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Cardiff joins the SETsquared Partnership
Cardiff University has become the sixth partner of SETsquared, the world’s top-ranked university-business incubator. Cardiff joins the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton, and Surrey and will further strengthen the group’s capability for providing...
Cool Beans cafe opens at the EpiCentre, Haverhill
Businesses, musical talent and a local celebrity gathered on 8 September 2021, to support the opening of Cool Beans, the new café at The EpiCentre on the Haverhill Research Park. Topped with a ribbon cutting ceremony by West Suffolk councillor Susan Glossop, the...
Austrian psychotherapy pioneer mymAInd chooses Sci-Tech Daresbury for UK base
mymAInd, the Austrian HealthTec firm that deploys algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) to create products and services that deliver mental health support, has launched a UK base within the Liverpool City Region at Sci-Tech Daresbury’s Innovation Centre. Founded...
Further government funding supports phase II R&D lab conversion at The Oxford Trust’s Wood Centre for Innovation
The Oxford Trust, the local charity encouraging the pursuit of science and enterprise, is to commence the second phase of its conversion of dedicated high spec laboratory facilities at its Wood Centre for Innovation in Headington, Oxford, following £0.2 million...
Life sciences boom continues at Brookfields Harwell campus as Vaccitech joins
As pandemic life sciences boom sees unprecedented demand for flexible space, Vaccitech plc (NASDAQ: VACC), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, responsible for the technology behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, has taken 31,000 sq. ft within the Zeus...
Base at Manchester Science Park tops out
Base at Manchester Science Park has now topped out – making it one of the first projects supported by the government’s Getting Building Fund to reach the momentous milestone. Work on Bruntwood SciTech’s £21m, five-storey, 91,000 sq ft development started in December...
Vacancies at Loughborough University’s Business Incubator
Research and Enterprise Office We are seeking two dynamic, self-motivated and passionate individuals to join Loughborough University’s Business Incubator, LU Inc. LU Inc.’s mission is to cultivate emerging innovative and ambitious businesses, to create a rich...
Leading employee-owned agency moves into new offices on Warwick Technology Park
Front L-R: Polly Barnard, of Emperor, and Jane Talbot, Warwick Innovation Centre manager with members of staff from Emperor inside their new offices. One of the UK’s leading employee-owned creative agencies has moved into new offices at the Innovation Centre on...
Edinburgh BioQuarter and Edinburgh Innovations announce Progress innovation in a collaborative ecosystem webinar
Progress innovation in a collaborative ecosystem Webinar 13:00-14:00 BST, 31 August 2021 Hosted jointly by Edinburgh BioQuarter and Edinburgh Innovations, the webinar will explore how new medical treatments are progressed from bench to bedside at BioQuarter, and the...
Merit completes critical lateral flow test manufacturing facility for Abingdon Health
Offsite construction specialist, Merit, has successfully completed a contract to expand a Lateral Flow Test manufacturing facility for Abingdon Health in York, UK. The project was delivered by Merit’s specialist healthcare division, Merit Health, and is part of...
Dr David Hardman MBE to step down as Bruntwood SciTech’s Managing Director in Birmingham at the end of the year
Dr David Hardman MBE, Managing Director for Bruntwood SciTech in Birmingham, is to step down at the end of the year, after 23 years working in the science parks industry, the last 13 of which have been focussed on leading the strategy, vision and development of the...
BES delivers Pharma QA lab in repurposed warehouse
BES, experts in design and construction of specialist facilities for pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors, has completed a £1.8 million project to create a Quality Assurance (QA) laboratory to GMP standards within an existing high bay warehouse. Delivering the...
How we turned the STC from a hunch into a reality – Roz Bird, Chair, Silverstone Technology Cluster
It’s five years since the independent research house, SQW, published the report that revealed the Silverstone Technology Cluster (STC). The report confirmed the earlier suspicions of MEPC and Barclays who then became the prime movers behind the STC organisation that...
Taking a lease on a science park? How to overcome financial pitfalls. The last in the series of blogs from Giorgia Clements, Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
In our third blog addressing potential financial pitfalls in leases, we addressed the dangers of exercising your break right incorrectly or changing your mind after exercising it. To culminate our series of blogs, here we will consider business rates and the dangers...
Construction to start at Oxford North with Hill Group awarded £15 million contract
Thomas White Oxford (TWO), the development company of St John’s College, is due to start infrastructure construction works following Oxford City Council’s planning committee resolution to approve its enabling works reserved matters application (RMA) to kick-start...