Breaking down barriers: Powering up investment and innovation to drive growth for LCR’s people and places
On Tuesday 21st April, the Liverpool City Region APPG held an important session in Westminster, focusing on how we can break down the barriers across Liverpool to power up investment and innovation and drive growth for LCR’s people and places.
Chaired by LCR APPG Officer, Lord Hunt of Wirral, the session featured a keynote speech from Minister of State - and Liverpool City Region MP - Alison McGovern, alongside contributions from Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology, Dame Chi Onwurah.
The session focused on how we can go further to unlock investment and power up innovation in the context of the Mayoral 10 year plan for prosperity, regional innovation clusters, life sciences and manufacturing and citywide regeneration.
We were joined by a fantastic panel of industry experts including:
Professor Richard Black, Provost & Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool
Dr Rick Holland, Deputy Director of Place, Innovate UK
Emily Robson, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Knowledge Quarter Liverpool
Massimo Noro, Business Development Director, UKRI-STFC
Professor Chris White, Chief Advisor, MTC
Our expert panel highlighted the need for increased capital spending on infrastructure to support and grow the LCR innovation and investment ecosystem, championed by greater investment visibility for businesses and innovators to unlock greater private investment - through the LCR narrative of place. They also maintained the need to increase current R&D and facilities capacity to support businesses through their journey and scale up, helping to retain local talent and knowledge bases.
We were also joined by a number of Liverpool City Region MPs and Peers including:
Lord Birt
Lord Watts
Patrick Hurley MP.
Key Messages from the session:
Click below to read the full session minutes
