Unlock Global Opportunities from the Heart of the UK
All through The Global Growth Programme, a unique, fully funded UK market entry support solution, bespoke for your exciting, early-stage 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.
Our programme offers expert support in setting up and testing your proposition and business model, as well as securing the valuable seed funding required to get your ideas off the ground.
You can take advantage of high-spec hot-desk and co-working spaces, tailored business advice and connections to a network of research data and facilities, all designed to help bring your ambition and vision to life.
Developing a ground-breaking new technology? We’ll support you in taking the necessary steps to protect your Intellectual Property.
Apply for the Global Growth Programme today.
Please complete the form below to register your interest.
Urban air mobility company Bellwether’s success
Bellwether Industries is a pioneering urban air mobility company from Taiwan, providing ultimate solutions for accessible personal flight in cities. They joined our 2023 cohort.
The best thing about being part of the West Midlands Global Growth Programme was having around-the-clock access to bespoke consultancy, from our base at Bruntwood SciTech innovation hub.
These conversations enabled us to quickly add value to our business model by identifying partnership and networking opportunities in the local ecosystem.
“The West Midlands’ unique combination of an established manufacturing heritage and world-class strengths in emerging technologies made it the obvious location for us to test and scale our innovative eVTOL solutions.
In particular, a key highlight of the Programme was being invited to attend the Future Mobility event at Commonwealth Games business conference, UK House, where we made valuable connections with local universities and key players in the global Clean Tech industry.”
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 early-stage businesses:
- Reinvest the money you save from benefitting from our free nine-months desk space into developing your product and service, getting you market-ready quickly.
- Gain peace of mind that your ideas will be protected with access to intellectual property specialists, and advice on patents and copyright, both in the UK and internationally
- Receive support in preparing to raise initial seed funding, with introductions to local angel and early-stage funding networks
- Support in shaping your proposition and business model with help on defining how you will commercialise your technology, allowing you to enter the UK market confidentially.
- Benefit from expert advice to tailor 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.
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
- Guidance in shaping your proposition and business model, helping to define the commercialisation of your technology
- Expert assistance in market testing and entry validation
- Introductions to UK-West Midlands Business Networks
- Access to intellectual property specialists to secure your IP
- Collaboration opportunities with corporate partners, research facilities, and regulatory specialists
- Access to specialists in regulation to assist you in securing UK accreditation
- Preparation and access to seed 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