Business

Improving business performance in order to secure economic growth is a key priority for the NWDA and the region at large. To achieve this, the region needs to focus on seven key factors:

1. Developing new enterprise and growing existing companies
2. Developing higher added value activity in regional sectors
3. Innovation to improve productivity in all companies and to exploit the higher education base of the region
4. Exploiting the science/research and development base of the region.
5. Improving international competitiveness
6. Using ICT more effectively and efficiently
7. Focusing on sustainable consumption and production

In This Section

Find out more about the NWDA's work to provide effective and support to the region's businesses

• Business Link - delivering the region's Business Link service to provide a single, high-quality business support organisation
• Key Sectors in which the Agency undertakes sector development programmes
• Business Finance - providing business finance to help businesses start, expand and grow
• Information about the Business Support Simplification Programme
• Enterprise, including Local Enterprise Growth Initaitive (LEGI), Enterprising Britain, women's, black and minority ethnic (BME) and social enterprise
• International Competitiveness - attracting inward investment and helping businesses develop new markets
• Science and Innovation - encouraging innovation across the region
• Sustainable Consumption and Climate Change