Capture UK Market Share & Achieve Rapid Growth
All through The Global Growth Programme, a unique, fully funded UK market entry support solution, bespoke for your high growth tech company.
Quickly scale up in the UK
The programme gives you the expertise and resources to realise your ambitions and quickly scale up in the United Kingdom. Join the UK’s fastest-growing cluster of technology companies and a vast network of innovators working on next-generation projects.
With eleven science parks, nine world-class academic institutions and a powerhouse of tech hubs and accelerators, there’s no better place in the UK than the West Midlands to develop new technologies and the high-growth industries of the future.
Develop, Test & Scale Exciting New Technologies
Gain an edge over your competitors by locating at one of six world-class innovation hubs across the West Midlands, where you’ll receive nine months of fully funded desk space for up to three employees.
Receive specialist assistance setting up your UK subsidiary and implementing your market entry plan, along with access to collaboration opportunities with an unrivalled network of innovation partners.
We’ll help you validate your ‘go to market’ approach for the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as build local business contacts, enabling you to develop a high-quality commercial pipeline.
You’ll also benefit from strategic relationships with businesses and institutions that can offer access to skills, talent, innovative research and investment.
All vital to driving business success.
Apply for the Global Growth Programme today.
Please complete the form below to register your interest.
Metaverse training company Skillveri’s success
Skillveri is a leading metaverse training platform for high-precision skills in the engineering and manufacturing sectors. Their simulators leverage cutting edge VR to go beyond real-world training, with detailed assessment and analytics for continuous improvement. They joined our 2023 cohort.
Being part of the West Midlands Global Growth Programme gave us a real head-start on our UK growth journey … [it] has helped us to hit the ground running and thrive in the region from day one.
“With our target customers spread widely across England and Scotland, it made perfect sense to position ourselves in the West Midlands – right at the heart of the UK. As well as being extremely well connected to other major UK cities by road and rail, Birmingham was a much more cost-competitive option than the likes of London.
Being part of the West Midlands Global Growth Programme gave us a real head-start on our UK growth journey. Having access to free desk space at Bruntwood SciTech – where we had dedicated consultancy and networking opportunities on our doorstep – has helped us to hit the ground running and thrive in the region from day one.”
Establish and scale rapidly at the heart of the UK
The Global Growth Programme is a unique UK market entry offering designed to help international companies invest, establish and scale rapidly at the heart of the United Kingdom.
Benefit from specialist sector-specific support programmes for the CleanTech, Creative & Digital Technologies, Future Mobility and HealthTech/MedTech sectors.
Whatever your sector, the Global Growth Programme offers a wealth of benefits for high-growth businesses:
- Reinvest the money you save from benefiting from our free nine-month desk space into developing your product and service, getting you market-ready quickly
- Thanks to our expert assistance and support, there is no stress navigating the challenges of setting up in the UK
- Sector specialist guidance to identify the most effective approach to market and expert advice on tailoring an effective UK market entry plan
- Quickly immerse yourself in the West Midlands business ecosystem, building the critical relationships you need to give your business the best possible start
- Direct links to globally renowned universities and institutes, enabling opportunities to engage in unprecedented R&D projects and collaborate on pioneering research
- Protect your IP with access to specialist advice on patents and copy, both in the UK and internationally
- Advice and help preparing to raise Series A+ funding and introductions to local VCs and the investment community
What you’ll get from the programme
Register your interest in participating in the Global Growth Programme to benefit from the unique UK market entry support on offer to international businesses:
- Fully funded desk space* in West Midlands’ Innovation Districts, with regular networking events
- Specialist legal and tax advice for setting up UK company entities or relocating global headquarters
- Support for relocation and acclimation to UK living and working
- Become part of an international tech community
- Expert assistance in market testing and entry validation
- Introductions to UK-West Midlands Business Networks
- Collaboration opportunities with corporate partners, research facilities, and regulatory specialists
- Preparation and access to growth funding
- Access to healthcare networks** for HealthTech/MedTech firms
- Connections to headhunting firms and university recruitment
- Amplified company communications in the West Midlands and UK market
*for nine months for up to three employees.
**including leading hospitals, clinicians and the NHS.
Apply for the Global Growth Programme today
Submit your information to register, and a member of our team will get back to you.
Places are limited. We seek cutting-edge businesses leading their sector and have a strong fit with the West Midlands.
We are looking for:
- A foreign-owned business: Your business must either be a wholly owned subsidiary/branch of a non-UK company OR a UK company with least 10% of the shareholding held by a non-UK organisation
- A technology-led business operating in either the Future Mobility, CleanTech, HealthTech/MedTech, or Digital Technology (e.g. FinTech, EdTech) sectors