UKSPA Member Webinars
A series of webinars considering the longer term challenges and opportunities for the sector.
10 September
The Future of incubation & business support
More details to be announced shortly
UKSPA Covid-19 Hub
The UKSPA Covid-19 hub for those in the sector to find out more information regarding the Government’s and UKSPA’s response.
Member Interest Groups
A member only platform to develop and share expertise, exchange ideas and best practices.
The Latest News
Kent consortium gets green light to develop £60m investment bid to accelerate medicines development
A proposal that could bring £60million investment into the life sciences sector in Kent has taken a significant stride forward by securing £50,000 to develop the bid further. The money is seedcorn funding via UK Research and Innovation’s flagship £236m Strength in...
£10.8m investment kick-starts life sciences development in Birmingham
Birmingham Health Innovation Campus (BHIC) has been announced as one of eight ‘shovel ready’ projects in the West Midlands which will benefit from a combined £66 million of Government funding. BHIC will sit at the heart of a critical cluster of health excellence...
High-growth tech firm joins rapidly expanding digital community at Alderley Park.
CurrentBody, the world’s largest e-commerce supplier of beauty devices, has announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Glasshouse at Alderley Park in a move that will see it join a thriving hub of digital and technology businesses. The high-growth beauty tech...
Member News
Kent consortium gets green light to develop £60m investment bid to accelerate medicines development
A proposal that could bring £60million investment into the life sciences sector in Kent has taken a significant stride forward by securing £50,000 to develop the bid further. The money is seedcorn funding via UK Research and Innovation’s flagship £236m Strength in...
£10.8m investment kick-starts life sciences development in Birmingham
Birmingham Health Innovation Campus (BHIC) has been announced as one of eight ‘shovel ready’ projects in the West Midlands which will benefit from a combined £66 million of Government funding. BHIC will sit at the heart of a critical cluster of health excellence...
High-growth tech firm joins rapidly expanding digital community at Alderley Park.
CurrentBody, the world’s largest e-commerce supplier of beauty devices, has announced plans to relocate its headquarters to Glasshouse at Alderley Park in a move that will see it join a thriving hub of digital and technology businesses. The high-growth beauty tech...
Inventive use of space allows Diagnostics for the Real World to keep on top of demand for COVID-19 test kits
Chesterford Research Park based Diagnostics for the Real World (DRW) made worldwide headlines earlier this year with a game-changing way of testing for COVID-19. The University of Cambridge spinout responded quickly to the pandemic by adapting its HIV testing machine,...
Millions awarded to create new technology park in Malvern
The new technology park will be built as part of an expansion of the existing Malvern Hills Science Park, home to defence contractors QinetiQ and more than 40 more science and technology businesses. The multi-million-pound plans will see an additional 11 acres of...
SportPark on Science and Enterprise Park to receive £6 million Government expansion fund
Plans to develop a Global Sports Hub centred at Loughborough received a boost with the announcement today that SportPark on Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park (LUSEP) will undergo a £6m expansion. The project will create a fourth pavilion of 2,000 sqm...
Sector News
Civic leaders urge greater investment in R&D
Leaders from across local and civic government, as well as universities and research institutions, have signed a manifesto calling on Whitehall to provide more support to the knowledge economy to ‘level up’ the regions. The 10-point manifesto was sent to business...
Six companies shortlisted for £400M Golden Valley development project
Six potential development partners have been shortlisted to work on Cheltenham’s £400,000 Golden Valley Development. One of the UK’s flagship schemes, the Golden Valley Development, will sit on a 200 hectare site adjacent to GCHQ in West Cheltenham and aims to deliver...
Yorkshire leaders sign manifesto to boost innovation in the region
Leaders from across Yorkshire’s local and civic government, universities and research institutions have signed a new manifesto to boost the nation’s regional innovation potential. The signatories – which include Martin Farrington, director, city development at Leeds...
Place Matters: Innovation and Growth in the UK
Produced by Metro Dynamics, on behalf of Bruntwood SciTech, the Place Matters: Innovation and Growth in the UK report explores the power of place.Many of our cities and towns have or have had a key role in the creation of the innovation-based global knowledge economy....
Over £100 million cash boost to manufacture millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine
New state-of-the-art centre to scale up COVID-19 vaccine and gene therapy manufacturing gets £100 million investment. The UK’s capability to manufacture vaccines has received a substantial boost yesterday, as the government announced an additional £100 million to...
CBI reports record drop in UK manufacturing as total orders dip
Hopes of a rebound in manufacturing output in the three months to July have been dashed by figures from the Confederation of British Industry that showed production volumes declined at a record pace and total orders fell at their fastest rate since October 1980. The...
Association News
Innovation gives us good reason for optimism
With experts predicting a 25-30% drop in economic output and British tech firms posting their worst performance since the financial crash of 2008, it’s easy to see why the future might appear particularly gloomy. There are however reasons for optimism. Recessions...
Connect, share and support
UKSPA Chairman Dr Glenn Crocker MBE on why the innovation network has never been more important… In my first contribution to Breakthrough, following my appointment as UKSPA chairman, I wrote in the last issue about the need for UKSPA to remain relevant in the face of...
Financial Impact of Covid-19 on Science and Innovation Locations
UKSPA asked members two questions in a survey that run from Thursday 3 April to Tuesday 7 April 2020. This provide a snapshot of member activity at this time and provides useful evidence on the impact of Covid-19 that will be used in further UKSPA briefings to...
Blog
Gearing for Growth: Transitioning to York Biotech Campus in the midst of a global pandemic
Liz Cashon, Innovation Campus Manager at York Biotech Campus COVID-19 has, without a doubt, changed the face of bioscience for the long term. Already vital research facilities became centres of focus overnight as the world looked to scientific research teams to find...
The Next 100 Days: Mitigating Risk
This is the next blog in the series looking at how companies can align their commercial goals with an effective approach to Intellectual Property (IP), using Potter Clarkson’s “Next 100 Days” guide. During times of crisis, it is more important than ever to mitigate...
Lessons Learnt From A Zero Carbon Laboratory
Four years after completion in 2016 we have been taking the opportunity to review how well the University of Nottingham’s Centre for Sustainable Chemistry is working. The building provides all of the functions required for the operation of the Universities...
Make UK/BDO Report – Industry warns of damaging triple whammy hit to red wall regions from ‘no deal’
Some of the UK’s most economically deprived regions and so-called ‘red wall’ constituencies are at risk of a triple whammy hit to their economies in the event a comprehensive new relationship with the EU is not concluded by December. Those regions with a high...
Supporting Occupiers’ Wellbeing: The Role of Landscape.
As lockdown measures are lifted and a new normal begins to emerge, it is clear that the economy and the health of the nation have never been so important. Although the physical threat from Covid-19 is lessening as infection...
Innovation gives us good reason for optimism
With experts predicting a 25-30% drop in economic output and British tech firms posting their worst performance since the financial crash of 2008, it’s easy to see why the future might appear particularly gloomy. There are however reasons for optimism. Recessions...
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