UKSPA Winter Meeting 2017

Mark Tock

UNIP – A Brownfield Regeneration

Where are we?

Some history: 1995

Raleigh site

GasBAT

1999

Gas

BAT

Raleigh site

Jub

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BAT

2008

Gas

BAT

Jubilee Campus

National College UNIP

The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus & UNIP:

an exemplar of brownfield regeneration

2008

2011

2012

2014

The University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus & UNIP:

From bicycles manufacture to future high tech.

2016 2017 1990

1999

2016

20182016

The Nottingham University Enterprise Zone

1 of 4 DBIS part-funded pilot projects to create places where KE &

business deliver economic impact.

Focus on energy, satellite apps, aerospace, advanced manufacturing,

& digital economy sectors.

£2.6m from DBIS matched with funds from UoN & Haydn Green

Institute.

Deliver 50 new start-ups, £25m GVA, 350 jobs, double number of

companies on site, & attract inward investment……..

…….. 3,000m2 space to house offices & business

engagement activities by 2021.

Ingenuity Centre time lapse

https://youtu.be/H_QWnSGffig

Nottingham University Enterprise Zone: Ingenuity Centre

Ingenuity Centre

• 1,400 m2 lettable commercial space

supporting the growth of tech-driven &

knowledge-intensive start-ups & early

stage SMEs in Nottingham.

• 66% occupied & supporting growth of 22

companies

• 3 anchor tenants specialising in business

engagement & supporting the growth of

start-up businesses.

Ingenuity Centre: home of start-up support in Nottingham

Home to 1 of 6 UK Space Agency-sponsored incubator programmes

supporting 9 start-ups & early stage companies.

Home to Enterprise at Nottingham supporting business creation by students

& alumni, academic spin-outs, & Nottingham-based tech start-ups.

Home to Ingenuity Lab a partnership with the Haydn Green Charitable Trust

supporting circa 190 start-ups & Ingenuity 2017 competition.

Value Added Co-location

With sufficient room to grow

from idea to head quarters

Alongside world-class research

facilities, talent, & a

community of like-minded

entrepreneurs

In landscaped campus

environment with inspiring

architecture.

Value Adding Academic Research Community

Nottingham

Geospatial Institute

Energy Research

Institute

Centre for

Sustainable

Chemistry

3,500 academics & researchers engaged delivering £500m research

Value Added Business Support Networks

UoN local business network

Enabling InnovationNotts Manufacturing Network

BEIS team (Partnerships, BDMs, IP & Commercialisation, and Asia Business teams)

Value Adding Business Community

• Entrepreneurs, researchers, SMEs, 70 tenant businesses employing circa 700 people

plus circa 15 virtual tenants.

• Knowledge-intensive / technology-focussed businesses in the Aerospace, Energy, Big

Data (Satellite Applications), Chemistry, & Digital Sectors.

Digital Aerospace Health Geospatial

Business Challenge Series

Value Adding Business Community

• Managing 11,000m2 lettable commercial space

at >90% occupancy.

• Developing services to meet & exceed client

expectations.

• With a core team of 4.

Where next?

UNIP Now: To enhance business growth and

research impact by enabling co-location in high

quality space, focusing business support, and

facilitating purposeful partnerships with world-

leading research.

Growing UNIP

Local Plan adopted 2004

• 30 acres (+ 15 acres)

• 96,000m2

• 83% acquired land developed

• could enable 2 UoN campuses to almost touch

But it’s more than just buildings ….. it’s about the ecosystem.

Challenges: there may be trouble ahead..

.. or opportunity for those with international reach

E: Mark.Tock@Nottingham.ac.uk

Tw: @UNIP_Mark / @UoNUNIP

WARNING !!!