West Sussex County Council – Strategic Partner

The Council works with our partners and neighbours to help create the right conditions for business to thrive. We deliver an Economy Plan for West Sussex that sets out our priorities in driving and sustaining growth to support a prosperous county. Our involvement in RISE provided an opportunity to address strategic challenges for the county’s businesses and economy, including the need to drive up productivity and businessled research and development, and promote employment in higher value, knowledge intensive industries. During and following the pandemic there have been additional challenges facing our county’s businesses. RISE was able to address some of these challenges so keenly felt by many businesses, for example around recruitment, the emerging green economy and the rapid advancement in digital technology.

For the RISE project West Sussex County Council has been a Strategic Partner, helping to inform delivery, and representing the County Council and the District and Borough Councils of West Sussex, who each provided match funding to enable the project, and who have all supported the RISE project team with advice and proactive promotion to local businesses. The Council welcomes the benefits brought to hundreds of West Sussex businesses through increased awareness and understanding of innovation, and providing brokerage with expert support from the innovation specialists at the Universities.

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