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Modus Laboratories are relocating their multinational business to Plymouth Science Park
Modus Laboratories is a contract research company for the oral healthcare industry, testing materials, formulations and treatments as well as designing formulations and formulation development. The company works with multinational companies and academic institutions,...
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...
Surge in companies moving into innovation centres during pandemic
Cornwall's three innovation centres see new arrivals and overall inquiries exceed forecasts despite the trend for home-working Cornwall’s three innovation centres have seen 13 new businesses move in since the start of the coronavirus pandemic – despite the trend for...
Council pays £7.2m for Cambridge Science Park building
South Cambridgeshire District Council, represented by national property consultancy Carter Jonas has acquired 296 Cambridge Science Park from CBRE Global Investors for £7.2 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 5.95 per cent. The 16,545 sq ft building was...
Welsh manufacturer set to double workforce thanks to investment in sustainable PPE
A Welsh company has nearly doubled its permanent workforce to 127 staff in just four months after switching part of its operations to create personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Based in Ystrad Mynach, Transcend Packaging...
Software development company Snowing Data first occupiers at the Epicentre, Haverhill Research Park
Fast growing software development company Snowing Data (team pictured) is the first company to take space with a 452 sq ft unit at The EpiCentre, in Haverhill, that opens this November. Snowing Data, that has seven employees already is set to double in staff numbers...
Funding boost for AI-based epilepsy monitoring
University spinout company Neuronostics has received funding to develop its BioEP platform, an AI-based system for faster, more accurate diagnosis of epilepsy and to monitor response to treatment with anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). BioEP works by creating mathematical...
KW Special Projects to locate world class Digital Manufacturing Centre at Silverstone Park
MEPC has confirmed that a state-of-the-art digital manufacturing facility – believed to be one of the most technically advanced of its kind in Europe and serving sectors such as aerospace, automotive, defence and marine – will be created inside one of 13 sizeable new...
Planners’ Fast Tracking of UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre Supercharges Delivery
Priority planning status enabled construction of the UK’s Vaccines Manufacturing and Innovation Centre (VMIC) to commence months before planning permission was granted. Close collaboration between Vale of White Horse District Council, VMIC, Harwell Campus and multiple...
Landmark agreement between Exeter Science Park and University of Exeter drives opportunities for growth
In a landmark agreement, Exeter Science Park Limited and the University of Exeter, a Russell Group University, have joined forces to create a joint focal point for science, technology, engineering, maths and medical (STEMM) innovation at Exeter Science Park. As a...