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UK @ SXSW
Stand 1107, 1109, 1111, 1113, 1115, 1206, 1208, 1210, 1212, 1214
Level 1, Victoria 3 1 Victoria Street
London, SW1H OET
UNITED KINGDOM
Phone (44)207/215-8997
URL www.ukti.gov.uk
Company Profile
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets, and encourage the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice.
UKTI’s aims & objectives are to:
- Deliver measurable improvement in the business performance of UK Trade & Investment’s international trade customers, with an emphasis on innovative and R&D active firms.
- Increase the contribution of foreign direct investment to knowledge intensive economic activity in the UK, including R&D.
- Deliver a measurable improvement in the reputation of the UK in leading overseas markets as the international business partner of choice.
UKTI’s new strategy, Britain open for business, is at the heart of the UK Government’s drive to promote growth through trade and investment. Launched in May 2011, it sets out plans to provide practical support to exporters and inward investors over the next five years. The strategy lays out four pathways to balanced growth:
1. Targeting services at innovative and high growth SMEs to encourage more companies to export, and help existing exporters reach more high growth and emerging markets.
2. Winning high value opportunities in overseas markets for UK businesses of all sizes.
3. Delivering high quality inward investment, with a drive to market large British infrastructure and regeneration projects to foreign investors.
4. Building strategic relationships at the highest levels with the most significant inward investors, including overseas institutions such as Sovereign Wealth Funds, and with the UK’s top exporters and major overseas buyers.
These pathways will help to develop new ways of relating to businesses, and will include a new online peer-to-peer software for UK exporters. There will also be a renewed focus on partnerships with the private sector to boost productivity and improve performance.
