Leading companies and universities have urged Sir Keir Starmer to turn the Oxford and Cambridge region into the “crown jewel” of European innovation, in a revival of stalled efforts to create a British rival to Silicon Valley.
Investment in transport links, financial incentives and research space is needed to capitalise on the area’s “unmatched density” of enterprise, according to a letter to the prime minister whose signatories include AstraZeneca, Airbus and software company Aveva.
The lobbying effort to create a scientific “supercluster” comes after the previous Conservative government shelved a strategic project to create an “Oxford-Cambridge arc”, focusing instead on pledges to “level up” spending in the north of England.
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