INCUBATION AND IMPACT How STFC is supporting SMEs

STFC’s business incubation offering is making a real impact on small businesses

Based at the Harwell Oxford and Sci-Tech Daresbury campuses, the Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC), ESA Business Incubation Centre Harwell (ESA BIC) and STFC CERN Business Incubation Centre (STFC CERN BIC) are enabling companies to create jobs, gain investment and develop new innovative products.

% ofincubateesper sector

Incubatees export to

EnergyLife sciences Manufacturing& materials

Digital& creative

Defence& security

Environment& water

NorthAmerica

23%

LatinAmerica

6%

Europe

42%

Other

5%

Asia

26%

40%

2%

31%

9%

7%

7%

4%

183124

Companiessupported

Jobscreated

Investmentachieved

New productscreated

million

100£111

Sector incubatees work in

Other

AWARD WINNING

35%

Company collaborations University collaborations

Collaborating through:

• Research projects

• PhD, MSc students and interns

• Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

• Access to university-fundedprogrammes

• Securing contracts

• Being a customer or supplier

I-TAC – won 4 awards including ‘Most Successful Incubator 2014’

Working together through:

• Technology projects

• Joint market approaches

• Being a customer or supplier

• Using equipment

• Introductions to third partiesfor new business

Campus reputation

Our incubatees join us because

Collaboration opportunities

Easier access to

grants and funding

£

Networking and increased profile

Quality and range of facilities

Location

Access to business support

Incubatees collaborating with other companies on campus

60%Companies collaborating

with a university

Being part of the ESA

BIC Harwell has given us easy access to specialist expertise – there may well be more brain power per

square yard at Harwell than anywhere else in the UK

iGeolise, alumni, ESA BIC Harwell

Top thing I like about being based on campus.. The general air of it being an

exciting & high growth place to be Designed Materials, tenant, I-TAC

Source: STFC campus companies survey 2014

As an SME, access to CERN’s capabilities to support

our ideas is something we could only dream of, and wouldn’t have

been possible without STFCCroft Additive Manufacturing,

incubatee, STFC CERN BIC