The Manufacturing Technology Centre near Coventry is to open a new innovation and knowledge hub for metal additive manufacturing in a significant advance for the UK.

Ambitious plans for a major multi-million-pound city living development at the heart of City of Wolverhampton have moved onto the next stage.

Aston Law School, part of Aston University’s Business School in Birmingham, has welcomed Jonathan Fortnam as its new Dean.

Local entrepreneurs from some of the region’s fastest growing businesses took centre stage on Monday 23 September at an event organised by the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership (GBSLEP), to celebrate start up business success across Greater region.

HS2 will free up enough space on the existing railway network to improve rail services for 35 stations across the West Midlands region, technical analysis by Sub-national Transport Body Midlands Connect has revealed for the first time. 

West Midlands 5G (WM5G), a new organisation set-up by the region to deliver the first region-wide 5G testbed, has hosted a series of exciting 5G demonstrations in partnership with Birmingham City University and global telecommunications giant Ericsson.

A £126m battery facility to keep the West Midlands at the forefront of the automotive industry has been supercharged by an £18m grant from the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).

The Manufacturing Technology Centre is giving entrepreneurs, technologists and inventors the chance to pitch their innovative ideas on factory digitalisation to the UK's manufacturing decision makers.

PwC’s Transaction Services (TS) team completed market leading transformational transactions with a combined value in excess of £1.1bn across the Midlands region in 2019. 

Last week, I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Warwick for the annual British Science Festival. 

One year after the West Midlands was selected by the UK government to lead the country’s first multi-city 5G testbed, a discussion was held among tech industry experts to explore the uses for 5G and how the technology is set to evolve across the region.