Innovation for Productivity

Working with partners, we’re driving innovation and productivity to give businesses the edge. Ambitious plans, made together.

We're supporting businesses across South Yorkshire through our research collaborations, access to translational facilities, and provision of skills development - nurturing the conditions for more breakthroughs and enabling partners to develop more nationally significant clusters of innovation-led industries across the region.

Shaping the South Yorkshire economy

We’re supporting industry collaborations to drive innovation, productivity and growth across the region - the Managing Directors' Club provides a networking forum for sharing knowledge and ideas between businesses and academics.

The MD Club

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC)

The University AMRC’s work and its partnerships are helping to attract major investment in the region providing a tremendous boost - driving productivity and attracting multinational manufacturers like Boeing and McLaren, linking them up to local supply chains.

Growing ambitions

Two people stand in front of engineering equipment, looking at documents in their hands.

Sheffield Innovation Programme

Sheffield Innovation Programme (SIP) is a regional initiative which aims to stimulate business growth and promote the development of long-term relationships with SMEs; this is achieved by providing access to a broad range of academic expertise and university facilities.

Creating innovative solutions

ACSE students working on a project at a PC in a lab

Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy (SELA)

We’re working with industry partners across the region to address the UK skills gap in engineering by supplementing students' technical knowledge with the skills, confidence and aptitude they need to make a positive impact.

Developing the leaders of tomorrow

Driving technology adoption

Focusing on South Yorkshire, the Regional Technology Foresight project is a two-year ESRC-funded project aimed at identifying the future technologies that will have the greatest impact on advanced manufacturing and materials sectors in Sheffield, and at building a consensus about how best to adapt and exploit these technologies.

Regional Technology Foresight project

Student at Magnomatics — Anjali Manoj, Mechanical Engineering Student

Supporting local industry partners

Partnerships with local businesses provide a pipeline of talent for them to draw upon, alongside access to world-leading facilities and expertise. Student placements at local engineering company, Magnomatics, support their skills needs whilst research collaborations place them at the forefront of technology development in their field.

Our industry case studies