• News
  • Events
  • Case Studies
  • Publications
  • Press Office
  • Contact
OxLEP OxLEP OxLEP OxLEP
  • About
    • About OxLEP
    • About Oxfordshire
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Our Programmes
      • Local Growth Fund
      • City Deal
      • Growing Places Fund
      • European Funding
    • Our Strategies
      • Our Strategic Economic Plan (SEP)
      • Innovation Strategy
      • Skills Strategy
      • Environmental Strategy
      • Infrastructure Strategy (OxIS)
    • Our Governance
      • Our Structure
      • Meetings
        • Past Meetings
      • Sub-committee
      • Oxfordshire Skills Board
      • Oxfordshire Growth Board
      • Key Policies & By-laws
    • Local Industrial Strategy
    • Vacancies
      • Innovation Support for Business Programme Assistant
    • The LEP Network
  • Skills
    • Our Approach
    • Our Programmes
      • Apprenticeships
      • Work Experience
      • Enterprise Advisors
      • Careers & Enterprise Mentoring
      • Community Employment Plans
    • Education & Business
    • Skills and Labour Market Information
  • Business
    • Our Approach
    • Growth Hub
      • Get Connected
        • Network Navigators
        • Mentoring
        • Local Business Groups
        • Find National Help
      • Grow a Business
      • Start a Business
    • Funding & Grants
    • Invest in Oxfordshire
      • Business in Oxfordshire
      • About Oxfordshire
      • Commercial Property
      • Investment Support
        • China Prospectus
        • China Prospectus
        • Living in Oxfordshire
        • Professional Service Providers
      • Sectors
        • Automotive & Motorsport
        • Creative & Digital
        • Life Sciences
        • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
        • Space-Led Data Applications
    • Innovation
    • eScalate
    • Brexit
  • News
  • Events
  • Case Studies
  • Publications
  • Press Office
  • Contact

Search form

News

You are here

  • Home
  • News
  • OxLEP takes Oxfordshire’s global opportunities to Westminster audience

OxLEP uses cookies to capture data, allowing us to improve our site experience for everyone.

To learn about how we use cookies please visit our privacy policy

Posted on 11th September 2018

OxLEP takes Oxfordshire’s global opportunities to Westminster audience

OxLEP takes Oxfordshire’s global opportunities to Westminster audience

Oxfordshire is ‘very much open for business’ – that was the strong message OxLEP took to Central London earlier today (11 September) as it staged its first-ever House of Commons breakfast briefing event.

It was the first of four economic briefings lined-up for London over the next 12 months, which sees OxLEP ‘taking the Oxfordshire economy’ to a national stage, fronted by the four transformative technologies highlighted in last year’s Science and Innovation Audit for the county.

Hosted by North Oxfordshire MP – Victoria Prentis MP – on behalf of all Oxfordshire MPs, the briefing was led by Professor Paul Newman of the University of Oxford, leader of the Oxford Robotics Institute and founder of its spin-out, Oxbotica – a pioneering autonomous vehicle developer based at Culham Science Centre.

Oxbotica has promised trials of their autonomous vehicles on the M40 between Oxford and London during 2019.

Around 65 guests attended the exclusive event, including investors, foreign embassy representatives and companies working in AI and autonomous vehicle technologies.

Each briefing will highlight a transformative technology and how it could bring major global opportunities to Oxfordshire.

The county’s Science and Innovation Audit has suggested that Autonomous Vehicles, Space and Satellites, Quantum Computing and Digital Health has the potential to add £180billion GVA growth to the UK economy by 2030.

And, with world-class research and development capabilities that benefits both the regional and national economy, OxLEP emphasised that Oxfordshire is a key driver of ‘UK PLC’.

Nigel Tipple – chief executive of OxLEP – said: “The key message we took to our first House of Commons briefing was that we are very much open for business.

“With a GVA of £23billion per annum, we are one of only three net contributors to the Exchequer and – being home to two of the UK’s 13 ‘unicorn’ ($1 billion) tech businesses in Oxford Nanopore and the Milton Park-based Immunocore – we have a track record of nurturing genuine innovation and taking it to a world-stage.

“Oxfordshire is recognised globally as a place that can support innovation-led growth, greater productivity and major ‘place potential’ as we move towards an ever-increasing internationally-focussed economy.”

The next House of Commons breakfast briefing will take place on 15 January, with a focus on space-led data applications.

Pictured above: Adrian Bedford from the Oxford-based StreetDrone, outside the Houses of Parliament with OxLEP's Sebastian Johnson, Ahmed Goga and Nigel Tipple.

Rob Panting

By Rob Panting 150 articles

robert.panting@​oxfordshirelep.com
01865 897195
07748 333402

Other General News

12th December 2019

Oxford Bus Company's PickMeUp service to expand into Horspath

12th December 2019

VLOG- The Oxfordshire Visitor Economy: Opportunities for rural businesses

12th December 2019

Insider - Autumn 2019 edition

10th December 2019

VLOG- The Oxfordshire Energy Strategy: Best-performing economies

10th December 2019

GUEST BLOG: Companies making the transition to electric vehicle fleets will play a key role in achieving the Oxfordshire Energy Strategy vision

5th December 2019

VLOG- The Oxfordshire Energy Strategy: Clean growth

Stay up to date on the latest stories and events with our newsletter

Sign Up
youtubetwitterlinkedinfacebookinstagram
  • About
    • About OxLEP
    • About Oxfordshire
    • Our Team
    • Our Board
    • Our Programmes
    • Our Strategies
    • Our Governance
    • Local Industrial Strategy
    • Vacancies
    • The LEP Network
  • Skills
    • Our Approach
    • Our Programmes
    • Education & Business
    • Skills and Labour Market Information
  • Business
    • Our Approach
    • Growth Hub
    • Funding & Grants
    • Invest in Oxfordshire
    • Innovation
    • eScalate
    • Brexit
OxLEP Ltd, First Floor, Jericho Building, City of Oxford College Campus, Oxpens Road, Oxford, OX1 1SA
info@​oxfordshirelep.com
0345 241 1196
  • News
  • Events
  • Case Studies
  • Publications
  • Press Office
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
© 2019 OxLEP
Website by Indulge