Introduction to the Plymouth Marine & Maritime Cluster

Sector overview and investment & innovation strategies

Prof Martin J Attrill

Director, Plymouth University Marine Institutemattrill@plymouth.ac.uk@mjattrill

UK Marine Economy • 1 million employees• £46 bn to UK economy

UK Marine Industries• £7.6 bn sales revenue (£4 bn exports)• employ 105,000 people• world-class advanced manufacturing and

science base

Context: The UK Marine Economy

SW England as a centre for UK’s marine industry

28.5%

0.5%

3.1%

UK LEISURE, SUPERYACHT AND SMALLCOMMERCIAL MARINE INDUSTRY

• 3 largest fishing ports in England & Wales • >1000 registered fishermen• £244m to SW economy

• Tourism – primarily coastal • £830m pa spend in SW England• Highest in UK(Wales £193m, Scotland £94m)

Plymouth – centre of SW Marine Industry

Largest cluster of marine/maritime businesses in SW

>300 businesses

13,500 people employed (250,000 population)

World-renowned scientific and academic expertise

key to development of marine skills and business support

leading new green economy

Plymouth University

Within top 10 largest in UK; >30,000 students enrolled, 3,000 staff

World Top 300 2013; World Top 100 “under 50 years” 2012 & 2013

Top 5 World Green University 2012 (UI Greenmetric Ranking)

2011: Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Further & Higher Education:

“For education and research solutions for the global marine sector”

Plymouth University “The Enterprise University”: philosophy of working closely with business and industry & leading innovation

The Marine Institute: Scale & Activity

Only Institute in UK with the broad portfolio to cover all major marine areas:

All Sciences, Engineering, Technology, Navigation, Policy, Shipping, Business, Law, Sports, Arts, Maritime History - (Broadest in Europe)

180 academic staff; 250+ researchers; 2600 students (UK’s first and largest)

Internationalisation and commercialisation agendas

How compare with our competitors?

National Ranking of Plymouth University Marine Institute

Thomson ISI data. Search terms: marine, ocean, coast*, maritime, shore, shipping (Feb 2011)

Research Productivity: peer reviewed marine papers published

UK leading universities for number of “marine” publications

Rank Institution CountryNumber of Publications last 5

years1 University of Southampton UK 5812 University of Plymouth UK 5733 University of Cambridge UK 5664 University of Oxford UK 5265 University of East Anglia UK 4336 University of Bristol UK 4077 University of Newcastle UK 3428 University College London UK 3349 University of Aberdeen UK 330

10 University of Leeds UK 32111 University of Durham UK 30712 University of Edinburgh UK 29313 University of Bangor UK 29114 Imperial College London UK 27815 University of Liverpool UK 274

Plymouth & South West England Innovation & Investment Strategies

• The Growth Acceleration and Investment Network – GAIN

• A Growth Hub - An “innovation and enterprise eco-system” that:

• supports people with ideas, businesses that want to grow, and investors;

• joins up physical assets ensuring they are more than the sum of the parts;

• connects universities and colleges, innovation centres and science parks, centres of expertise and research with the region’s business base;

• Adds value to existing networks and projects, and joins up providers

Plymouth & South West England Innovation & Investment Strategies

• Founded and led by Plymouth University with Plymouth City Council and Tamar Science Park Ltd;

• A response to the lack of synergy in business support services and the needs of businesses;

• Originally focused on the unique role that an HEI can play at the heart of solutions for enterprising people and business.

Plymouth & South West England Innovation & Investment Strategies

• Plymouth City Deal

• City Deal is a UK government initiative to devolve economic decision-making to the UK regions (value £366 million, including liberated land).

• Plymouth’s City Deal will be focused on SW England becoming a world leader in the marine sector and a centre of world class businesses, innovation and knowledge.

• Facilities include a new University Technical College in Plymouth and a proposed peninsular-wide Marine Industries Production Campus in the Devonport dockyard.

• Partnership: City Council, Plymouth University, Local Enterprise Partnerships

• Marine Innovation Centre (MarIC)

• £2 million ERDF Business Technology Centre that provides support and advisory services to marine sector SMEs

• accelerating growth by creating intelligent connections between organisations, world-class knowledge, technologies, people and infrastructure

Plymouth & South West England Innovation & Investment Strategies

Plymouth…Britain’s Ocean City