#SuperCityNorth

Sheffield – Maker CityLeeds – Data City

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Investment opportunity

Metropolitan population of 4.8million, 155,000 SME’s22% of workforce in knowledge economy195,000 students, 55,000 graduates per year5million sqft of grade B & C office stock available at circa £10/sqftCost of living 60% lower than London2hrs travel to London by train (with coffee and wifi) 140,000 TMT workersICT salary costs 25% lower than LondonDigital Economy worth £3.4bn p/aUK leading quality of life and cost of living combination

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Quality of life???

40 mins from centre of Leeds30 mins from centre of Sheffield

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Some Established Players

Infrastructure

Telecoms & Healthtech

Sports Data & Gaming

ELearning & Digital Agencies

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Fintech

20 Years of cluster development

Health– NHS England, HQ in Leeds– NHS Spine– NSCIC – the data source for UK health

statistics– Smart City for Health & Innovation– University of Huddersfield 3MBic

hardware incubator– Bradford University Health2.0 Institute

Financial & Professional Services– 2nd largest UK financial and business

services hub in Leeds– 120,000 jobs in Financial & Professional

Services– HSBC European ICT HQ, HBOS,

Yorkshire Bank, Direct Line, DLA Piper, PWC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Arup, KPMG Innovation & Solutions Centre

Consumer Services– 20 years of leading the gaming industry

~ Rockstar, Sumo Digital & Sheffield Hallam University ACES faculty

– Elearning cluster catalysed by LearnDirect

– ISP & Telecoms cluster catalysed by PlusNet, EE, Vodafone, Dialogue and BT

– Digital Agency cluster in Leeds

Advanced Engineering – University of Sheffield AMRC– Advanced materials design &

development– University of Sheffield A.I. research, and

Big Data in Energy and Virtual Health, now teaching agile dev methodologies

– Leeds University Big Data Institute

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Some of our Rising Stars

Leeds

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Huddersfield

Connected super city:

• 15m Population in the m62 corridor

• Six high growth tier 2 cities & 2 global ports

• Transport modernisation programme committed anchored by Northern Rail Hub

• 400 years of importing talent and global export of goods and services

• 400k TMT workers, 40k engaged in TMT research and R&D

• 420k students, 80k studying computer science or engineering

At the heart of the original silicon valley

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Did we mention quality of life???

40 mins from centre of Leeds30 mins from centre of Sheffield

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Building on our assets

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• Sheffield– IoT Accelerator ~ Leveraging materials expertise and manufacturing

supply chains across the North– Social Enterprise Accelerator ~ Focusing on Health & Social Care,

eLearning and Voluntary communities across the North• Leeds

– MedTech Accelerator ~ Working with AHSNs and Healthtech supply chains across the North

– FinTech Accelerator ~ Leveraging the Financial services cluster in Leeds.• Manchester ~ Working in partnership with our red rose cousins, two more

accelerators coming soon……..• Entrepreneur Hubs ~ H.O.T’s agreed on Campus Sheffield (60k sqft),

negotiations ongoing on Campus Leeds (circa 100k sqft)• Entrepreneur Rail Pass ~ in development with East Midland Trains