I have just returned from Expo Real in Munich. It was 40,000 of your closest friends all frantically engaged in trying to place finance into land and property deals. And I bear witness that there genuinely is a ‘wall of money' trying to invest in the UK.
I was there on behalf of the UK Innovation Corridor – a partnership of 18 local authorities, together with the Greater London Authority and the Cambridge and Peterborough Combined Authority, seven universities and hundreds of life science companies. We are in the very first stages of developing an investment prospectus and, even though we weren't really ready, we found that we were getting business cards pressed into our hands from the Big Money Guys.
