Coventry and Warwickshire has teamed up with Birmingham and the Black Country to showcase the region’s world class automotive and engineering capability at the MIPIM property development and investment show next week.

Around 30 per cent of people in the UK who work in the automotive industry are based in the West Midlands, while, according to UKTI, about 20 per cent of everything the UK exports to China is from Jaguar Land Rover.

This session, held on the Thursday of the show, will look at how the region is the driving force in the renaissance of the UK automotive industry, combining cutting-edge research and development, leading academic excellence supported by an extensive skill base and supply chain.

That combination of capabilities has helped the region perform strongly in attracting inward investment and offers exciting opportunities for international and UK companies.