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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.
Our partnership influences future prospects for the region, and we shape and inform national and local policy through our research and innovation collaborations. We champion the region’s research, innovation and enterprise strengths to help leverage investment into world-class clusters.
Our place-based initiatives:
Provide our civic leaders with the evidence they need to inform local policy.
Influence policy on research practice, for example as related to our work on technicians.
Ensure that a policy component is considered for all our projects to ensure we maximise the impact regionally and nationally from those projects.
Deliver specific, collaborative, policy commissions which provide new evidence on agendas critical to the Midlands, when appropriate.
Midlands Health and Care Inequalities Policy Commission. Due to launch in 2024
The Energy Research Accelerator’s Policy Commission: ‘Assessing the Case for Public Ownership in the Energy Sector’
The TALENT Commission: Technical skills, roles and careers in UK higher education and research
Universities as Drivers of Trade and Investment Pilot: The role of universities in driving overseas investment into UK Research and Development.
The Health and Care Inequalities Policy Commission identifies how our region’s significant expertise can work in collaboration with our people and communities to improve health outcomes throughout the Midlands.
Sir John Peace
Chairman of Midlands Engine
Taking on a Commission that looks at inequalities across a region is no easy task. This Commission sets out the need for innovation, shared-learning and a collaborative regional approach to health and social care inequalities.
Lord Victor Adebowale CBE
Chair of NHS Confederation
Chair of the Midlands Health and Care Inequalities Policy Commission
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Midlands Innovation can help convene conversations between our eight partners and external stakeholders, on specific topics or areas of interest. If you would like support facilitating conversations, please get in touch by email: info@midlandsinnovation.org.uk
We act as one voice in response to queries or consultations that are relevant to our partners and submit joint responses to government consultations. Midlands Innovation programmes have published several policy commissions, such as the landmark TALENT Commission, which sets out a blueprint for the future of the UK’s technical workforce.
We deliver world-class research that impacts the people living in our communities.
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.
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.
We deliver ambitious, large-scale collaborative research projects and develop renowned research programmes that create opportunities for the Midlands.
