Despite the past year being challenging for the industrial market, there has been a record take-up in the Thames Valley’s industrial market according to Lambert Smith Hampton’s (LSH) 2021 Industrial and Logistics Report. LSH’s report highlighted the growing demand of the Thames Valley with a strong...
The region’s strengths in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Centres, Cyber Security and Medical Technology and Fintech are highlighted in the DIT’s most recently published national sector propositions: Artificial Intelligence – outlines the UK’s position as a global leader in this sector, describing it as the ‘powerhouse...
Mobile network operator Three UK has announced its move to a 117,000 sq. ft headquarters building in Green Park, which will combine both of its Thames Valley offices into one central office, based in Reading. The move aims to embed a more hybrid approach to working...
Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), based at Harwell Campus, has invested in GlobalTrust, a data analytics company, which supports public policy and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies. GlobalTrust, began its UK operation at the end of 2020, taking office space at the Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire – further...
A new engineering hub and test facility, backed by government funding and the European Space Agency contract, is set to be built at Harwell Campus, based in Oxfordshire. The new facility will provide a space for UK researchers and businesses to experiment and will focus on...
The importance of digital technology, health and wellbeing investment has grown amid the pandemic, providing a boost in attractiveness for the South East as a destination for foreign direct investors, according to the recently published EY UK Attractiveness Survey report. The report found that these...
The UK-Canada have launched the worlds first Quantum Technologies Competition. Run jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), there are 8 named winning projects that will lead the collaboration between academia, industry and the...
Oxford University, via Oxford University Innovation, has created its 200th spinout company based off academic research. The new company PhishAR, will build on Professor Ivan Martinovic and Dr Ivo Sluganovic’s work from the Department of Computer Science. PhishAR will employ augmented reality and crack down on...
Quad Two will be an expansion of Harwell’s Science and Innovation Campus, located in Oxfordshire, taking up 47,000 sq. ft in a Grade A development to produce further office space for companies. The building will generate flexible office space, allowing three out of four floors...
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, in collaboration with MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) and Diamond Light Source, have been awarded a £25m grant from Wellcome. The grant will aid the development of a trio of electron imaging physical sciences technologies which will alter how we...