Case Studies
First tenants sign up to ESA innovation hub at £100m Space Park Leicester
The first start-up has signed up to a new innovation hub at the £100 million Space Park Leicester. Dr Nkeiruka Nneti Onyia, who has a PhD from the University of Leicester, and Lensa Etefa Jotte, a PhD researcher at the university, have formed LENKÉ Space and Water...
Leeds’ digital and tech sector set to boost city’s economic recovery in 2021
Leeds’ digital and tech sector continues to thrive, demonstrating its important role in the city’s post-pandemic economic recovery, as Bruntwood SciTech (the joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General) announces four fast-growth companies relocating to...
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool reveals new community referral scheme
Knowledge Quarter Liverpool (KQ Liverpool) has launched KQ Reward, a community referral scheme providing tiered rewards for successful introductions of new customers to KQ Liverpool. Already home to over 100 dynamic technology, science and digital focused businesses,...
UKSPA Executive Director reflects on the past year and the opportunities ahead
It would be a massive understatement to describe 2020 as "challenging" - it was a year that affected all of us in so many ways. I do hope that you and your family, as well as your colleagues, start the year in good health. For UKSPA, 2020 started positively...
Airbus UK chief appointed head of government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult
Katherine Bennett, who is currently senior vice president of Airbus’s UK arm, will succeed Dick Elsy when he retires as chief executive of the HVM Catapult later in 2021. The announcement comes just days after the UK formally left the European Union (EU). Airbus said...
The EU-UK deal – what does it mean for manufacturers?
The UK and EU have announced that they have provisionally agreed a Trade & Cooperation Agreement that will determine the framework for a new UK-EU relationship. Whilst the trade deal negotiated by the government falls short on the trade benefits we previously...
CBI response to extra business support during third lockdown
“The Chancellor has once again moved swiftly to support businesses as circumstances change. It is sorely needed. “More direct grants will provide some relief to eligible companies’ cashflow. “Yet with businesses facing a third lockdown, there are other steps that can...
The role of the Regional Growth Fund and the development of Sci-Tech Daresbury
When the Government invested £7.36m of its Regional Growth Fund (RGF) into Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus in 2010, then Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts said it would: “not only strengthen the science base at the campus, it will...
£4.6 billion in new lockdown grants to support businesses and protect jobs
Chancellor announces one-off top up grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses worth up to £9,000 per property to help businesses through to the Spring£594 million discretionary fund also made available to support other impacted businessescomes in addition...
New COVID-19 RNA test gives accurate results within minutes
University of Birmingham researchers have invented a COVID-19 test that reduces testing time from 30 minutes to under five, and delivers accurate results. The method is described in a preprint paper (yet to be peer-reviewed) published on MedRxiv, where the...
Dr Sally Ann Forsyth CEO Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst Awarded OBE for Services to Business and Science
Dr Sally Ann Forsyth, CEO of Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst (SBC), thanks her colleagues and collaborators after being honoured in the 2021 New Year Honours list. Sally Ann has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to business...
UK manufacturing order books hit 10-month high in December
Order books in the UK manufacturing industry improved to their strongest in 10 months in the lead up to Christmas. The latest CBI monthly Industrial Trends Survey also pointed out order books remain weak by historical standards. By comparison, the improvement in...
Celebrating 10 years of MIRA Technology Park
MIRA Technology Park (MTP), Europe’s leading mobility R&D location, is celebrating a decade in business after launching in 2011 The vision for MIRA Technology Park was ambitious; become a national centre of excellence for UK automotive development, bringing...
Biotech cleaning product succeeds with R&D Tax Credits
Juggling multiple Research and Development projects can significantly stretch any company’s resources, putting cashflow under significant pressure. This was the situation faced by a leading biotech company when it sought to innovate its cleaning product range.Access...
Shinfield Studios deal brings Hollywood to Reading
The University of Reading has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Commonwealth Real Estate LP, a film studios investor based in Los Angeles, for a long lease of land at the University’s Thames Valley Science Park campus, Berkshire, which will see the...