As the UK Government launches the Local Innovation Partnership Fund and announces major changes to the Higher Education Innovation Fund, it is clear that universities are being asked to fundamentally sharpen their approach to driving economic growth. The Data City, Metro Dynamics and Favier Ltd have launched a new partnership to help universities answer the question: “what’s your university industrial strategy?”

In this interactive workshop, you’ll be able to see how institutions can access Real Time data to understand their innovation footprint by geography and by sector, before working with institutions to align this with 1) their future strategic direction across research, knowledge exchange, talent and capital development and 2) the economic priorities of both local, regional and national government. Using real-world examples from your universities, you’ll also be able to work through the process of identifying those “sweet-spots” where university economic intent matches local and national government priorities.