The new £40m Hub building will house the Rosalind Franklin Institute (RFI), a national institute dedicated to creating technologies which will change the way researchers see life through interdisciplinary research and technology development, has reached practical completion. The Hub, funded through the UK Research and Innovation...
For the fourth consecutive year Oxford and Reading have been ranked as the top performing UK cities on PwC’s Good Growth for Cities 2020 report. This year’s Good Growth for Cities 2020 report, published January 2021, looks into the economic impact of coronavirus on local and regional...
INEOS, the UK’s largest private company, has donated £100m to create a new Oxford University Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance. The new institute is set to combat the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The resistance is known as a ‘silent pandemic’, currently causing an estimated...
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...
The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for Covid-19 has started being rolled out across the UK. The collaboration follows a partnership agreement between Oxford University and AstraZeneca who worked at an accelerated rate to protect against Covid-19. Paul Britton, CEO of Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce, said: “The rollout of...
A new national rocket test facility, based in Aylesbury Vale Enterprise Zone, part of the Thames Valley, will allow UK companies and academics to test state-of-the-art space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft. The new cutting-edge facility...
The University of Reading has entered into an agreement with affiliates of Commonwealth Real Estate LP, a film studios investor based in Los Angeles, for a long lease of land at the University’s Thames Valley Science Park campus, Berkshire, which will see the development of a major...
Only London and South East are expected to employ more people in 2023 than 2019. London, South East and North West economies have contracted the least in 2020; West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber and East Midlands have contracted most. Opportunities to accelerate levelling up...
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...