Innovation

While County Durham’s heritage of creativity and innovation stretches back over hundreds of years, its vision lies firmly in the future.

With an infrastructure designed to help businesses thrive, County Durham is nurturing new technologies and is home to pioneering new discoveries. 

Innovative processes, new tools and methods are making existing production more efficient. Dramatic new technologies are creating new products previously unimagined.

County Durham Development Company is dedicated to creating the ideal business environment – fully developing the commercialisation of the region’s research and development excellence, and complementing it with technology-based investment from beyond the region.