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UK Innovation Zones

Ecosystem directory

Britain's innovation economy.

Mapped. Connected. Searchable.

Find the investors, companies, universities, research organisations and infrastructure helping build what comes next. Every record carries its sources and a verification date.

Living dataset

173 organisations and assets mapped.

42 Investors · 61 Companies · 22 Universities · 27 Research organisations · 21 Infrastructure assets

  • Last ecosystem update: 15 August 2026
  • 125 records verified this week

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42

Investors

Venture, growth, corporate venture, university funds, angel networks and government-backed capital.

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61

Companies

Start-ups, scale-ups, spin-outs, established companies and international operations in the UK.

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22

Universities

Research strengths, innovation centres, specialist facilities and commercialisation routes.

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21

Infrastructure

Laboratories, prototyping and manufacturing facilities, testbeds, campuses, science parks and incubators.

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27

Research

Research institutes, Catapult centres, Innovation & Knowledge Centres and national laboratories.

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Where a category reads "coverage expanding", UKIZ has not yet mapped enough of it to publish a number. That describes the directory, not the country — a thin count is a data gap until research proves it is an ecosystem gap.

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How this directory is maintained

Records come from the organisation's own published material and authoritative public sources such as UKRI and the Companies House register. Where something is not published, we leave it blank rather than estimate it.

Every record carries a last-verified date. Anyone can propose a correction, a new organisation or a missing cluster, and every submission is reviewed before it appears.

There is no paid placement and no sponsored ranking. Inclusion and ordering are based on relevance to the question being asked, never on payment or relationship.

Directory last verified: 15 August 2026

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