Stories Driven by change

Sector: Life sciences & healthcare innovation
Salford named UK’s most entrepreneurial city
Advanced materials & manufacturing , Creative & media , Digital, cyber & AI , Financial, professional, business services , Life sciences & healthcare innovation , Low carbon , Real Estate
Salford is officially the UK's most entrepreneurial city, with its concentration of small businesses increasing by 15.4% in the last…

Manchester’s Sister and Dublin’s Guinness Enterprise Centre Sign MoU Partnership
Creative & media , Digital, cyber & AI , Life sciences & healthcare innovation , Place
Sister, Manchester’s £1.7bn innovation district, and Guinness Enterprise Centre (GEC), a world-leading incubation space for startups based in Dublin, Ireland,…

Health Innovation Bolton partners sign landmark Partnership Agreement
Life sciences & healthcare innovation , Place
A Partnership Agreement has been agreed between the partners committed to bringing forward the transformational Health Innovation Bolton (HIB) initiative.…

Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026
Life sciences & healthcare innovation
Join leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry. Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 The Women’s Health Technology…

Innovation Festival
Advanced materials & manufacturing , Digital, cyber & AI , Education & skills , Life sciences & healthcare innovation
Through hands-on workshops, live demonstrations, awards, talks and networking events, the Festival will showcase Manchester's vibrant, globally connected innovation ecosystem…

Boost for Northern knowledge economy as Bruntwood SciTech completes Greenheys
Advanced materials & manufacturing , Digital, cyber & AI , Life sciences & healthcare innovation
Bruntwood SciTech, the UK’s largest property platform dedicated to the growth of tech, innovation and science sectors, has surpassed a…

Major job creation helps Manchester to become one of the
Creative & media , Digital, cyber & AI , Education & skills , Financial, professional, business services , Life sciences & healthcare innovation , Low carbon
Manchester and the city region remain one of the fastest growing and most productive big city economies in the UK…

Why the UK’s nuclear medicine future will be built in
Life sciences & healthcare innovation
Manchester is one of the few UK city regions well placed to progress nuclear medicine capability, and for US companies…

Manchester ranked UK’s best performing city for FDI outside London
Advanced materials & manufacturing , Creative & media , Digital, cyber & AI , Financial, professional, business services , Life sciences & healthcare innovation , Low carbon
The North West remained one of the UK’s top four regions for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in 2025…











