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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...
Budget will not meet ambitions of Innovation Strategy
Authors: Patrick Bonnett, Steve Yianni and Jane Gate Slowing investment will make science superpower status less likely, say Patrick Bonnett and colleagues The budget was a chance to begin implementing the government’s Innovation Strategy. Launching the strategy...
Planners back 170,000 sq ft development at St John’s Innovation Park
Cambridge planners have backed a massive expansion at St John’s Innovation Park. St John’s College and development manager Turnstone Estates have been given the go-ahead for two additional office and R & D buildings and a new transport hub to be located in the...
Pioneer Group announce new life sciences incubation and acceleration facility to open at The Campus, Cherrywood
A new 30,000 sq ft life sciences incubation and acceleration facility which will provide specialised lab, office and collaboration space for over one hundred life science and health technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and researchers has been announced for The...
Creating the future by making the best use of what we’ve got. UKSPA’s Interim Chair Patrick Bonnett reflects on the Government’s Innovation Strategy.
The end of July saw the publication of the new Innovation Strategy by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The strategy was launched by Kwasi Kwarteng, the BEIS Secretary of State at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre near Sheffield....
Bold new strategy to fuel UK’s world-class space sector
New plans to strengthen the UK as a world class space nation by firing up its multibillion-pound space industry have been set out in a National Space Strategy launched at the Harwell Campus. From connecting people with their friends and family and monitoring...
World leading Pandemic Institute launched in Liverpool
Liverpool is to headquarter the Pandemic Institute, committed to helping the world prevent, prepare, and respond more effectively to pandemics. The Pandemic Institute is a medical, academic and civic partnership between the University of Liverpool, Liverpool...
How the 2021 Spending Review can make the UK a ‘science superpower’
Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) Assistant Director Daniel Rathbone sets out the key asks from the 2021 Spending Review and the rationale behind them. We now know that the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) we have all been waiting for will conclude...
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...
Kadans expands Oxford footprint with two new acquisitions at Abingdon Science Park
Kadans has added two further buildings at Abingdon Science Park, Oxfordshire to its Pan-European science park portfolio. The assets, Monarch House and Penlon House were acquired from two separate private clients. The two buildings sit adjacent to Kadans existing...
14-hectare science and innovation park planned by Legal & General and University of Oxford
Legal & General is to fund and deliver a new innovation district with the University of Oxford, extending the existing Begbroke Science Park across an adjacent 14-hectare site. The first phase of the scheme will bring forward new teaching facilities for the...
GSK unveils plan for one of Europe’s largest life science campuses in Stevenage
GSK has announced that it has formally started the process of seeking a development partner to transform land within the company’s existing 92-acre Research & Development site in Stevenage into one of Europe’s largest ‘clusters’ for biotechnology and other...
New Subsidy Control Bill creates a subsidies system to replace the EU’s State aid regime
Businesses across the UK will be able to benefit from financial support thanks to a new subsidy control system following our departure from the EU. The Subsidy Control Bill introduced to Parliament today seizes the opportunities from having left the EU’s bureaucratic...
Employee wellbeing at the heart of UK business shift to hybrid working
Survey reveals only 5% of companies expect their staff to work entirely from an office or workplace in the future. Employee choice and wellbeing is the key driver for a major shift to hybrid working in the UK, according to a survey run by CBI Economics and...
BentallGreenOak announces two life sciences acquisitions in Oxford with joint venture partner Mission Street
Acquisitions made by a Joint Venture with science and innovation specialist Mission StreetThe development, totaling 5.5 acres, will deliver a major new innovation hub in Central Oxford to support burgeoning research and development demandPartnership will seek to...