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About North East England
Your guide to the North East
The North East economy has become one of the most dynamic in the UK and Europe, helped by massive investment in a new generation of advanced technologies. Its companies now serve expanding markets around the world with products exploiting those technologies.
More than £200 million has been invested in leading edge technologies in the past six years alone. These investments have focused on key priority sectors offering huge economic potential, with highly innovative collaborations taking place between companies and the North East’s universities.
The sectors include: process and chemical industries, healthcare and life sciences, new and renewable energy, automotive and advanced manufacturing, printable electronics and nanotechnology, digital and animation, and low carbon vehicles.
Centres of Excellence co-ordinate the commercial exploitation of breakthrough technologies and products emerging from R&D activities. Comprehensive funding streams, including significant venture capital funds and grants, support the priority sectors and have been designed to ensure continued business success.
Two international airports provide excellent connections into Europe, and the North East’s three main ports play a big role in making it one of the UK’s largest exporters. Good road networks throughout the North East link the major business and industrial centres with journey times of well under an hour.
The North East is made up of four areas, each with its own distinct focus of expertise:
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About North East England
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Support for Investors
- Advice on availability & costs of premises
- Assistance with grant applications
- Identification of R&D in your sector
- Property Solutions
- Market Validation
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Industry Support and Infrastructure
- Centres of Excellance & Clusters
- Universities
- Innovation Connectors
- R&D Facilities
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Skills and Expertise
- Overview of Skills and Experience
- Innovation Highlights
- Introduction to Our Key Sectors
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Financial Support
- Key Funding Channels
- Selective Finance for Investment
- Grants and Funding
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Premises and Locations
- Property Solutions
- Strategic Development Sites
- Managed Workspaces
- Incubators
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Transport Infrastructure
- By Air
- By Sea
- By Rail
- By Road
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Doing Business in the UK
- Understanding Tax
- Visas and Immigration
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Nissan is building a £200 million European battery plant in Sunderland. The North East will have the UK’s first comprehensive infrastructure of electric vehicle... 
Advanced technologies in wind and solar power generation have been created. Biofuels and biomass are rapidly expanding, and innovations in fuel cells... 
Huge offshore wind farms planned for the North Sea have placed North East England in an ideal position to manufacture large numbers of turbines for these farms. 
Driving this sector are pharmaceuticals, world beating stem cells and genetic research, drug discovery and protein diagnostic techniques... 
The digital games industry, with Digital City as a focus, is a driving force in the creative field, while Sage has a commanding position in software development. 
The North East has major base chemicals & petrochemical complexes, alongside fine & speciality chemicals & pharmaceuticals. Biotechnology... 
Automotive manufacturing dominates this sector – Nissan in cars, and Komatsu and Caterpillar in heavy earth-moving vehicles. Defence, aerospace and marine... 
World leading subsea technologies have been developed to extract deeper oil and gas reserves, the North East has major pipeline terminals, processing... 
North East England is leading the way with a technology that allows electronic circuits to be made using specially developed semi-conductive materials. 
Exciting developments are taking place in printed electronics, with PETEC, the national centre for this future industry, located in the North East. Nanotechnology... 
Knowledge intensive business services in areas such as finance, legal services, human resources, management consultancy and marketing are expanding... 