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By delivering ambitious, place-based initiatives, Midlands Innovation helps to tackle the region’s biggest challenges. Our collaboration works to champion and strengthen the region’s research and innovation ecosystem.
Our partnership champions the Midlands and its strengths, to secure investment and create jobs. We provide insights and data to support regional partners to create solutions for the region.
Our place-based initiatives:
Provide insights and expertise to support external stakeholders and partners in decision making, enhancing their wider understanding of the Midlands.
Strengthen the Midlands research and innovation ecosystem, helping regional partners to advocate for the Midlands research and innovation offer.
Attract the best research infrastructure to the Midlands.
Enhance the profile of the Midlands by acting as regional ambassadors to secure investment and create jobs.
Universities make a huge civic impact through a range of ways, be that through working together through civic university agreements, such as our Universities Partnership in Leicestershire, or via investment in local assets, jobs and the supply of skilled graduates as well as stimulating the innovation ecosystem and supporting local communities. By working together, Midlands Innovation universities can be catalysts for change and have the potential to make an even stronger contribution to the Midlands region.
Professor Nishan Canagarajah
Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester
Midlands Innovation Board of Vice-Chancellors
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Midlands Innovation is a pan-regional university partnership made up of eight research-intensive universities across the wider Midlands region. Our research collaborations and activity has a positive impact at a regional, national and global level.
By delivering ambitious place-based initiatives, we will tackle the region’s biggest challenges. Midlands Innovation has proven research strengths in energy, health, social sciences, space and transport and a strong track record collaborating in enterprise, research culture and research infrastructure. As the research and innovation landscape evolves, we intend to respond by developing new research themes where we can combine our collective strengths.
Midlands Innovation universities support over 78,000 jobs in the Midlands and make an estimated £10bn contribution to the economy. Our collaboration activity helped to generate £608m worth of investment into the region in 2020-21.
We deliver world-class research that impacts the people living in our communities.
We catalyse new research collaborations across the Midlands Innovation membership, creating research communities for a purpose. We generate new ideas in partnership with regional stakeholders.
Our collaborative approach influences future prospects for the region. We shape and inform national and local policy through research and innovation projects we deliver together.
We deliver ambitious, large-scale collaborative research projects and develop renowned research programmes that create opportunities for the Midlands.
