Inside Story

£25m for seven projects to kick-start the Anglesey Freeport and drive economic growth across the island and North Wales has been announced today (20 March).

The Welsh Government has invested £8 million in a Swansea company developing cutting edge technology, helping to position Wales as a leader in offshore wind.

13 Welsh games studios and companies are on the way to the 40th GDC Festival of Gaming – the games industry’s major annual global gathering - in San Francisco, California.

Welsh businesses, universities and colleges can now access new opportunities in the growing defence sector through Wales Regional Defence and Security Cluster, which was launched today (9 March).

Duffryn doesn’t look much like the front-line of a battlefield. To the west of Newport, it’s the point where the city’s suburbs yield to a cluster of smart business parks, guarded by lakes, fountains and pampas grass.

Few company headquarters feature a meeting room in a treehouse, a sun terrace, a towering atrium with stadium seating or a village-style pub.

Employing over 300 staff across Wales, RWE has invested £3 billion into its operations over the last decade, notably in its extensive offshore wind farms.

‘Making space work for humanity’ – that’s the ethos of Cardiff-based Space Forge. They’re developing the world’s first returnable satellite, which will be used to produce materials that are impossible to manufacture on Earth.