India’s Solar Manufacturing Capacity Is at 200GW – and the Export Strategy Is Now the Defining Question
India has built one of the world’s largest solar manufacturing bases. The next phase is about where thatcapacity exports to, and which destinations become part of the supply chain. By June 2026, India’s solar module manufacturing capacity crossed 200 gigawatts annually, with ALMM-approved capacity exceeding 190 GW and domestic solar cell manufacturing capacity crossing 30 […]
UK Life Sciences Is Restructuring Its Supply Chain – and New Production Geographies Are Coming Into Focus
Geopolitical uncertainty, tariff risk, and the UK’s 10-Year Life Sciences Plan are simultaneously reshapingwhere British pharma and medtech companies manufacture. The UK government unveiled its 10-Year Life Sciences Plan in July 2025, aiming to fix a long-acknowledged gap between the UK’s strengths in discovery and its weaknesses in commercialisation and manufacturing scale-up. The plan explicitly […]
Ireland’s Indigenous Medtech Sector Is Expanding Internationally – and the Middle East Is on the Map
Ireland exports €20bn in medtech annually. The indigenous cohort within that cluster is now buildinginternational commercial presence, with Asia and the Gulf emerging as priority corridors. Ireland’s medtech sector generates approximately €20 billion in annual exports, makes Ireland the second-largest medtech exporter in Europe, and employs 50,000 people directly – the largest medtech workforce per […]
Singapore’s Precision Engineering Sector Is at Capacity – and the Next Location Decision Is Already Being Made
Six consecutive months of manufacturing expansion and ongoing supply chain constraints are forcingSingapore precision engineers to look beyond their home base. Singapore’s manufacturing PMI rose to 50.6 in February 2026, the highest reading in nearly a year, sustaining six consecutive months of expansion. Electronics – accounting for approximately 30% of factory output – led the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Healthcare Privatisation Is Creating a New Class of Private Operators – With Regional Ambitions
290 hospitals and 2,300 primary health centres are opening to private participation. The companies scalinginside this mandate will look outward next. In January 2026, Saudi Arabia announced the launch of its National Privatisation Strategy, shifting the privatisation agenda from its foundation phase into execution. Healthcare sits at the centre of this shift. The Saudi government […]
India’s Specialty Chemicals Sector Is Heading Toward $86 Billion – and Moving Up the Value Chain
A China+1 realignment and 10.4% annual growth are reshaping where Indian chemical companies go next. India’s specialty chemicals export market is valued at $35.4 billion in 2026 and is forecast to reach $86.2 billion by 2035, a compound annual growth rate of 10.4%. The driver is structural: a global reshuffling of chemical supply chains away […]
Irish Deep Tech Is Internationalising Earlier. IPAs That Wait for the Company to Be Ready Are Arriving Too Late.
Irish startups raised €992m in 2025. The fastest cohort is entering international markets at Series A. The gapbetween first funding and first location decision has narrowed to months. Irish startups raised €992 million across 319 companies in 2025, with a first quarter that was the strongest opening quarter for Irish startup funding in a decade. […]
Saudi Fintech Is Scaling Fast. The Outbound Window Opens Before 2030.
The first cohort of Saudi fintech companies to scale domestically will look outward next. The location decisions are two to four years away. The preparation starts now. Saudi Arabia’s fintech sector is undergoing a transformation that most investment promotion agencies havecategorised as a destination story. It is becoming a source market story, and the window […]
Singapore Is Not a Source Market. It Is a Decision Hub. Most IPAs Have the Strategy Backwards.
Behind Singapore’s $1.65 trillion outward investment stock are principals from India, China, the Gulf, andSoutheast Asia. The pitch needs to reach them, not the holding company. Most investment promotion agencies classify Singapore as a source market and approach it accordingly — attending trade missions, meeting government-linked companies, and pitching through the standard institutional channels. The […]
UK Fintech Has Outgrown Its Home Market. The Next Geography Is the Deciding Question.
Growth from $21bn to $44bn by 2031 cannot come from the domestic market alone. The expansion isalready underway. The UK fintech market is projected to reach $21.44 billion in 2026. By 2031, consensus estimates put it at $43.92 billion. The arithmetic is straightforward: that growth cannot come from the domestic market alone. Much of it […]