Market Development: taking UK clean expertise and experience global

For the UK to help countries take advantage of the energy-related clean technologies and services it has to offer, it works in partnership with governments, government departments and private enterprise around the world.

We will actively collaborate with partners to deliver sustainable energy and meet new infrastructure requirements.

We will implement market development mechanisms both inside and outside of the UK government to help UK businesses compete and prosper on the international stage. Here are 6 examples:

Trade policy

Having its own independent trade policy now allows the UK to negotiate Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and other trade policy mechanisms. These agreements will offer businesses and address existing barriers to investment and trade. We will implement market development mechanisms both inside and outside the UK government to support open and fair trade between countries.

Official development assistance

For the business-focused benefits of clean growth to be realised, strong links between DIT teams and technical assistance providers are encouraged and maintained.

Official development assistance is focused on a set of priority markets. This presents an opportunity to shape markets through initiatives such as skill-shares and secondments, where UK experts work directly with their counterparts in partner countries to provide knowledge and build capacity across a range of clean sectors.

Infrastructure Exports: UK (IE:UK)

UK board brings together individuals who represent the Best of British in consulting, professional services, construction, and operational excellence to combine UK capability into a consortium offer, raising the bar of the UK’s infrastructure offer to international organisations and businesses.

Three pillars of IE:UK’s approach

• Market identification
• Market development
• Project pursuit

Infrastructure Exports: UK (IE:UK) is a UK government partnership with private sector companies that looks to build on the pillars featured above through collaborative work carried out internationally on infrastructure projects.

Partnership with industry

By forming collaborative partnerships across industries and with government bodies, the UK can be stronger and more competitive in delivering solutions for some of the world’s largest and most complex infrastructure problems. 

The Infrastructure Exports UK board brings together individuals who represent the Best of British in consulting, professional services, construction, and operational excellence to combine UK capability into a consortium offer, raising the bar of the UK’s infrastructure offer to international organisations and businesses. 

Third country collaboration

This involves the UK working with partner countries to deliver on significant infrastructure projects in third country markets.

Collaborating with partners opens up new opportunities for all the parties involved. Our projects are proving to be a more complete offering to win projects.

Clean growth: market development

The first step in taking UK clean growth partner businesses, products and services out into international markets, particularly in the field of energy generation and other sustainable infrastructure projects.

Find out more about how working with the UK to explore the market potential of moving to a cleaner, more sustainable energy infrastructure and the benefits it can bring to business and government, visit Great.gov.uk.