Your inward investment offer has to be crafted around your legitimate strengths, offer and potential. Any inward investor will filter whether your proposed site or location is suitable early on. One the one hand, sticking to what are known and demonstrable local strengths and niches. On the other hand – many corporations and the skills and talent they seek to attract are buying into ‘place values’ – in this case, a sustainable place that cares about and is investing in environmental sustainability.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐น๐๐ฑ๐ฒ:
Occupier-ready sites and premises for green industries and jobs
Where’s your green niche? Identify and articulate your localityโs skills, capabilities, infrastructure, assets, significant companies, innovations and/or technologies that confer an advantage in low carbon and environmental goods and services
What are your ‘green place values’ that will help attract corporates and talent? is it public and active transport infrastructure and services, green energy suppliers, major progress on retrofit?
In the long-term, sites will need to be able to be serviced by green energy, water recycling, and sustainable transport modes. Industrial sites and parks that can incorporate the circular economy will also become required.
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Tyne Powered is the brand concept used to promote the strategic sites portfolio in the North of Tyne area and provides sector-focused brochures for offshore wind and electrification.
Specialist green industry industrial parks are found throughout the UK in places such as Blyth, Stroud, Kent, and Bristol.
in 2022 Glasgow launched its ยฃ30bn ‘Greenprint for Investment’, a portfolio of transformative climate investment projects to boost 2030 Net-Zero goal – a Mix of market-ready opportunities for private capital and radical “unlock and scale” projects developed to appeal to activist investors seeking co-design and longer-term economic partnerships.
Invest in Amsterdam has showcased Circular renovation investments and opportunities.
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5. Beyond slogans: a grown-up conversation about UK industrial strategy (Article 5 of 5 on industrial policy)
The preceding four articles have sought to build perspectives on the role of industrial development in local and regional economies. In this final article. I tie this together by looking at the role of industrial policy and strategy. The perennial question for the UK:...
