The UKTCG Roadmap for 2025 As we look ahead to 2025, the UK Tech Cluster Group (UKTCG) remains focused on supporting thriving, inclusive, and impactful tech ecosystems across the UK. Our priorities remain the same: ensuring regional voices drive national tech policy and activity while sharing best practice and collaborating across regional ecosystems. Here’s what’s on the horizon for 2025: Launching our new website (hopefully in Jan🤞) to better showcase regional successes, share resources, and make it easier for clusters to connect and collaborate. Hosting a Cluster Conference in May—a national event designed to bring together tech organisations, policymakers, and industry leaders to share best practices and tackle shared challenges. Opening our membership more widely in January, welcoming not-for-profit or profit with purpose cluster orgs who share our vision for regional tech growth. We’re committed to ensuring that the UK’s tech future is shaped by the incredible work happening in every region—not just London and the South East. Together, we can drive innovation, strengthen local ecosystems, and create a more balanced, competitive tech sector. If you would like to learn more about our 2025 plans, we’d love to hear from you. #UKTech #RegionalGrowth #TechPolicy #Collaboration
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The UK Tech Clusters Group is a self-assembled group of individuals and organisations that represent geographical clusters of technology and digital businesses across the UK. The group meets regularly to discuss issues affecting regional technology clusters, and highlight opportunities at both a regional and national level. Working closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and other government departments, the UK Tech Clusters Group aims to highlight opportunities for national policy changes and innovative pilot programmes. It is able to provide both strategic insight and grass-roots level feedback on proposed activities, and to support the role out of new initiatives across the UK. The group is made up of representatives from Sunderland Software City, Generator, Sheffield Digital, Manchester Digital, Red Ninja, Innovation Birmingham Ltd, C4DI, ConnectTVT, Engine Shed, Big Learning Company, Tramshed Tech, Tech East, TechSPARK and Wired Sussex. The group is currently Chaired by Dr David Dunn, CEO of Sunderland Software City.
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This is a positive contribution to helping drive tech business growth across the UK. We agree with The Future Governance Forum that ‘place’ and ‘people’ matter for the success of our sector and thriving ecosystems. We look forward to working further with national and regional partners in 2025 at a critical juncture for driving growth and opportunity in our Clusters. UK Tech Cluster Group David Dunn Ben Shorrock Tim Robinson Mark John Mel Kanarek Karen Meechan Yiannis Maos MBE Stuart Clarke MBE Nigel Lambe
📣 Latest report from FGF with British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Boardwave sets out how government can unlock billions of investment and help transform start-up potential into scale-up success—driving growth across the economy. Read ‘Rebuilding the Nation 04: A Mountain to Scale’, written by Policy Associate Charlotte Holloway, today - or read on for more. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gZWGMzFU Two years ago, Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out her ambition to make Britain “the best place to start and grow a business.” However, while the UK excels at helping companies get off the ground, we too often struggle when it comes to scaling up. British firms today take almost twice as long to make the critical shift from £10 million to £100 million as their US counterparts, held back by a set of persistent barriers stunting their growth potential. These obstacles include: 💰 A funding gap as high as £15bn a year 📍 Significant regional imbalances, with more people employed by scale-ups in the South East than in the rest of England combined 👩🔬 Skills shortages, particularly in emerging tech like digital and AI Over the coming decade, the UK stands to lose out on billions of investment and substantial growth opportunities as high-potential firms are pushed to relocate abroad, taking IP, jobs, and innovation with them. Unless the government acts to address these barriers. A Mountain to Scale sets out how government can unlock greater investment and create the conditions for more UK start-ups to grow and thrive. It puts forward a series of actionable recommendations aimed at addressing the barriers stifling investment and scale-up growth. The paper calls on government to: 🎯 Ensure newly-unveiled pension ‘megafunds’ target investments into UK scale-ups 📈 Extend the Enterprise Investment Scheme to boost support for scale-ups 📊 Introduce a public procurement target for scale-ups to secure government contracts 🏙️ Make scale-ups central to regional industrial policy, building a ‘Scale-up Duty’ into new Local Growth Plans 🤖 Prioritise AI and digital upskilling in the Growth and Skills Levy 💬 Roll out mentoring and peer learning initiatives for scale-up leaders These proposals offer a roadmap for turning the UK’s start-up strengths into lasting scale-up success. By acting on them and fostering the right conditions for firms and investors, government can fuel productivity and deliver the long-term economic growth it has made its defining mission. For a quick summary of the report, its findings and recommendations, read Charlotte’s handy summary blog ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gyrzaeFc
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Last night, the UKTCG held a drinks reception in collaboration with Startup Coalition, as a fringe event for the Labour Party Conference 2024 in Liverpool. We welcomed MP for Vale of Glamorgan Kanishka Narayan who said that the Labour Government was committed to developing the tech industry in all nations and regions of the UK, and that these were exciting times for the sector. Chair of the UKTCG Katie Gallagher OBE and MD of Manchester Digital added that as a collective of regional tech clusters we were looking forward to working closely with the Labour government and our aims and objectives aligns with what the Government wants to do for the tech industry. We also heard from David Dunn, CEO of Sunderland Software City, who outlined the ‘Four Big Ideas’ from the UKTCG report which was launched earlier this year. They are: - We need more startups in order to create more scaleups - Focus on the talent pipeline to create growth - Better applied innovation to make sure the R&D we do actually makes an economic or societal difference - Digital adoption - making tech and digital an enabler, and not just a sector in its own right We’d also like to say a huge thanks to Dom Hallas and Startup Coalition for co-hosting the event for us - as well as all of our partners and friends for coming along.
