Ground-breaking Global Programmes, Delivered with Agility and Depth by Pera

Pera developed and deployed sector and market experts to drive major opportunities for UK business through a stream of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) programmes.

To deliver a series of major business initiatives on behalf of UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), Pera recruited, deployed and managed a team of over 70 market, technology and sector specialists to drive detailed insights and business opportunities to UK companies, flexibly responding to a changing international political and financial landscape.

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. Pera worked closely with UKTI in designing and delivering flexible, agile and pioneering interventions that have resulted in exceptional returns on investment and benefits to UK businesses of over £1 billion.

The Specialists – experts in specific market sectors such as ICT, performance engineering or pharmaceuticals within important markets such as the US and India, together with value chain specialists and entrepreneurs – actively seek out opportunities for UK businesses. For example, as governments sought to support their industry through the recent economic downturn with Fiscal Stimulus packages, the specialists identified business opportunities for UK companies within the supply chain of these major projects.

Other examples included engaging with and actively matching major companies' R&D strategies with the specific expertise of UK R&D performers such as world-renowned expertise in UK universities, stimulating inward investment and trade for the UK.

Our work for UKTI varied in scope and emphasis but their success relied on Pera's ability to gather global intelligence, identify business opportunities and exploit gaps using a flexible team of business specialists.

These programmes were truly ground-breaking. No country or company had previously designed or delivered such a high-level, expert team. The rates of return were exceptional: between 15 and 74 times investment, comfortably above the average rate of return for government programmes. This represented an excellent return for the government, for UK industry and, ultimately, for the taxpayer.

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