Member News
A whole different IT environment: adapting science parks for a new way of working
Richard Fowler, Technical Sales & Account Manager of RA Information systems, UKSPA Partner Member, provides an overview of the main tech areas that have changed and advanced over the last two years and offers some insight in to how sector operators have had to...
The Epicentre celebrates first anniversary
The EpiCentre in Haverhill recently celebrated its first-year milestone with live music, canapes, cocktails and a whole host of people who have been instrumental in its success including partners, associates and of course their customers The centre has quickly become...
The Oxford Science Park Innovation Award returns as Oxfordshire Business Awards resume
Apply now to join previous winners - Oxford Space Systems, Perspectum Diagnostics, Adaptix & Oxford Biomedica Oxfordshire companies which are progressing valuable innovations can apply now for The Oxford Science Park Innovation Award, one of 2022's Oxfordshire...
AstraZeneca opens new £1 billion research centre within the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
AstraZeneca has officially opened The Discovery Centre (DISC) in Cambridge – a state-of-the-art research and development facility designed to the world’s highest environmental standards and accommodating over 2,200 research scientists. The new £1bn facility will...
Space Enterprise chooses Leeds Nexus for the next stage of national expansion
Space Enterprise Labs has chosen University of Leeds’ innovation hub Nexus for the next stage of its national expansion. The lab at Nexus will be one of only eleven in the country and will work in collaboration with existing space organisations and academic...
Restore Harrow Green work with Illumina on the relocation of 450 specialised, highly sensitive and valuable instruments
The Client Illumina is a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. Illumina’s innovative sequencing and array technologies are fuelling ground-breaking...
Air Liquide introduces a new service for volume use of bulk liquid gases
Air Liquide are introducing a new service for volume use of bulk liquid gases (e.g. liquid nitrogen), ideally suited to science parks, universities, research centres, analytical laboratories and cryopreservation services. Their Mini-bulk service is tailored to...
Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway hits 50% occupancy
The Innovation Centre, Knowledge Gateway is looking to the future with renewed confidence after a successful year of bringing in new businesses helped it go well beyond 50% occupancy. Based on the Knowledge Gateway research and technology park at the University of...
Biotech start-ups successfully graduate from DATA accelerator programme at Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst
Pictured left to right: Dr Hugo Villanueva (SBC), Dr Ajay Mistry (founder and CEO of Oppilotech Ltd) and Dr Sally Ann Forsyth OBE (CEO of SBC) 15 start-ups with huge potential have successfully completed the Data-driven Advanced Therapeutics Accelerator (DATA)...
Design competition launched for £1BN innovation district at Begbroke Science Park
Oxford University Development (OUD), the £4bn joint venture between the University of Oxford and Legal & General Capital, has launched an international competition to find a team to design the masterplan for its world-leading £1billion, 190-hectare...
Global Company Cummins Relocates 200-Strong Team to Discovery Park
Global power solutions provider, Cummins, has joined one of the UK’s fastest-growing communities of life science and technology specialists at Discovery Park in Kent. Cummins has relocated 200 staff from its former base in Manston to state-of-the-art offices within...
Government backs ground-breaking space technology to tackle climate change
Scientists at RAL Space, Harwell have received funding from the UK Space Agency to develop trailblazing technology that will help tackle climate change and predict global disasters using satellites. In total, eleven UK organisations have been awarded a share of just...
Rothamsted-based Barton Blakeley Technologies develops first-of-its-kind Carbon Capture Facility
Barton Blakeley Technologies, based at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire, has developed the world’s first carbon conversion system, converting CO2 emissions into silica. • The facility will produce silica products from waste carbon emissions. • This allows...
£9m sustainable development gets underway at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park
Work has just begun to create a 2,000 sq m four-storey fourth pavilion to expand SportPark, the award-winning development for the UK’s sports sector, on Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park. Scheduled for completion in Winter 2022, the £9m project will...
Nine new businesses take space in The Oxford Trust’s two innovation centres
Nine new early-stage science and technology start-up businesses have taken space in The Oxford Trust’s two innovation centres during Autumn, as Oxford continued to see strong demand from businesses needing R&D labs, technical workspace and flexible office space....