Medicine Manufacturing Processes & Materials of the Future New Energy Technologies Quantum Technologies Robotics & AI Satellites & Space Technologies Transformative Digital Technologies Integrated & Sustainable Cities Technologies for the Creative Industries Digital & Creative sector relevant to all these
Opportunity: Regional Investment 1. LCR Single Investment Fund directly linked to devolution - 458 million over 1 st 5 years 6 Themes set out in SIF Prospectus Business Growth and Sector Development: R&D and Innovation Skills Regeneration, Development & Culture Transport & Other Infrastructure (e.g. Digital & Energy): Housing Emphasis on jobs/growth, value for money, revolving funds 2. 400million Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
Opportunity: Business Support Tech North: championing the sector, connecting networks, case studies, awards, events Business Growth Hub: coordinated business support/advice/funding Collaborative business-led LCR initiatives: e.g. Creative Kitchen, KIN, BIMA, e-health cluster LCR 4.0: 9million ERDF co-funded UK-leading 4 th Industrial Revolution (4IR) scheme to transform the productivity of the LCR manufacturing sector using IoT/sensor technologies (Hartree Centre, LCR LEP, LJMU, Sensor City, University of Liverpool, Virtual Engineering Centre) Health Enterprise Innovation Exchange: 3.6 million ERDF co-funded LCR scheme to accelerate the development, commercialisation & scale-up of innovative health/care products &services (AIMES, Alder Hey, Innovation Agency, LCR LEP, Liverpool CCG, LJMU, Mersey Care) LCR Activate: 3million ERDF co-funded dedicated sector development support & advice/expertise/events/grants to maximise opportunities & scale-up re. cognitive computing + HPC/big data + cloud computing + merging data (FACT, LCR LEP, LJMU)
Opportunity: Place & Space 2+billion Knowledge Quarter Liverpool, including: - Sensor City: one of the world's 1st incubators dedicated to creating/exploiting sensor tech. (2017) - Materials Innovation Factory: world leader in computer-aided materials design (2017) - potential Digital Innovation Factory (MIF 2) Baltic Triangle ongoing expansion, e.g. Northern Lights 10 Streets Atlantic Corridor creating a new creative quarter Edge Lane Sound Stage/Digital Campus SciTech Daresbury - ongoing expansion of leading UK science & innovation campus
LCR Digital & Creative Board The Voice of the Sector (locally, nationally & beyond) Strategic advisory body & sounding board Sectoral skills development Co-ordinate & broker collaborations within and across D&C & other sectors Promote LCR s distinctive D&C assets Oversee development & delivery of sector action plan Identify new funding & investment, finance and funding streams to support delivery.
Membership INTERIM CHAIR: Kate Willard, Board Member / Head of Corporate Projects, LCR LEP / Stobart Group MEMBERS: Bryan Adams, MD, PH Creative Paul Corcoran, MD, Agent Marketing Jon Corner, CEO, The Landing - Media City Ian Finch, MD, Mando Group Amanda Follitt, Head of Digital Operations Services, Amaze Evan Grant, Programme Manager STFC & IBM Collaboration, IBM Cathy Skelly, Creative & Digital Investment Manager, Liverpool Vision Norman Mellor, Client Director, Central & Devolved Government, Telefónica UK Limited (O2) Dr. Katherine Robertson, Head of Campus Development, STFC SciTech Daresbury Tim Nichol, Dean of the Business School, LJMU Lee Omar, CEO, Red Ninja Dan Rubel, Group Strategy & Communications Director, Shop Direct Chelsea Slater, Co-Founder & MD, Liverpool Girl Geeks Ltd. Jo Wright, Executive Director, FACT Interim Sector Development Executive: John Whaling, Innovation & Strategic Investment Lead, LCR LEP
Digital & Creative Board Focus 1. Business support & investment 2. Business-led skills & workforce development 3. Access to UK & international markets 4. Place & space 5. Marketing & communications
Next Steps: Realising Our Potential Action Plan To turn the Growth Strategy into delivery Industrial Strategy Strategy and Challenge Fund consultation Skills Commission Evidence based, employer led Skills Commission Science & Innovation Audit Focus on HPC and Cognitive computing Get Involved What does your business need to grow? What s your big idea to transform our economy?
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