Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus is an internationally recognised location for hi-tech businesses and leading-edge science. Through its stakeholders, Daresbury SIC is connected to a global network of scientists and innovators.

Businesses are drawn to the Campus through the Daresbury SIC Network; a membership community of hi-tech SMEs, multi-national corporations and business support organisations. Offering specialist advice and support sessions through the access2experts programme and keeps all network members informed of Campus initiatives through its online News service. This brochure provides further information about the Campus.

Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus will be internationally-recognised for world-class science, innovation and enterprise.

Successful collaborations through the Campus will help the world-class science stimulate prosperous knowledge-based businesses and highly skilled employment.

The Future

The next phase of development is the plan to build a grow-on facility for larger and more established companies. This is the first step in an ambitious 30 year masterplan being progressed to expand across a 300 ha site creating a 'technology village' and a home to some 10,000-15,000 people working in science and technology.

The Daresbury Innovation Centre is situated at the heart of the Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC).

Having rapidly become a magnet for world class science and innovation, this stunningly designed building provides a superb location for hi-tech SMEs and forms a focal point of the powerful Daresbury SIC network and offers access to seminars and events.

This brochure contains information on the following; the location, office and campus facilities, floor plans, funding information and terms of use.

Due for completion in 2011, Vanguard House will occupy a key location on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus which is at the heart of the Government’s science and innovation strategy. Established in 2006, Daresbury is one of two national science and innovation campuses.

Vanguard House is a major new 3,300 sq m (36,000 sq ft) facility providing office, laboratory and workshop space in units between 94 sq m - 231 sq m (1,000 sq ft - 2,450 sq ft).

Each year the Campus carries out a survey of tenant companies to provide a measure of performance - both of the companies themselves and of the Campus in its mission to assist them.

This leaflet highlights some of the key findings from the 2008 survey which reports on the financial year 2007-08.

Now lauded as a major driver of the regional economy, Daresbury SIC was established to help drive regional and national competitiveness in science and innovation. It is one
of only two Government-funded science and innovation campuses in the UK and has an ambitious masterplan for the Campus and surrounding area.

The Campus provides a spacious and attractive location to stage that important business meeting or conference.

The Campus' conference facilities are located in three adjacent buildings at the centre of the Campus. Each building offers a comprehensive range of facilities and is easily accessible from each of the other venues. There is ample car parking.

There are over 30 rooms available on Campus, a key selection of which is shown here. This brochure also shows the various services that are on offer.

The STFC Innovations Technology Access Centre (ITAC) offers flexible and affordable access to a wide range of cutting-edge scientific equipment in 16 fully-equipped biological, imaging, materials and physical science laboratories, providing businesses and researchers with the ideal environment to carry out high-tech research and development work.

Further information can be found in the STFC ITAC brochure.

The critical mass of expertise on Campus acts as a magnet to organisations active in the sector, drawn to Daresbury SIC by its vast pool of knowledge and collaborative research and development opportunities. Around one fifth of all Campus companies are active in the advanced engineering sector with the sector also well represented in the wider network.

The North West is home to over 200 biomedical companies and seven multinational pharmaceutical companies. The Campus is ideally positioned to engage with partners that are active in meeting the requirements of the sector. The Daresbury SIC network provides companies with an ecosystem perfectly suited to the needs of growing biomedical businesses. The Biomedical brochure is available to view here.

Daresbury SIC is one of two national Science & Innovation Campuses, the other being Harwell SIC. This pairing, known as the 'dipole', enables any organisation engaging with one Campus to have access to the facilities of both. Daresbury SIC will continue to be a key location for chemicals organisations, principally through the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry which will provide a national centre of expertise to drive innovative, multi disciplinary research and knowledge transfer for companies of all sizes. Further information can be found in the Chemicals and Specialities brochure.

Daresbury SIC occupies a powerful position in both the supercomputing and digital and creative industries. As a leading UK supercomputing facility it offers high performance and distributed computing and data services, suitable for small and large organisations. Find out more about the Digital/ICT sector in this brochure.

STFC manages a number of leading-edge facilities which are of key importance to the energy sector. It provides this capability through its large scientific facilities at Daresbury and its sister Campus at Harwell. The pairing of the Campuses, known as the 'dipole', enables any organisation engaging with one Campus to have access to the facilities of both. Further information can be found in the Energy sector brochure.