East Devon District Council’s Cabinet last night agreed to invest £1.1m in the development of a new Open Innovation Building at Exeter Science Park, in the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone.
The investment will bring forward 20,000 square feet of space under one roof for growing small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) sectors.
Funding has been raised against future business rates income from the growing list of businesses seeking to establish offices and laboratories alongside leading regional science and...
At 9am on Monday 3rd April, the Exeter & East Devon Enterprise Zone opened for business.
The Enterprise Zone will provide business rate relief for new and growing businesses, worth up to £55,000 per business year on year, for up to five years.
This will mean new business growth, new investment, new opportunities for local business and new jobs for local people.
Building on our existing success and vision, the Enterprise Zone will also offer a range of incentives to attract and support businesses to the area. These include simplified planning, business support...
Board of Exeter Science Park has announced the appointment of Dr Sally Basker as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Dr Basker will take up the new role on 3rd April.
Dr Basker is a qualified engineer with 15 year’s senior level research and innovation experience in the aerospace, defence, energy and navigation sectors over her 25-year career.
She has been responsible for crafting business cases, attracting funds and procuring multimillion-pound research facilities, as well as creating and implementing growth and diversification strategies for high-value...
Innovative Exeter-based infrastructure monitoring provider, Dashboard, has been shortlisted for an ‘Internet of Things’ Trailblazers Award. Founded in 2015, Dashboard has quickly secured its reputation as a leading Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure monitoring expert. Starting out in the oil and gas industry, the firm has now diversified into a vast range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure, mining and utilities. Based at the Exeter Science Park Centre, the Dashboard team has grown rapidly over the past year as the team of experts have been reaching out to companies across...
Join Taurus and Fortinet for a morning seminar at Exeter Science Park Centre on 9th February focused on Cyber Security for the Education Sector. The event will have talks on the hottest security topics and open forum discussions with Fortinet’s technical experts.
Fortinet is the only company with security solutions for network, endpoint, application, data centre, cloud and access, designed to work together as an integrated and collaborative security fabric.
Aimed at IT staff, safeguarding officers and head teachers, the...
Exeter Science Park Centre has marked the launch of a new tech incubator initiative with a visit from two tech start-ups from Boston, US, looking for opportunities to expand their businesses in Exeter.
The initiative, Canopy Exeter, is an extension of the well-established model at Canopy Boston, where start-ups, freelancers and mentors come together to help young tech businesses grow.
Based at the Science Park, the Exeter scheme launched on 12th May and is offering the first 100 members free membership and hands on involvement in shaping the initiative, as well as giving...
An advance party of entrepreneurs from Portugal have visited Exeter to research opportunities to accelerate the growth of their companies in the UK in collaboration with Exeter Science Park.
At the same time, British businessman Piers Corfield from the Science Park based tech business Dashboard is in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, to establish new business links there.
The exchange has been organised through Exeter Science Park’s fast-growth business support partner Fabrica de Startups ( www.fabricadestartups.com ), in an initiative designed to build international...
A geo-tagging video technology firm has moved into the Exeter Science Park Centre following incubation in the Innovation Centre at the University of Exeter.
RouteShoot, founded in September 2012, specialises in the production of geo-referenced video and route tracking for public and private sector organisations as well as a wide range of consumers.
The firm works with customers across the world including The World Bank, Premier Utility Services, Mouchel and Worcestershire and Dorset County Councils in the UK. Their move to the purpose-built Exeter Science Park Centre comes...
Exeter Science Park, located to the East of Exeter and just off Junction 29 of the M5, has been laying foundations to become the south west’s beacon of excellence for science and technology.
Over the past six months, the Science Park has covered significant ground in improving the infrastructure and connectivity, securing funding and supporting the growth and development of many of its tenants within the Science Park Centre – an incubation hub to promote innovation and support fast-growth for science and technology businesses and entrepreneurs.
Businesses in Devon are being urged to do more to reduce the hundreds of millions of pounds lost to fraud in the county each year. With procurement fraud now recognised as the second most frequently reported form of economic crime, analysis of figures from the National Fraud Authority carried out by Devon-based blur Group, reveals that £126m a year is lost to fraud by businesses in the county, including £52.6m to procurement fraud. The scale of the wasteful spend means firms are less profitable, have less money to invest in their business and are at risk of losing out to competitors who...
