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A landmark innovation deal was signed today that paves the way for greater co-operation between two of the world’s most famous port cities. Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Park Heong-Joon, Mayor of Busan Metropolitan City in South Korea, aimed at enhancing ‘mutual understanding, prosperity and friendship’. The …
Glass Futures, an innovative research and technology centre that will help decarbonise the global glass industry, has officially opened in St Helens. The £54m Glass Futures Global Centre of Excellence will feature a unique experimental furnace and other technology that will pioneer ways of making carbon neutral glass. Learning from the facility could help decarbonise …
The scaling diagnostic development and laboratory service provider expands their UK operations, bringing LSP’s lab occupancy to 100%. Having launched its first permanent UK Laboratory in October 2022 at Liverpool Science Park (LSP), Pierian Biosciences has now signed a lease for a second CAT-2 laboratory within the Sciontec Developments Limited (Sciontec) owned innovation centre. Now …
Cashplus Bank, the leading digital SME bank, has today announced the expansion of its Liverpool office, with plans to double its presence in the Northwest over the next five years. Based at The Spine in Paddington Village, which sits within the Knowledge Quarter Liverpool Innovation District, the move will create around 150 new jobs in …
Invest Liverpool City Region are delighted to be attending UK REiiF from 16-18 May 2023, at Leeds Royal Armouries. By attending, we’ll showcase what Liverpool City Region can offer to an audience of key players, developers and decision makers within the property and investment industry. Liverpool City Region provides a highly-attractive business environment for ambitious …
Are you visiting Liverpool City Region for Eurovision? Get ready to immerse yourself in the UK’s most exciting city. Whether it’s access to skilled employees, a thriving hub of culture, or world-leading innovation in a place committed to a greener, more sustainable future, you’ll find it all in Liverpool City Region. If you’ve been inspired …
Peel L&P’s flexible workspace concept, ARRIVE, has landed at Princes Dock, Liverpool Waters. The circa £500,000 transformation of the ground floor of No. 10 Princes Dock in to a flexible, managed workspace for start-ups and small to medium enterprises opened to the public yesterday (26 April). ARRIVE’s expansion into Liverpool follows on from its success …
A new project has been announced that will involve the first ever detailed analysis of the FinTech ecosystem in the Liverpool City Region. The initiative will be a collaboration across organisations from the public and private sector, as well as higher education. The project will be led and delivered by Whitecap Consulting, the regional strategy consultancy …
Award-winning development studio, Milky Tea, has todayannounced a new partnership with the video gaming group, Aonic, who have acquired amajority stake in the company. This new partnership will support Milky Tea in developing its own in-house gamingintellectual property, whilst also expanding its operations. After previously working on thesuccessful Apple Arcade launch title, HyperBrawl Tournament, the …
Applications for a new northern-based accelerator, Baltic Ventures, have officially opened for early-stage tech companies to apply for their first programme, ‘Accelerator 2023’. Each successful applicant will receive equity backing and access to unrivalled expert mentoring. In 2022, Beauhurst found that 50% of announced equity deals and 69% of investment was deployed in London-based tech …
Leaders from Liverpool City Region’s Life Sciences community join forces to showcase expertise at World Vaccine Congress 2023 in Washington. Industry leaders from Liverpool City Region and representatives from the Invest Liverpool City Region team at Growth Platform are joining forces to highlight the region’s global life sciences expertise at this year’s World Vaccine Congress …
The North of England’s ever sharpening focus on innovation-led businesses is set totake another step forward as the second phase of Violet, a c.£20million speculativedevelopment at the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus, goes before planners for detailedconsent. The project is set to deliver a further c.80,000 sq ft gross of innovation real estate toLiverpool City Region, including …
