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The Oxford Trust welcomes five new science and tech businesses during lockdown
The Oxford Trust, the charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, has welcomed five new occupiers during lockdown across its two Oxford innovation centres: The Oxford Centre for Innovation next to Oxford Castle and The Wood Centre for Innovation in...
Harwell Campus to increase office accommodation after planning permission secured
Planning permission has been secured by Harwell Science and Innovation Campus for a 47,000 square feet Grade A development that will provide office space for science and technology companies at the UK’s major science hub in Oxfordshire. Called Quad Two, which will...
Silverstone Park Enterprise Zone “a magnet” for high tech, high growth businesses
MEPC is close to naming a further three businesses that will be locating to new HQ style industrial properties being constructed inside its latest Enterprise Zone development at Silverstone Park.The full development, 258,000 sq ft in all and comprising 13 industrial...
Member News
The Oxford Trust welcomes five new science and tech businesses during lockdown
The Oxford Trust, the charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, has welcomed five new occupiers during lockdown across its two Oxford innovation centres: The Oxford Centre for Innovation next to Oxford Castle and The Wood Centre for Innovation in...
Harwell Campus to increase office accommodation after planning permission secured
Planning permission has been secured by Harwell Science and Innovation Campus for a 47,000 square feet Grade A development that will provide office space for science and technology companies at the UK’s major science hub in Oxfordshire. Called Quad Two, which will...
Silverstone Park Enterprise Zone “a magnet” for high tech, high growth businesses
MEPC is close to naming a further three businesses that will be locating to new HQ style industrial properties being constructed inside its latest Enterprise Zone development at Silverstone Park.The full development, 258,000 sq ft in all and comprising 13 industrial...
Evotec expands at Milton Park to become one of its largest occupiers
Evotec, a leading drug discovery alliance and development partnership company, has taken additional office and laboratory space at Milton Park, one of the leading science and technology communities in Europe, to bring its total occupation to 192,745 sq ft making it...
Collaboration and innovation crucial to accelerating campus company growth at Sci-Tech Daresbury
Over 240 new products and services developed by Sci-Tech Daresbury companies in 2019Over 70% of campus companies collaborating with another organisation based on siteCollaboration business value of £10m in 201940% increase in new jobs created versus 2018, with over...
Appointment of Non-Executive Directors – Catalyst
Catalyst is one of Northern Ireland’s major economic success stories with facilities in Belfast, Ballymena, and Derry/Londonderry, which is also the hub of a cross border economic initiative with Letterkenny Institute of Technology. Catalyst is home to 2700...
Sector News
£6 Million programme extension at WMG to help small manufacturers across the midlands
The SME Group at WMG, University of Warwick, has secured a £6m extension to their programme to help small manufacturing companies in the East and West Midlands. This has been funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the High Value Manufacturing...
£300 million to boost UK manufacturing productivity by 30%
Businesses with creative ideas to boost the UK’s manufacturing capabilities, including using robotics, AI and augmented reality, are set to receive £300m of joint government and industry funding, Business Secretary Alok Sharma confirmed at London Tech Week today (11...
CBI says manufacturing downturn eases after record dip
Manufacturer output volumes in the three months to August continued to fall quickly, but the pace of decline eased somewhat from last month’s survey-record decline, according to the latest CBI monthly Industrial Trends Survey. The survey of 278 manufacturers found...
Digital Forum at heart of £85m King’s Quarter plan
One of the largest digital quarters in the UK will form part of the £85million King's Quarter project to redevelop part of Gloucester city centre. Plans for The Forum, which will form part of the regeneration of King's Square, have been revealed as part of today's...
Over 200 jobs announced as part of the Welsh Lighthouse Lab facility
Welsh Government and Life Sciences Hub Wales are supporting plans to build a 200 strong team of specialists at Wales’ soon to be launched Lighthouse Lab, which is set to create additional capacity for the UK’s Covid-19 testing strategy. Work to establish the UK...
The VentilatorChallengeUK consortium wins award for Pandemic Service
In March, the Prime Minister called on the manufacturing community to produce ventilators at the pace and scale needed to support the NHS in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Reaching out to the HVM Catapult’s contacts throughout the UK’s engineering community, our...
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
Propcos, corporate occupiers, pension funds…have your say
Business rates are the bane of most corporate occupiers but bring in £30bn for the Government each year. After years of assurances, the Government has launched what it calls a “fundamental” review of the business rates system. There is a call for evidence and it is...
The Next 100 Days – Seizing the opportunity in a new normal
This is the final 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. We developed this guide to help companies prioritise their IP...
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...
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