Universities have a mandate to commercialise their academic research and help their spinouts grow into successful businesses. To do so, they require entrepreneurial infrastructure and the ability to connect to the proper facilities, talent and capital. That’s why they partner with Scale Space, the scaleup community experts.
Why partner with us?
Scale Space is a university-connected workspace dedicated to UK scaleups. Its unique concept brings together excellent facilities, real-life business expertise and access to world-leading universities to create the perfect environment for UK scaleups to grow.
Scale Space is currently partnering with Imperial College London, the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh. It is open to conversations with other innovative Universities that want to help their spinouts to scale successfully.
What’s the benefit for Universities?
Scale Space creates a pathway for university spinouts and entrepreneurship; it provides “living labs” for faculty academics and entrepreneurial exposure and opportunities for students. By helping commercialise university innovation, it generates employment and economic value, demonstrating the impact of university teaching and research.
What’s the benefit for scaleups?
Scaleups in the Scale Space community get access to talent and research through the link to leading universities. They can establish exclusive academic collaborations and tap into universities know-how and top talent.
Scale Space has agreed a partnership with the University of Nottingham in a bid to create a research and innovation powerhouse for Midlands tech scaleups.
The FinTech and Data Innovation Hub will be based at Scale Space Nottingham on Wollaton Street, where a research team from the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences will work alongside fintech and other digitally-driven scaleups to develop technology and business innovations.
There are more than 70 companies based at White City Campus, from start-ups created by Imperial students to scaleups and large corporations. Sitting right alongside Scale Space, you have the Translation and Innovation Hub (I-HUB), which supports knowledge-intensive companies and commercialises scientific research.
Scale Space exists to help entrepreneurial businesses overcome the challenges of scaling up. Participants in the AI Accelerator Programme, now in its second year, benefit from the combined expertise of the University of Edinburgh and Scale Space.
