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🏆 We’ve just been awarded “New Business Launch of The Year’ at the Estates Gazette Awards 2025, and we are well chuffed. This is the proof that the momentum we’ve been building over the last couple of years is real, and the flywheel is starting to turn. This year has been pivotal for us, working with Imperial College London, The Crown Estate and Hammersmith & Fulham Council has demonstrated confidence in the fact that our approach to creating Innovation Hubs is different. Next up? Launching our first sites in 2026 including #OnePortalWay in #NorthActon and expanding our network of hubs for science and technology businesses in key locations across the UK. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eeJYP2H5 Huge thanks to everyone who believed in our vision and in particular John Anderson who supported us from the very start. Our heartfelt thanks also go to this list of special people who have helped us along the way (..recognising that LinkedIn’s limitations on the maximum number of taggable contacts prevented us from including the full list): Alice Sewell Becca Ferrier Graham Hewson,Lizzie Sears, Jennifer Waterhouse, Matthew Sampson, Tim Chilton, Emma Goodford, Katherine Rodgers, Andy Neely, Robert Thompson, Nicholas Blevins, Jamie Renison, Rory MacGregor Lucy Blackwell, Chris Xitsas, Paul Gershlick, Neil Rowles Reg Brady,Ben Woollard, Katie Blake, Elvina Petrėnaitė-Kartanė ACIArb Nicole Lowe LLM Kate Carlisle, Habibur Rahman, Wael Muselmani, Tim Tolcher, Oliver Kampshoff, Colm Dougan, Daniel Mahony, Chris Jolly, Elisabeth Teo-Pennell, Frank RoccoGrande, Adrian Wilson Kean Hird #Sciopolis #InnovationEcosystem #BuildingMomentum #ScienceAndTech #InnovationHubs #Collaboration #London #Cambridge #EstatesGazetteAwards2025

Brilliant to see our CEO, Charlie Mitchell, interviewed by Estates Gazette last week. Huge thanks to Evelina Grecenko for shining a light on the work we’re doing and where we’re headed next. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/ew8uZnHH

Where will the next 🦄 Oxford Nanopore Technologies come from? Hopefully, its name is already hidden somewhere in the newly released #SpinoutRegister, the first and only database of UK university spinouts, tracking 2,493 companies and counting. We attended #SpinoutDataSummit today to take the temperature of a sector that sits right at the heart of the UK Industrial Strategy, and that we hope will soon be among the most exciting users of our office and lab spaces. Here’s what we found 👇 🔹 UK universities are getting more efficient at spinning out companies. 🔹 But the overall curve is dipping (or at best flat) after the Covid-era bump. why? 🔹 Because spinout activity mirrors university R&D budgets, and those budgets are tightening. 🔹 VCs are struggling to find exits. 🔹 …And the days of quick flips to industry are gone: buyers are waiting for spinouts to mature. So how do we fix it? 1️⃣ Close the capital gap — Mansion House reforms and beyond. 2️⃣ Mobilise specialist investors: spinouts need deep-tech fluency, not generalist capital. 3️⃣ Build a new university culture: embed entrepreneurship into the curriculum more, and give academics space to “practice”. This is something we’re hearing increasingly often when comparing the UK and US ecosystems. A really insightful day with great perspective from across the spinout ecosystem. Simon Hepworth , Tony Hickson , Geeta Nathan , Dr Emma Millhouse MBA, PhD Ananay Aguilar Aurora Antemir Rowan King Marika Reay Joshua Hawkins Rory M. #spinouts #ukinnovation #universities

Capital alone doesn’t scale innovation. Infrastructure does: and that’s where we’re focused. Here’s what that looked like last month: 🤝 Partnering with lab suppliers who want to collaborate, not just sell equipment 💡 Joining the Innovate Cambridge Summit to explore how innovation can reach beyond the Golden Triangle 🤖 Advancing the AI infrastructure conversation—from robotics to responsible deployment 🪏 Building #OnePortalWay ahead of our June 2026 opening 👀 Hosting weekly tours every Tuesday to showcase what’s coming 👉 Read the full update here: https://lnkd.in/euXWxptp 🗞️ Signup to our monthly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eHjvZTtX #Innovation #Infrastructure #Ecosystem #Collaboration #OnePortalWay #OldOak #NorthActon #WestTech #Sustainability #Cambridge #labs #labequipment

Visiting Manchester we were struck by the proximity of the universities to one another, the ambitious development of academic infrastructure and the collaboration and programmatic approach to supporting and nurturing innovation. Manchester may not have always been an obvious innovation hotspot but it has been busy assembling the enablers, including a connected innovation ecosystem that links universities, hospitals, developers and tech firms together. As we concluded after Innovate Cambridge Summit, you can’t just build innovation. You have to connect it. And Manchester seems to understand that very well. Recent coverage and data point to a city that is fast becoming one of the UK’s key science and tech clusters, with interesting links forming between #Manchester and #Cambridge We’re positive about opportunities in Manchester and we'd love to explore how Sciopolis can play a role in the ongoing transformation. If you have ideas for potential sites or partners we should speak to as we look at opportunities in Manchester, please get in touch. Many thanks to Lucy Blackwell and Jonathan Lowe for showing us around, and Mark Julian for sharing your progress and impressive sites. #Manchester #Innovation #Hub #Transformation #Science #Technology #Cluster

What does real momentum look like? From sustainable labs to community-led placemaking, our latest monthly blog captures the energy of our work across #WestTech London and beyond… Last month we: ✅Visited colleges and labs to spark new partnerships ✅Repaired and reused furniture, making friends in the process ✅Explored how innovation hubs can be truly authentic, not just shiny 📍 Featuring: North Acton Square, #ParkRoyal Design District, Imperial College London’s Digital Media Lab, and more… 🔗 Read the full update here: https://lnkd.in/eTVjFDCv 🗞️ Signup to our monthly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eHjvZTtX #Sustainability #Collaboration #OnePortalWay #Gamification #CircularEconomy #OldOak #WestTech