1. Ruaraidh MacNeil Highlands and Islands Enterprise The Beechwood Campus Development

2. Ambitious for Scotland Why here, why now? Inverness Campus P4 Digital Healthcare Convention 1 st October 2010

3. Sustainable Economic Growth… Demographic change Access to high quality Higher Education 2,500 to 4,500 increase in HE students Opportunities for all Increase GDP New businesses Increased GVA £38m pa. Better career prospects: 6,000 new jobs

4. Vision - Function A place to collaborate A place for learning A place where knowledge is created A place for enterprise A place to live A place for leisure

5. Ambitious for Scotland Visionary Inspiring Vibrant Stimulating Vision - Ethos Sustainable Open Welcome Safe Flexible Flowing Connected Human Scale

8. Ambitious for Scotland

9. Proposed development 215 Acres Phase I - 55,000sq.m. of development Phases II & III – 70,000sq.m. Education, research, sport & leisure and business Highly collaborative environment

10. Partnership Forum

11. Key Project Inverness College, UHI 20,000 sq.m. Development FE & HE Education, training, research “Hub” facilities, café, business incubators etc. Opening summer 2014

12. Key Project Scottish Agricultural College 2,000 sq.m. Veterinary Services, Research and Business Consultancy Growth aspirations Open 2014

13. Key Project Social Enterprise Hotel 6,000 sq.m. Fully operational Hotel Short-stay “social accommodation” Employment and Training for the disadvantaged

14. Other Elements Science and Technology Park, including business incubators Sport Centre and playing fields Student Accommodation Community/Arts Facilities

15. HIE Phase I Investment £30.45m Timescale 2010-14 Inverness College~£60m2012-14 SAC ~£5m2012-14 Social Enterprise Hotel ~£9m2013-14 CfHS Phase IV ~£10m2014-15 Sports £10–25m2014-20 New Railway Crossing TBCPost 2018 Total £130m plus Scale of Initial Phase I Investment

16. Opportunities for Business Community Expansion of Life Science cluster Knowledge creation, transfer, incubation and commercialisation High Value inward investment Investment – CfHS Phase IV, student accommodation, services Sponsorship - PhD’s, student placements, public art, research, sport

17. The way forward – Public/Private Sector Collaboration Lifescan, SAMs, EMEC Commonality of issues & opportunities Sharing of ideas, knowledge, people and resources

18. Ambitious for Scotland Making it Happen + Ambition + Leadership Collaboration = World Class