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Camera tech firm Living Optics snaps up Milton Park HQ
Living Optics – a University of Oxford spinout developing hyperspectral cameras which capture information undetectable to the human eye – has established its new headquarters at Milton Park, Oxfordshire. The company hopes its new base on one of Europe’s largest...
Green light for Oxford North’s Red Hall expansion to provide greater amenity, meeting, co-working and workspace
Plans to enhance and expand the Red Hall which will be built at the heart of Oxford North, the new innovation district, which were submitted by Oxford North Ventures, the joint venture company of Thomas White Oxford, the development company of St John’s College,...
£250m Melbourn Science Park vision unveiled
Plans include a co-working hub with shared events space, gastropub and boutique hotel, village green, extensive landscaping and improved transport provision£250 million masterplan spanning 390,000 sq ft to include six new builds, three redevelopments and a village...
Bruntwood SciTech Responds to the 2023 Spring Budget
Dr Kath Mackay, Life Sciences Director, Bruntwood SciTech has shared her thoughts on what the Spring Budget means for the UK science and technology sector - more specifically in relation to the Government’s pursuit to achieve ‘science superpower’ status for the UK. On...
Restructure of Management Team at Silverstone Park
MEPC has appointed Chris Kimber-Nickelson as the new Commercial Director at its growing Silverstone Park industrial estate on the Buckinghamshire-Northamptonshire border. Chris, previously Development Director, has taken up the role with immediate effect. He will...
CodiKoat expansion at The EpiCentre, Haverhill
CodiKoat, the company that started life at the EpiCentre, Haverhill, in 2020 at the height of the COVID pandemic with a ground-breaking technology that kills viruses and bacteria on surfaces within seconds, is on the expansion trail, growing into more space at the...
Celebrating the women of York Biotech Campus this International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. One sector that has historically experienced a gender gap is science. Despite...
Bruntwood SciTech Unveils Plans For £60m Highly Specialist Lab Space at Manchester Science Park
Bruntwood SciTech is set to invest a further £60m into Manchester Science Park (MSP) and support the creation of over 2,500 jobs, as it unveils plans for an additional 131,000 sq ft of world-class, highly specialist lab space to continue to build on the North West’s...
Milton Park companies secure over 7% of UK’s life sciences investment
£2.14b of equity investment generated at the Park over the last decadeCombined turnover from occupiers at Milton Park reached £10.8b in latest set of financials*Findings coincide with government plan for UK to become science and technology superpower by 2030* New...
UK’s first electric autonomous bus service begins at Milton Park
The UK’s first ever fully electric autonomous bus service launched at 10am on Thursday 2 March at Milton Park, giving people the chance to experience the future of green travel for free. The current route shuttles passengers around Milton Park from the Park’s flexible...
Planning approval for three major new buildings at The Oxford Science Park is significant for Oxford life sciences sector
Planning approval for three major new buildings at TOSP is significant for Oxford life sciences sector Plots 23-26 to provide 400,000 sq ft of lab & office facilities Planning approval has been granted for three new state-of-the-art laboratory and office...
Public support for R&D is at risk, with many struggling to see how it helps during a cost-of-living crisis, new polling shows.
R&D is at risk of being labelled a “luxury” given the pressures on public finances. New polling fromCaSE shows that over a third of people can think of very few or no ways that investment in R&Dimproves their lives, this backs up earlier parts of the study...
Milton Park companies to inspire next generation into STEAM careers
A new five-year school engagement programme has launched in Oxfordshire, which will see employers located at Milton Park develop local young people’s employability skills and engage students with careers in science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics...
Flurry of new customers for Sciontec
Flexible workspaces are in high demand due to the continued surge of hybrid working. Sciontec has experienced a strong start to the year, thanks to a flurry of new lettings across its two Liverpool sites. Seven businesses, working within the digital, technology and...
Culham Innovation Centre celebrates 22 years at the heart of cutting-edge biotech, high-tech and fusion energy
As Culham Innovation Centre in south Oxfordshire celebrates 22 years of providing flexible workspace for innovators in the science sector, the innovation centre is also reflecting on its contribution to cutting-edge technology that is helping to deliver potentially...