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Acknowledgements: The Blue Growth Data Workshop was organised by the University of Edinburgh through the INSITE Data Initiative funded by the INSITE (INfluence of man-made Structures In the Ecosystem, www.insitenorthsea.org) research programme. The authors thank participants from BP, British Geological Survey, Gardline, DeepTek, theDataLab, Hartley Anderson, Marine Scotland Science, Heriot-Watt University, BMT Cordah, Shell, BEIS OPRED and Marathon Oil for their contributions. INSITE follows the 2012 Oil and Gas UK led "Decommissioning Baseline Study" joint industry project that identified data gaps in our understanding in the influence of man-made structures on the ecology of the North Sea. J. Murray Roberts and Katherine Needham acknowledge further support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 678760 (ATLAS). David Billett was supported by funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 689518 (MERCES: Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Changing European Seas). Lea-Anne Henry was supported by the INSITE Project "Appraisal of Network Connectivity between North Sea subsea oil and gas platforms". Kieran Hyder was supported by INSITE project "Assessing the ecological connectivity between man-made structures in the North Sea". Silvana Birchenough was supported by the INSITE project "Understanding the influence of man-made structures on the ecosystem functions of the North Sea and the European Union's Horizon 2020 Project COLUMBUS (652690) "Knowledge Transfer for Blue Growth". This output reflects only the authors' views and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF