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UKIZUK Innovation ZonesA TAIU initiative

UKIZ/EVIDENCE · ADDITIONALITY

What happens because UKIZ exists?

A credible intervention must create value that would not otherwise occur. If the honest answer is that the activity would have happened anyway — or happened elsewhere in Britain — that is not additionality, and it is not a reason to intervene.

Proposed by UKIZ · independent · not a government designation

The test

  1. 01Without UKIZWhat is likely to happen anyway, under current programmes, capital and market conditions?
  2. 02With UKIZWhat specific additional activity is hypothesised, and by when?
  3. 03Evidence requiredHow would that difference be tested, measured and independently challenged?

Every mission carries this test. Applied per mission in stage 2B.

What counts

Potential additional outcomes

  • New collaboration between organisations that were not previously working together
  • New commercialisation of research that was not reaching the market
  • New investment into British companies
  • New companies formed
  • New corporate and customer relationships
  • New infrastructure where none existed and demand is demonstrated
  • International R&D investment attracted into the UK
  • Scale-ups retained in Britain that would otherwise have relocated
  • Exports that would not otherwise have been won
  • Cross-cluster projects that no single ecosystem could deliver
  • Faster commercialisation from research to revenue

What does not count

  • Moving a company from one UK city to another
  • Subsidising activity that would have occurred anyway
  • Duplicating an existing programme
  • Building property without demonstrated demand
  • Crowding out private investment
  • Political distribution without economic logic
  • Permanent subsidy dependency

Outputs are not outcomes

Track both. Never confuse them.

Outputs

  • Meetings held
  • Events hosted
  • Members registered
  • Reports published
  • Introductions made

Outcomes

  • Investment attracted
  • Companies created and scaled
  • IP commercialised
  • Corporate contracts won
  • Exports
  • High-productivity employment
  • Manufacturing capability created
  • Economic additionality
Where additionality could fail →