EEDA - Enterprise Hubs

Enterprise Hubs

Bringing together the region’s knowledge-based industries.

Extensive research from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) shows that businesses which work in isolation are less likely to fulfil their potential and innovate.

As the key to competitiveness in a knowledge economy, our Enterprise Hubs programme is designed to drive innovation by bringing the region’s knowledge-based businesses together.

EEDA is doing this by:

developing and growing a network of Enterprise Hubs across the region to support the region's key knowledge-based sectors, aimed at enhancing technology and knowledge transfer
encouraging the development of networking groups in these key sectors and clusters: to assist small business members through technology collaboration; market information; business support; training opportunities; and supply chain information
supporting the development of a select number of incubators, innovation centres and science parks. These link knowledge-based businesses with higher education, research and development centres of excellence and major companies
encouraging knowledge transfer and ensuring the delivery of innovation support and for all knowledge-based businesses. This helps small businesses to access expertise and advice on the development of new and improved products, services and business processes.

EEDA continues to invest in these developments to ensure they are managed in an economically sustainable way and, secondly, to network them with other centres of innovation in the region, the rest of the UK and abroad.

A number of physical or virtual Enterprise Hubs have been established across key industry sectors and clusters:

Life sciences and healthcare hubs

Babraham Bioscience Technologies (Cambridgeshire) for biomedical
Website: http://www.babraham.com/
Email: info@babraham.co.uk
Telephone: 01223 496004

Colworth Park (Bedfordshire) for food, health and wellness
Website: http://www.colworthpark.com/

BioPark (Hertfordshire) for bioscience and health technology
Website: http://www.biopark.co.uk/
Telephone: 01707 365100

Health Enterprise East (cross-regional) for convergent technologies, healthcare and medical devices
Website: http://www.hee.org.uk/
Email: hee@papworth.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01480 364925

Norwich Research Park Enterprise (Norfolk) for health, food, plant and microbial sciences, environmental sciences, computer and information technologies and chemistry and materials
Website: www.nrp.org.uk
Email: robin.daniels@nrp.org.uk

CardioThoracic BioIncubator (Cambridgeshire) for medical devices and healthcare
Website: www.papworthhospital.nhs.uk/ctbi
Email: bioincubator@papworth.nhs.uk

Low Carbon Innovation Hubs

Environment East (Peterborough) for environmental goods and services
Website: http://www.environmenteast.org.uk/
Email: info@environmenteast.org.uk
Telephone: 01733 294530

The Built Environment (Watford)
Website: http://www.bre.co.uk/
Email: enterprisehub@bre.co.uk

OrbisEnergy (Lowestoft) for offshore renewables (wind, wave and tidal)
Website: http://www.orbisenergy.net/
Email: orbisenergy@nwes.org.uk

Hethel Engineering Centre (Norwich) for advanced engineering and manufacturing
Website: www.hethelcentre.com/
Email: enquiries@hethelcentre.com
Telephone: 01953 859100

Other hubs

My Incubator (Stevenage). Based at the Business and Technology Centre, My Incubator is an Incubation Centre designed to support entrepreneurs and create successful innovative businesses within the knowledge-based sector.
Website: www.myincubator.co.uk
Email: innovation@wenta.co.uk
Telephone: 0138 791002

St John's Innovation Centre (Cambridge) for ICT and hi-tech companies
Website: http://www.stjohns.co.uk/
Email: degill@stjohns.co.uk

East of England Production Innovation Centre (EPIC) (Norwich) for creative industries, particularly digital media
Website: http://www.epic-tv.org/
Email: info@epic-tv.org
Telephone: 01603 727727

Bedford i-lab (Bedford) for ICT, media, biosciences, finance, business services and advanced automotive
Website: http://www.bedfordi-lab.com/
Email: shaun.armstrong@bedfordi-lab.com
Telephone: 01234 834567

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