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Keele University’s Science and Innovation Park is one of the leading developments of its kind in the UK. Fully integrated into Keele’s 600 acre campus, the Park is home to over 1,000 employees across more than 50 diverse and thriving businesses.

Being located on the Park allows companies to base themselves in an environment that provides an innovative research culture combined with access to academic expertise, student internships and the University’s specialist resources.

The Park hosts and supports a wide range of innovative businesses, from recent start-ups through to established multinationals, working across a range of different knowledge-intensive markets. Four winners of Queen’s Awards for Enterprise currently call Keele home, with many more award-winners also on site.

High-quality workspace

The Science and Innovation Park has come a long way since its initial conception in the mid-1980s, providing high-quality accommodation and bespoke growth support to hundreds of businesses over the past four decades.

Today the Park boasts approximately 130,000 ft² of commercial mixed-use accommodation to suit businesses of all sizes. Spaces can be provided fully furnished and are equipped with the latest technology for ultimate digital integration and connectivity with access to formal meeting rooms, executive boardrooms, digital suites and think labs, reception services and close proximity car parking.

But that’s not all. When you join Keele’s Science and Innovation Park you will become part of a thriving community – a community of unique support, academics, researchers, organisations and students who are committed to stimulating business and innovation development.

World-class research

80% of Keele’s research has been classified as world-leading or internationally excellent (Research Excellence Framework, 2021), and tenants are encouraged to take advantage of the cutting-edge research that is taking place on their doorstep by working with the University on mutually-beneficial collaborations to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

The workforce of tomorrow, available today

Keele’s students are among the most employable in the country, thanks to an extensive curriculum that combines taught knowledge with experiential learning, preparing students for the world of work and the challenges ahead.

The majority of Keele’s 12,500 students have the opportunity to undertake work placements or to collaborate with external industry partners on joint research projects. This mutually-beneficial arrangement enables businesses to access the latest thinking and boost their workforce, as well as the chance to get ahead of competitors in terms of recruitment.

Social and Wellbeing

As one of Britain’s largest campus universities, Keele resembles a small town, with shops, eateries and sports facilities.

With Keele’s beautiful 600-acre campus on your doorstep, you and your employees can take advantage of:

• Sports and health facilities, including gym and physiotherapy clinics
• Co-Op store, Well Pharmacy and Greggs bakery in the centre of campus
• Cafes, bars and restaurants
• Regular social, arts and cultural events
• Courtyard by Marriott hotel, plus event and conferencing facilities
• On-site nursery, rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted
• On-site veterinary clinic
• Woodland and lakeside walks
• Unisex hair salon

Local connections, global possibilities

Despite being nestled in a green, picturesque and tranquil environment near Newcastle-under-Lyme in North Staffordshire, Keele’s Science and Innovation Park is actually only 10 minutes from the UK’s longest motorway, the M6, allowing quick and easy access to all areas of the country.

Thanks to Keele’s central location, both Manchester and Birmingham can be accessed by car within approximately 60 minutes, while two major train hubs – Crewe and Stoke-on-Trent – are located less than 20 minutes away, with trains to London taking as little as 90 minutes.

For those looking to travel further afield, four international airports are available within about an hour’s drive time, putting access to the world on your doorstep. Not bad for a leafy campus in the Staffordshire countryside!

Sector leaders in Sustainability

Keele is a university that cares about the world and our place in it. We are a university that:

• has declared a climate emergency
• has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2030
• has divested from all fossil fuels
• has installed 12,500 solar panels and two wind turbines on campus, generating 50% of our campus electricity from renewable sources
• is leading the world in energy research and green technology.