| Northern Ireland Science Park Location Queen's Road, Queen's Island, Belfast BT3 9DT Contact Details Contact: Mervyn Watley, Director of Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Tel: 028 9073 7800 Email: info@nisp.co.uk Website: www.nisp.co.uk The Vision – Collaboration and Innovation  The Northern Ireland Science Park is one of the UK's leading innovation hubs providing an environment where people with ideas, resources and expertise can collaborate and innovate for individual and wider economical success. It's an ecosystem where industry, government and academia come together to do business with science. Innovative technology developed at the Science Park is transforming lives, and benefiting businesses and communities not only throughout the region, but around the world.Headquartered within the historic 180-acre Titanic Quarter site – where the White Star Line's famous family of Olympic passenger vessels were conceived and RMS Titanic had its final fit-out – the Northern Ireland Science Park's creative campus is in one of the largest city centre waterfront redevelopment sites in Europe. The Park Community There are more than 90 tenants based at the Science Park, ranging from global corporations to local entrepreneurs, including leading business software provider SAP and Autonomy – a local software solutions provider that is now a FTSE 100 company. They fall under eight areas of business activity including: High tech, Telecommunications, Digital Media, Clean Technology, Health/Bio Technology, Aeronautical Technology, financial engineering and Business Support. The cluster of tenants at the Park creates a community where businesses can share information and knowledge through and ultimately benefit from the wisdom of crowds. The Park provides an array of flexible workspace solutions on a range of leases to reflect the needs of companies – from one-person starts-ups requiring a single desk on a month's notice to an entire building on a 15-year lease. Currently, the Park has six buildings in operation offering around 250,000 square feet of lettable agile work-space, along with additional public networking and meeting spaces. These include: The Innovation Centre  Designed as Northern Ireland's most flexible and hi-tech workspace solution, the Innovation Centre is a 56,000 square foot award-winning facility and was the Park's first development. Available in unit multiples of 2,000 square feet, The Innovation Centre's occupants avail of all-purpose workspaces adaptable for everything from wet labs to desk-based work.Legacy Building Opened at the start of 2006, The Legacy Building is a 23,000 square foot, two-storey facility providing units ranging from 5,000 to 6,000 square feet and will accommodate both larger corporate occupants and new start ups that have outgrown their space in the nearby Innovation Centre. White Star House Opened in summer 2006, White Star House is a 40,000 square foot facility housing 350 knowledge-workers attached to Citi's Northern Ireland Technology Centre of Excellence. White Star House also meets the requirements of The Carbon Trust's 'Low Carbon Design' initiative – part of the Park's wider commitment to sustainable development. Concourse I Completed in September 2009, Building One is the first of what will be three linked buildings, with large rectangular floor plates capable of sub-division. Comprising over 50,000 square feet across five floors, this fully ventilated and air conditioned building provides very flexible accommodation solutions. ECIT Research Institute At £40 million, ECIT is a world-class research centre housing Queen's University Belfast's internationally renowned expertise in electronics and computer science. ECIT is pioneering innovation in key areas of advanced technology whilst also providing 'hot-housing' facilities to encourage and support the growth of new spin-off and spin-in companies. Titanic's Dock and Pump-House  Titanic's Dock and Pump-House occupies a seven-acre scheduled monument site at the Science Park. The massive dry-dock where RMS Titanic was fitted out remains as Titanic's physical footprint in history. The listed Pump-House accommodates a Café and Visitor's Centre as well as an Interpretive Centre for what was the largest dock and most powerful pumps in the world when completed in 1911 to construct the largest trio of ships – RMS Olympic, Titanic and Britannic.Connectivity: Key to Success The Science Park delivers the fastest internet connectivity available which is, theoretically, only limited by the speed of light. Sitting on a fibre optic network, linking Northern Ireland to Europe and the USA, the Park is able to supply tenants with diverse connectivity at the fastest speeds achievable. More and more hi-tech companies are relocating to the Science Park to take advantage of this fibre network allowing them to remain at the cutting edge of new technological opportunity. Surrounded by a resilient ring of multi-gigabit, fibre-optic cables, the Park assures security and reliability of connection. The network is operated under the principals of 'Open Access' allowing tenants to benefit from access to any major telecom providers that they desire, ensuring competition between suppliers and beneficial pricing. Mentoring at the Park: Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurialism Not only does NISP boast the ideal physical infrastructure to host cutting-edge, value-added companies its mentoring programmes are dedicated to promoting sustained growth for client companies. By offering mentoring programmes directly to the region's most promising ventures, the Science Park has become the leading location for knowledge-based enterprises. NISP CONNECT  NISP CONNECT is an independent, non-profit organisation fostering entrepreneurship by accelerating the growth of promising technologies and early stage companies. A collaboration between Northern Ireland Science Park, University of Ulster, Queen's University, Belfast and Agri Food & BioSciences Institute (AFBI), NISP CONNECT acts as an 'honest, neutral broker' within the region.The NISP CONNECT programme comprises:
Halo – Northern Ireland's business angel network – is a joint initiative of Invest Northern Ireland and InterTradeIreland. The initiative helps local entrepreneurs on their journey from pitch to profit aiming to match local entrepreneurs with high net-worth individuals who choose to invest in start-up companies in exchange for shares. The Halo network has grown to over 140 angel members in 2010 and already includes a significant number of business angel investors from across the UK and Ireland. The local network was named UK Business Angel Network of the Year in 2010 as a result of the high quality start-ups involved and the £2m that has been invested in local companies over a two year period. The Future for the Northern Ireland Science Park The Science Park has become one of the top ten science parks in the UK and Ireland and is well recognised internationally for its ability to successfully bring together industry, government and academia for the greater good of the local economy. At this time plans are being put into action for the development of Concourse II which along with the existing Concourse I will form part of the proposed design for three main buildings. Together, they will provide over 210,000 square feet of office or laboratory accommodation at the Science Park once completed. Through a combination of world-class fibre optic ICT connectivity, innovative workspace and successful mentoring programmes, the Science Park continues to be a fundamental sponsor of entrepreneurialism in Northern Ireland. For further information on the Northern Ireland Science Park visit www.nisp.co.uk.  |
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