Where cutting-edge ideas shape the future

Welcome to Britain's Fastest Growing Region

Home to a burgeoning population and vibrant economy, this is Britain's fastest growing region. Ideas, commerce, progress – these are the building blocks on which the UK's pioneering heartland are built upon. Because where innovation thrives, people thrive.

Accentuated by London, a global finance and creative tech hub, and Cambridge, a platinum-grade knowledge hub with more patents than anywhere else in the UK, the region is uniquely knitted together with cutting-edge clusters of commercial innovation. Advanced technology, bioscience – this is the place of future-proof industry, the driving force of the UK economy.

Connecting Ideas, Talent, Enterprise

The Innovation Corridor is a dynamic ecosystem of international businesses, maverick academics, ambitious start-ups, City finance and law firms, all cross-pollinating to accelerate their success. It is a symbiotic network of supply chains that reaches out beyond the region, throughout the UK and around the globe, making The Innovation Corridor a highly advanced sci-tech superhighway.

The secret to the region's success is its connectivity. Location is everything. And the Innovation Corridor resides at a pivotal spot in the world, making it the chosen place for entrepreneurs, intellectuals and investors to congregate. The city axis of London and Cambridge – only 60 miles apart, hot-linked by the M11 motorway, and 1 hour by train – is networked with prized international rail and flight links. Stansted Airport – serving 180 destinations in 38 countries, sits at the heart, with London City Airport and St Pancras International, all connecting the region with the rest of the world.

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A springboard to the future

The future is being created here every day in universities, R&D labs and in the minds of visionary entrepreneurs. This is the historic birthplace of DNA discovery, the place in which the first ever computer programme was invented, and the contemporary catalyst for Google's DeepMind collaboration with UCL – poised to develop a new dawn in cancer treatment, thanks to artificial intelligence.

The zenith of pioneering knowledge

Before innovation, there is knowledge. Information unlocked by the brightest minds - and The Innovation Corridor is home to them. This long heritage of radical thinking and discovery supports the disruptive nature of innovation. It enables businesses to tap in to a trove of cutting-edge knowledge, embrace new challenges, develop and evolve.

Thousands of knowledge-intensive companies occupy this region, together with state-of-the-art super-labs, the most renowned universities, and one of the largest biomedical R&D clusters in the world – all creating extraordinary potential in the realms of bioscience and advanced technology.