UKSPA Business Directory
The Business Affiliate members of UKSPA play a significant role in supporting the work of the Association and the wider innovation landscape.
Individually, and collectively they are vital in the Association’s activities as well as being a significant contributor to the science and innovation sector and UK economy.
UKSPA December Conference
iCentrum, Innovation Birmingham 2nd & 3rd December.
The event will also include the UKSPA AGM.
There is limited capacity and so early registration is strongly recommended
The Latest News
AstraZeneca opens new £1 billion research centre within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
AstraZeneca has officially opened The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge – a state-of-the-art research and development facility designed to the world’s highest environmental standards and accommodating over 2,200 research scientists. The new £1bn facility will...
Space Enterprise chooses Leeds Nexus for the next stage of national expansion
Space Enterprise Labs has chosen University of Leeds’ innovation hub Nexus for the next stage of its national expansion. The lab at Nexus will be one of only eleven in the country and will work in collaboration with existing space organisations and academic...
Restore Harrow Green work with Illumina on the relocation of 450 specialised, highly sensitive and valuable instruments
The Client Illumina is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. Illumina’s innovative sequencing and array technologies are fuelling ground-breaking...
Member News
AstraZeneca opens new £1 billion research centre within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
AstraZeneca has officially opened The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge – a state-of-the-art research and development facility designed to the world’s highest environmental standards and accommodating over 2,200 research scientists. The new £1bn facility will...
Space Enterprise chooses Leeds Nexus for the next stage of national expansion
Space Enterprise Labs has chosen University of Leeds’ innovation hub Nexus for the next stage of its national expansion. The lab at Nexus will be one of only eleven in the country and will work in collaboration with existing space organisations and academic...
Restore Harrow Green work with Illumina on the relocation of 450 specialised, highly sensitive and valuable instruments
The Client Illumina is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. Illumina’s innovative sequencing and array technologies are fuelling ground-breaking...
Air Liquide introduces a new service for volume use of bulk liquid gases
Air Liquide are introducing a new service for volume use of bulk liquid gases (e.g. liquid nitrogen), ideally suited to science parks, universities, research centres, analytical laboratories and cryopreservation services. Their Mini-bulk service is tailored to...
Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway hits 50% occupancy
The Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway is looking to the future with renewed confidence after a successful year of bringing in new businesses helped it go well beyond 50% occupancy. Based on the Knowledge Gateway research and technology park at the University of...
Biotech start-ups successfully graduate from DATA accelerator programme at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
Pictured left to right: Dr Hugo Villanueva (SBC), Dr Ajay Mistry (founder and CEO of Oppilotech Ltd) and Dr Sally Ann Forsyth OBE (CEO of SBC) 15 start-ups with huge potential have successfully completed the Data-driven Advanced Therapeutics Accelerator (DATA)...
Sector News
AstraZeneca opens new £1 billion research centre within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
AstraZeneca has officially opened The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge – a state-of-the-art research and development facility designed to the world’s highest environmental standards and accommodating over 2,200 research scientists. The new £1bn facility will...
WISE launches Covid Unsung Heroes Awards
WISE, the campaign for diversity, inclusion and change in STEM, has launched its Covid Unsung Heroes Awards to celebrate the women working in STEM that have changed lives, communities and the economy for the better during the pandemic. Kay Hussain, WISE’s Chief...
Budget will not meet ambitions of Innovation Strategy
Authors: Patrick Bonnett, Steve Yianni and Jane Gate Slowing investment will make science superpower status less likely, say Patrick Bonnett and colleagues The budget was a chance to begin implementing the government’s Innovation Strategy. Launching the strategy...
Planners back 170,000 sq ft development at St John’s Innovation Park
Cambridge planners have backed a massive expansion at St John’s Innovation Park. St John’s College and development manager Turnstone Estates have been given the go-ahead for two additional office and R & D buildings and a new transport hub to be located in the...
A summary of policies from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that are included in the government’s Spending Review.
The government has published the Spending Review, delivering on key commitments to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, support the jobs and industries of the future and invest in a high-wage, high-skill economy. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial...
Budget is business friendly, but won’t deliver high investment, high productivity economy- Tony Danker, CBI Director-General
Tony Danker, CBI Director-General, said: “Today, the Chancellor has shown a genuine willingness to listen to business with measures that will get firms innovating and help the economy to grow. It takes several positive steps forward, but isn’t bold enough to deliver...
Association News
Budget will not meet ambitions of Innovation Strategy
Authors: Patrick Bonnett, Steve Yianni and Jane Gate Slowing investment will make science superpower status less likely, say Patrick Bonnett and colleagues The budget was a chance to begin implementing the government’s Innovation Strategy. Launching the strategy...
UKSPA is looking to appoint an early career professional board member
An UKSPA Board initiative to help improve diversity and representation. Last year UKSPA appointed two co-opted members of the UKSPA Board. Following an open application process Alice Reeve (Hethel Innovation) and Joe Caine (Keele University Science Park) were...
Creating the future by making the best use of what we’ve got. UKSPA’s Interim Chair Patrick Bonnett reflects on the Government’s Innovation Strategy.
The end of July saw the publication of the new Innovation Strategy by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The strategy was launched by Kwasi Kwarteng, the BEIS Secretary of State at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre near Sheffield....
Blog
Budget will not meet ambitions of Innovation Strategy
Authors: Patrick Bonnett, Steve Yianni and Jane Gate Slowing investment will make science superpower status less likely, say Patrick Bonnett and colleagues The budget was a chance to begin implementing the government’s Innovation Strategy. Launching the strategy...
Avison Young releases Ten Trends for a Zero Carbon World
Avison Young has released its Ten Trends for a Zero Carbon World, a look at how actions to address climate change are impacting the development, investment and occupation of real estate. A key component of the wider Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) debate,...
Discovery Park CEO comments on today’s spending review announcement
Mayer Schreiber, CEO of Discovery Park in Kent, one of the UK’s fastest-growing communities of life science business, including Pfizer, Viatris and Concept Life Sciences. He said: “I am delighted by the Chancellor’s announcement of £1.4Billion of funding into the new...
Budget is business friendly, but won’t deliver high investment, high productivity economy- Tony Danker, CBI Director-General
Tony Danker, CBI Director-General, said: “Today, the Chancellor has shown a genuine willingness to listen to business with measures that will get firms innovating and help the economy to grow. It takes several positive steps forward, but isn’t bold enough to deliver...
UKSPA is looking to appoint an early career professional board member
An UKSPA Board initiative to help improve diversity and representation. Last year UKSPA appointed two co-opted members of the UKSPA Board. Following an open application process Alice Reeve (Hethel Innovation) and Joe Caine (Keele University Science Park) were...
Creating the future by making the best use of what we’ve got. UKSPA’s Interim Chair Patrick Bonnett reflects on the Government’s Innovation Strategy.
The end of July saw the publication of the new Innovation Strategy by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The strategy was launched by Kwasi Kwarteng, the BEIS Secretary of State at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre near Sheffield....
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