Northwest Science Council
The Northwest Science
Council is a partnership of leading business, academic
and economic development organisations committed to establishing a
common vision for science in the region and developing strategy to
make things happen.
Chaired by Mr Roger Platt, the Council is working to build
England's Northwest into something special in science.
The Northwest Science Council brings together business,
university and science partners in the region to promote England's
Northwest as a world-class area for science, attract investment and
talent and drive innovation.The aims of the Science Council over
the next 3 - 5 years are to:
- Grow and maintain world-class infrastructure for the academic
and industry base.
- Enhance the creation and transfer of knowledge.
- Develop, attract and retain high quality people.
- Close the R&D funding gap between private and public
sector.
- Promote the image of the Northwest as a vibrant hotbed of
scientific endeavour
In order to deliver these aims, the Council will work
through partnership among all the elements of the science base. In
the Northwest, more than elsewhere, the private sector accounts for
the lion's share of R&D investment and public-private
partnership is vital. There is a dynamic interplay between the
components and each feeds off the other. The regional science
partners are the region's leading science-based companies, its
universities, the regional NHS and hospital trusts, and research
organisations.
Visit the Northwest
Science website