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Katie Gallagher OBE, chair of the UKTCG and MD of Manchester Digital, said of the Spring Budget: "Although the Chancellor made encouraging noises about the tech sector’s importance to our regions and nations, there was little real investment to show for it in today's Budget announcement. New devolution deals and specific investments in green tech and manufacturing are encouraging, but ultimately, they are not amounts that move the needle. "It’s a relief to see the Government u-turn on angel investment rules, which would have made it even more difficult for women and other diverse founders and investors to be part of the investment ecosystem. Enabling more investment from pension funds and supporting tech businesses to list is a move in the right direction but a small part of the overall picture. "The recent EY Regional Economic Forecast makes clear that places with strong tech communities grow faster than those without. Focusing on building tech communities throughout the UK would make a real difference to the economy and people’s lives. "
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Read all about some of the most exciting businesses from across the region looking to raise in 2024! Our 2023 Annual Investment Report offers an overview of the key moments and raises from across the 2023 finance landscape 📈 Discovering the winners and losers in a transformative year for investment raising 👉 https://hubs.li/Q02jsdkP0 Big thank you to the sponsors and supporters of the report, TLT LLP, SETsquared Bristol & Engine Shed! 💙 #InvestmentMonth #InvestmentReport #SouthWestTech
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Have you downloaded your copy of the UK Tech Cluster Group's Ecosystems of Innovation report 🤩 The report is the start of the UKTCG's annual engagement process exploring the policies, reforms and ambition that are needed to unlock the potential of tech for all businesses, people and places. Download your copy of the report today 📑 https://hubs.li/Q02gX6zz0 #EcosystemsOfInnovation
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Another Friday means another #SouthWest #TechNews roundup 👏 top stories from this week include: 🚀 Coding Black Females is searching for SW companies to exhibit or speak at their #Bristol careers fair ✍ Digital skills platform for the next generation of tech leaders has been launched by Barclays Eagle Labs 💸 West of England Combined Authority announces £1m cash injection for the region's charities, third sector organisations & social enterprises 📲 Bristol-based #fintech Moneyhub teams up with VOXI GROUP to give customers 12 months of access to the financial wellness app for free 🤩 You can now check out the UK Tech Cluster Group's four big ideas to enable thriving #tech communities, which the team launched at Parliament ⚡ Creative technology agency, aer studios, welcomes new hires as the company prepares for a year of growth in 2024 Get more info on these highlights at techSPARK uk here: https://lnkd.in/eshmhsW5 Ben Shorrock Abigail Frear Lucy P. Ellie Cheetham Alex Holland Ben Webb Lauran Jenkins Ben Oliver Nathaniel Jackson Brittani Guerra Charly Patrick Lowri Milvana Hughes
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Huge thanks to Penny Horwood for coming along to our Parliamentary launch and writing an article for Computing about the launch of our new report 'Ecosystems of Innovation': https://lnkd.in/eydkVDbN #tech #digital #government
UK Tech Cluster Group calls for digital innovation policies to benefit all UK regions
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Thanks for sharing news about our report launch Robert Scammell, and for coming along.
UK tech policy must take regional and grassroots approach – report. 🔎 The UK must embrace a regional and grassroots approach to tech policy to unlock economic growth, a report has found. The UK Tech Cluster Group (UKTCG), an organisation representing tech hubs from every nation and region, has called on the government to adopt “Four Big Ideas”. #techpolicy #report #uk #techhubs #regions #economicgrowth #UKtech
UK tech policy must take regional and grassroots approach – report
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Yesterday the techSPARK team were at the House of Commons for the launch of the UK Tech Cluster Group's Ecosystems of Innovation report 🤩 The launch of the report is the start of the UKTCG's annual engagement process exploring the policies, reforms and ambition that are needed to unlock the potential of tech for all businesses, people and places. Download your copy of the report today 📑 https://hubs.li/Q02fY_SN0 #EcosystemsofInnovation
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