Transcript Increase GDP - Highlands and Islands Enterprise

The Beechwood Campus Development
Ruaraidh MacNeil
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Why here, why now?
Inverness Campus
P4 Digital Healthcare Convention
1st October 2010
Ambitious for Scotland
Sustainable Economic Growth…
Demographic change
• Access to high quality Higher Education
• 2,500 to 4,500 increase in HE students
• Opportunities for all
Increase GDP
• New businesses
• Increased GVA £38m pa.
• Better career prospects: 6,000 new jobs
Vision - Function
• A place to collaborate
• A place for learning
• A place where knowledge
is created
• A place for enterprise
• A place to live
• A place for leisure
Vision - Ethos
Visionary
Flexible
Sustainable
Inspiring
Flowing
Open
Vibrant
Connected
Welcome
Stimulating
Human Scale
Safe
Ambitious for Scotland
Ambitious for Scotland
Proposed development
• 215 Acres
• Phase I - 55,000sq.m. of development
• Phases II & III – 70,000sq.m.
• Education, research, sport & leisure and business
• Highly collaborative environment
Partnership Forum
Key Project
Inverness College, UHI
• 20,000 sq.m.
Development
• FE & HE Education,
training, research
• “Hub” facilities, café,
business incubators etc.
• Opening summer 2014
Key Project
Scottish Agricultural College
• 2,000 sq.m.
• Veterinary Services,
Research and Business
Consultancy
• Growth aspirations
• Open 2014
Key Project
Social Enterprise Hotel
• 6,000 sq.m.
• Fully operational Hotel
• Short-stay “social
accommodation”
• Employment and
Training for the
disadvantaged
Other Elements
• Science and Technology
Park, including business
incubators
• Sport Centre and playing
fields
• Student Accommodation
• Community/Arts Facilities
Scale of Initial Phase I
Investment
Timescale
HIE Phase I Investment
£30.45m
2010-14
~£60m
2012-14
SAC
~£5m
2012-14
Social Enterprise Hotel
~£9m
2013-14
~£10m
2014-15
£10–25m
2014-20
TBC
Post 2018
Inverness College
CfHS Phase IV
Sports
New Railway Crossing
Total
£130m plus
Opportunities for Business Community
• Expansion of Life Science cluster
• Knowledge creation, transfer, incubation and
commercialisation
• High Value inward investment
• Investment – CfHS Phase IV, student
accommodation, services
• Sponsorship - PhD’s, student placements, public art,
research, sport
The way forward – Public/Private Sector
Collaboration
•
Lifescan, SAMs, EMEC
•
Commonality of issues & opportunities
•
Sharing of ideas, knowledge, people
and resources
Making it Happen
Collaboration
+
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Ambition
Leadership
= World Class
Ambitious for Scotland