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Find UK innovation clusters

This tool maps innovation clusters across the UK.

The UK research, development and innovation (RDI) ecosystem is made up of clusters. These are groups of firms, research capabilities, skills, and related industries that benefit from being based in the same location.

This map helps people such as investors, businesses, researchers and local government policymakers to explore these clusters.

You can use the filters to focus on different sectors and technologies and find information such as:

  • public funding flows
  • turnover data

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Background

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) created this map in partnership with Cambridge Econometrics, the Data City and the Innovation Caucus.

The map give the most comprehensive picture possible of company-level innovation activity in the UK. The data and approach it uses are experimental.

Updates to this page

Published 9 February 2024

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