Our Peninsula Research & Innovation Partnership (PRIP) unites our innovation ecosystem through a shared strategy, and collective resources, to harness innovation firepower within and outside the region.

The PRIP brings together our three ICSs, two major universities, Health Innovation Network, and NIHR-funded research infrastructure to strengthen the conditions for research and innovation and leverage investment into the region. This will result in us being able to address major health challenges faster and on a greater scale, and importantly to deploy our innovation expertise to maximum effect. The PRIP is built around:

• Shared opportunity – to create the optimal conditions to increase innovation, developed, adapted and deployed in the region. With a sufficiently large population to ensure studies are sufficiently powered and at a scale that interests industry, research partners and funders.
• Shared strategy (and priorities) – collective focus on major challenges and opportunities for research and innovation through five ‘missions’, with a willingness to work across organisational boundaries to overcome structural barriers.
• Integrated governance – to accelerate research translation and innovation adoption and strengthen our ability to be an effective partner to life science industry.
• Integrated capabilities – leverage combined capabilities across the NHS, NIHR and university ecosystems. 

This is an ambitious and exciting approach. It has the potential to reshape how research and innovation drives impact in the South West and inform other rural and coastal communities, across the UK and beyond.