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Norwich Research Park

The Norwich Research Park (NRP) is a partnership between BBSRC, four world-renowned research institutes, the University of East Anglia, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the John Innes Foundation.

There are 30 innovative companies based in the Norwich BioIncubator, the NRP Innovation Centre and across the Park.

The 160 hectare Park has one of Europe's largest single-site concentrations of research in agri-food, health and environmental sciences. It has a combined research budget of £100M.

Research within the Park addresses the main challenges of the 21st Century:

  • Living with climate change
  • Developing sustainable agriculture
  • Food and bioenergy security
  • Lifelong human health

National research and innovation campus

On Norwich Research Park world-class researchers and research infrastructure are co-located with growing biotechnology enterprises. This provides accommodation for spin-out companies from NRP institutions and gives established bio-SMEs access to world-leading researchers and facilities.

Over 11,000 staff including 3,000 scientists and senior clinicians


The research institutes on the Park are  The Sainsbury Laboratory and 3 of our strategically funded research institutes:

  1. John Innes Centre
  2. Institute of Food Research
  3. The Genome Analysis Centre

Investment project

In 2011, the Government awarded BBSRC £26M to invest in NRP to deliver innovation from the research base and generate economic growth and job creation.

The investment will help to create and support new companies and jobs based on world-leading bioscience. Developments to the Park include:

  • New Centrum Building and commercial space
  • New Enterprise Centre
  • Enhancements to the Innovation Centre
  • Improvements to the car parks, lighting, roads and IT infrastructure
  • Improvements to the highways around the Park
  • The addition of low-cost commercial space

Progress

  • Innovation Centre improvements completed in March 2012
  • Centrum building due to start in September 2012 for completion in March 2014
  • Enterprise Centre due to start in September 2012 for completion in August 2014

Progress in pictures

Artist’s impression of new Centrum building

Artist’s impression of new Centrum building

Artist’s impression of new Enterprise Centre

Artist’s impression of new Enterprise Centre


Images

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Contact

External Relations Unit