THE knowledge economy

Could create up to 58,000 jobs based on predicted 15% growth by 2022, seeing the numbers employed in the sector grow from 387,000 to 445,000

2,000 jobs could result from the creation of a biomedical health campus centred around the rebuilt Royal Liverpool Hospital

The expansion of Daresbury Science and Innovation campus will create an estimated extra 12,000 jobs.

Advanced manufacturing in the motor industry could create 1,500 new jobs (this includes investment in the new Range Rover Evoque and new transmission products at Getrag)

University of Liverpool Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Howard Newby, who chairs the Knowledge Economy Group, said: “This is an ambitious plan which aims to generate nearly 60,000 additional jobs by the early 2020s, to raise productivity and to move GVA closer to the national

average.

“At this time of radical change it represents an exciting opportunity for the city region to pull together and drive its economy forward to the benefit of all those who live and work here.”