Welsh Assembly Government
Friday 21 November 2008

Aims and Objectives

Accelerate Wales is about encouraging growth within its member companies by providing full support in whatever form is appropriate and likely to bring best results. As such, the support tool-kit includes Mentoring, Training, Business Support and specialist advice. The Initiative also provides access to Networks, industry specific information, sourcing expertise and promotional activity. All these services are being brought to bear to engender improvements in cost performance and innovation within the supply-chains and it’s individual member companies as well.

Accelerate uses networking as a primary means of knowledge exchange. This is achieved at a number of different levels including: International cluster networking through the WAF and the

  • International Trade Office of the WAG
  • Accelerate Champions Network
  • Supply-chain Networks
  • Accelerate Wales automotive conferences
  • Through WAF, special interest clusters
  • Regular news items on the Accelerate Wales and WAF websites
  • A core objective of Accelerate Wales is to create a 'one-stop-shop' for automotive companies' information needs. As such, the Accelerate Wales website provides hot-link access to information likely to be useful to its members. This information is in the form of directories, libraries or articles, or indirectly through contacts to specialists who can provide tailored information on request. This contact could be achieved on-line via chat room, bulletin board or e-mail.