6 March 2019


Bright Building, a ‘living lab’ for state-of-the art technology


Platform, Leeds - home to the city’s digital Tech Incubator’


BRUNTWOOD SCITECH


FUTURENORTH


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With so many spades in the ground already, here


is a geographical overview of Bruntwood SciTech Manchester


MANCHESTER SCIENCE PARK Close to the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), the campus is home to a rich cluster of over 150 knowledge-based businesses and over 2,000 people attracted by the specialist science and tech facilities and equipment. The heart of the Park is the Bright


Building. Opened in 2017, it was purposefully designed to maximise customer interaction in order for inno- vative ideas to develop, and valuable partnerships to form. The building includes open communal workspace, a gym, cafe, flexible 200-person event space, sports kit drying rooms, and secure cycle storage. Science and tech businesses located


at Manchester Science Park have access to a specialist programme of business support including dedicated access to finance and funding, talent acquisition and retention services, new markets, and professional services assistance, coupled with a vibrant social events and networking calendar. The campus is currently undergo-


ing further transformation to grow to 1m sq ft within the next ten years to support the growth of science and tech businesses in the region.


CITYLABS CAMPUS Citylabs brings together and acceler- ates collaboration between the NHS, scientific and academic communities and industry on the largest clinical academic campus in Europe. Citylabs provides opportunities


for health and medical technology businesses to grow and co-create new health products in collaboration with the NHS and academia and is a Joint Venture project between Manchester Science Partnerships and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, the country’s largest Provider Trust. The campus is already home to a


cluster of digital health, medical devices, diagnostics, precision medicine and bio- material businesses in Citylabs 1.0, who have unique direct access to the hospital Trust’s clinical resources, researchers, clinicians and procurement teams, as well as a specialist growth support and events programme. Under the £60m expansion Citylabs


2.0 and 3.0 will become home to a globally-leading genomics campus for innovation, translational science, genomics, precision medicine and molecular diagnostics, serving both the Greater Manchester region and the wider UK. QIAGEN has been confirmed as the lead industrial partner in the creation of this world- leading hub and the company will also significantly expand its UK operations to have Citylabs 2.0 as its home, which was announced in the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. Real health benefits will be delivered


for Manchester and the country in the creation of the clustered community by enabling big strides to be taken in the prediction and prevention of disease through new diagnostic tests which enable earlier detection of disease and development of personalised treat- ments.


CIRCLE SQUARE Circle Square is Manchester’s newest city centre neighbourhood. A joint ven- ture between Bruntwood SciTech and Select Property Group, the 2.4m sq ft, £750m development is also located in the heart of the Oxford Road Corridor. It will be home to 1.2million sq ft


of commercial workspace offering a mix of designated co-working, small studios, larger floorplates for managed and leased spaces and social commu- nity spaces. A place to live, work and enjoy, it will also include; 1,700 new homes, 1000 sq ft of public realm, and 100,000 sq ft of leading-edge retail, leisure space and two hotels. Hewlett Packard Enterprise will


move into office space at Circle Square next year. The company, which cur- rently operates across six locations in the UK, will have capacity to locate almost 300 of its employees. Circle Square, already home to


Manchester Technology Centre with its tech incubator, is a magnet to large cor- porations attracted by access to digital tech entrepreneurs and start-ups. It will also boast the largest amount of new green space in central Manchester in a generation as part of its development.


ALDERLEY PARK Alderley Park, in Cheshire, is where world leading, science, innovation and stylish living come together to create a place like no other. Currently undergoing over £247m


of investment, Alderley Park is home to the internationally-recognised Mere- side life science campus and vibrant, fast growing community of over 200 companies. Alderley Park also offers 150,000 sq


ft of commercial workspace ideal for digital tech and forward-thinking inno- vative business along with a wide range of amenities including a conference centre complete with a 232-seat audi- torium, meeting rooms, a restaurant, gym and outdoor sports pitches. The Mereside campus offers over


1m sq ft of ready-to-go chemistry and biology labs ranging from a single bench up to 50,000 sq ft alongside a comprehensive range of centralised


scientific services all available on a pay as you go basis. The Alderley Park Accelerator is


focussed on the growth and scaling up of new and early stage life science companies, offering a variety of pro- grammes and support services, such as the 12-week DEVELOP programme, a range of boot camps and access to an expert mentor network. The campus is also home to national


institutions including Innovate UK’s Medicines Discovery Catapult and the national Antimicrobal Resistance Centre, a joint private-public initiative to support/accelerate the development of new antibiotics and diagnostics. The Cancer Research UK Manches-


ter Institute also made the Mereside campus its interim home following a fire in 2017 at its former location in Manchester, taking 81,000 sq ft of laboratory and office space for over 300 scientists to conduct research and development activity.


Leeds Bruntwood SciTech’s hub in Leeds is Platform, standing directly above the city’s mainline railway station. The recently fully-refurbished Platform provides a major new strategic creative and technology centre in the heart of Leeds city centre and will create more than 1,000 jobs for the city through its Tech Incubator for start-ups in the digital and creative industries. Facilities include co-working and


serviced space as well as a customer lounge for networking, roof terrace, strong community events programme, and specialist business support programme which includes access to finance, intellectual property advice, business mentoring and resource planning. Bruntwood SciTech is keen to


continue its growth in Leeds as it con- tinues to work closely with the city’s public, private and academic authori- ties to help grow the city’s strengths in science and technology.


Case study: Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, Citylabs


Cancer drug treatments will be better targeted for patients thanks to pioneering work by the Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre at Citylabs in Manchester. Bruntwood SciTech’s Citylabs


campus is the perfect location for the job, according to the centre’s director Professor Tony Whetton. The Discovery Centre specialises


in finding protein markers in blood which can stop patients being given treatments that fail to improve their conditions. It ends the ‘hit-or-miss’ process


where doctors prescribe drugs that may, or may not, be effective along the treatment journey. The centre succeeded in getting a


grant to establish the best and largest proteomic centre in the region and


worked with Manchester Science Partnerships to develop high-end laboratory space at Citylabs. Prof Whetton said: “The key thing


for me about Citylabs is location, location, location. “Manchester is one of the best


centres to undertake clinical and pre- clinical research. “We’re on the site of the largest


NHS Trust in the country and there is a really large clinical base, and two or three hundred yards away we have two of the UK’s major universities. “We also have local industry, local


healthcare industry colleagues and local clinical research colleagues around us as well. And we can find those in Citylabs as well as elsewhere in Manchester – at Manchester Science Park for example.”


Birmingham Innovation Birmingham is the region’s leading digital and tech campus, with co-working, office, meeting and event space as well as highly speci- fied business support programmes for innovators, entrepreneurs and investors looking to develop or fund innovative digital start-ups with high growth potential. The campus is home to over 170


companies, employing over 1000 people. Over 330 start-ups have benefited from the campus’ Serendip open innovation programme to date, working with national partners includ- ing National Express, Barclays, Tata Motors and Gymshark and collectively raising over £18 million in start-up funding. Innovation Birmingham is also at


the heart of the West Midlands’ plans for a 5G test bed and is located next to the planned terminal for HS2.


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