A key theme that emerged on day two of the conference was that of collaboration and partnership being critical catalysts for innovation and growth. Business clusters – anchored by world-class companies and institutions – are engines of economic growth.
The main theme of Day One of the Conference was innovation and ingenuity.
On Day Two, partnership and collaboration…and what better example of partnerships helping our innovation sector and economy to be greater than the sum of their parts, than clusters.
As CBI President Brian McBride said in his keynote address:
We already have powerful examples of the kind of partnerships we need in our economic clusters across the regions and nations of the UK.
Take the Humber industrial cluster - one o