INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE SPACES CONTENTS INNOVATION AND Introduction 3 ENTERPRISE SPACES Imperial Enterprise Lab 4 March 2018 Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH) 6 The Invention Rooms 8 The Translation & Innovation Hub (I-HUB) 10 White City Incubator 12 Central Working 14 Scale Space 16 Imperial Innovations 18 The Partnership for Growth & Innovation 20 Map of innovation and enterprise ecosystem at Imperial 22 Contacts 23
2 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Contents INTRODUCTION Professor David Gann CBE, Vice President (Innovation)
It gives me great pleasure to introduce Innovation and Enterprise Spaces at Imperial College London. This brochure provides an overview of Imperial’s dedicated places where we realise our vision of co-location, experimentation and co-creation. IMPERIAL’S INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Imperial College London has a long history The following pages highlight seven of supporting an innovation ecosystem innovative and entrepreneurial spaces to foster engagement with businesses, at Imperial that are a crucial part of other institutes, researchers and funders. our community and which enrich our Our South Kensington Campus has been a world-class innovation ecosystem: The hub for innovation, entrepreneurship and Enterprise Lab, Imperial College Advanced enterprise for many decades. We provide HackSpace (ICAH), The Invention Rooms, a full suite of services and programmes the Translation & Innovation Hub (I-HUB), to support ideation, incubation, business Imperial White City Incubator, Central growth acceleration and collaboration Working and Scale Space. with industry partners. It is also pleasing that Imperial Innovations We have designed a new innovation continues to support Imperial in campus at White City. Facilities are commercialising research, forming already open for scientists, engineers, spin-outs and managing incubation. medics, businesses and the community to co-locate, prototype ideas and build new This brochure also shows how a new business opportunities. They are being partnership with the London Borough of joined by institutions, major corporations, Hammersmith & Fulham is supporting start-ups, spin-outs and venture funders economic growth, enterprise and creating a vibrant neighbourhood rooted innovation at the White City Campus and in discovery and innovation. across the Borough.
I am immensely proud of our achievements at South Kensington and White City. I hope that this brochure gives you a flavour of being part of Imperial’s innovation ecosystem and inspires you to become involved with us.
Introduction _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 3 Supporting Imperial College London’s next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. …that’s at the heart of everything the Imperial Enterprise Lab does. Through serendipity, pedagogy, and community, Imperial Enterprise Lab aims to “maximise the impact of Imperial’s dynamic enterprising culture in which everyone has the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and experience to translate their ideas from science and technology into practice”. IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE LAB
Opened in October 2016, it occupies WE Innovate The VCC is now in it’s fifth year, is a brand new space in the basement of The WE Innovate Programme is a personal powered by one of the UK’s leading the Sherfield Building, underneath the and professional entrepreneurship venture builders – Blenheim Chalcot. The College Library. Stepping into the Lab, programme designed to encourage more VCC offers team coaching, workshops, one is confronted with a bright vision female entrepreneurs at the College. The masterclasses and professional of the future, a pristine white space programme is now in its fourth year, and business coaching. Alumni from the 2017 with super-sized, state-of-the-art, comprises a series of workshops with programme have gone on to present touchscreen displays. Whiteboards form high-profile speakers and tailored at NASA, win places on prestigious half the walls, carrying the scribbles and one-to-one support, as well as a accelerator programmes and raise flowcharts and drawings of students competition which awards £30,000 considerable private investment. Nikita developing their ideas, and one wall funding in total to its winners and Thakrar – Innovation & Entrepreneurship is peppered with sticky notes left by runner-ups. One programme’s alumna, Manager says ‘It’s such an honour to see students looking for team members. Christina Petersen, has closed a £50,000 how much these amazing teams grow The Lab provides a hangout space for Kickstarter campaign for her start-up, LYS and develop over the course of the six students who need somewhere to work Technologies. Pae Natwilai, who was week programme. on their projects; on a typical afternoon, among the first cohort, has enjoyed huge it is filled with students in groups or on competition success, being named in the Alongside these two flagship their own, typing away on their laptops or Forbes 30 Under 30 and winning £50,000 programmes the Imperial Enterprise discussing their ideas. The Lab designs from Innovate UK for her start-up GetTrik. Lab supports many other initiatives serendipity in this way: if you come down Olivia Standish, Innovation & which are crucial to inspire and develop to the work in the Lab, you might just Entrepreneurship Manager notes ‘The our students’ entrepreneurial spirit. meet someone else with the skills to help Programme has supported over 100 Liz Choonara, Manager - Community you with your project. female entrepreneurs since its inception & Programmes, oversees the different and continues to go from strength to offerings, and has recently been working The Lab also contains a unique strength. I am constantly astounded by on the Cross-CDT Dragon’s Den. This innovation: The Performance Simulator. the quality of the entrepreneurs that come programme brings together four Centres The simulator is run in collaboration through the WE Innovate Programme.’ for Doctoral Training (CDTs): High with the Royal College of Music, who Performance Embedded and Distributed helped develop the early prototypes. The Venture Catalyst Challenge Systems, Neurotechnology, Mathematics simulator gives students the experience Through the annual Venture Catalyst of Planet Earth, and Sustainable Civil of pitching to a panel of judges, Challenge (VCC), student teams test Engineering. It is an opportunity for increasing their confidence and helping the commercial viability of their students to work together over a period them with their pitching skills. early-stage science and technology of five months and exchange ideas ideas, with the potential to win from a and knowledge from different areas of prize fund of £40,000. research, and to potentially win £5,000.
4 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Imperial Enterprise Lab Our programmes are designed to inspire BEN MUMBY-CROFT Director students and others from all disciplines Entrepreneurship to develop their entrepreneurial mind-set
IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE LAB and apply it in the real world.
Imperial Venture Mentoring Service invited to monthly Innovation Pitch The Performance Simulator In addition to our entrepreneurial events to hear student pitches and programmes the Imperial Enterprise Lab network with students from the Dyson in Imperial’s Enterprise Lab launched in 2017 the IVMS. School of Design Engineering and the is a unique experiential Imperial College Business School, and The Imperial Venture Mentoring Service we regularly bring external guests into learning facility that (IVMS) is Imperial’s first mentoring the Lab to speak to students about their allows students to develop programme, supporting the next entrepreneurial journeys: we recently generation of innovators and hosted Charles Rolls, Imperial alumnus impactful pitching and entrepreneurs with an elite group of and co-founder of Fever-Tree. presentations skills. industry mentors. The objective is to provide Imperial’s growing population The Lab provides business coaching to Working with this facility of entrepreneurial students and staff Imperial College student entrepreneurs gives me the opportunity with unbiased advice and expertise to help guide them through the early through a structured mentorship landscape of starting a company. The to help students putting programme which helps these ventures Enterprise Lab’s team of business theory into practice. realise their true potential. The IVMS is coaches comes from a diverse modelled on the successful MIT version background from cleantech to retail DR TERRY CLARK of the programme which has been and can help support a student venture Research Fellow in Performance Science, running for 20 years and includes unique through business model development Royal College of Music elements such as team mentoring. to investor readiness.
In addition to designing and delivering Enterprise Week new programmes, the Lab is constantly In order to celebrate our innovators expanding in other ways. We are building and entrepreneurs, and showcase a global enterprise network, starting in the outcomes of enterprising student Singapore and the US and continuing to initiatives across the College, the TO FIND OUT MORE: other parts of the world, and through this Lab has worked closely with other [email protected] network, we can connect enterprising professional services at Imperial to +44 (0)20 7594 1964 students who have great ideas with put together a week of events. www.imperialenterpriselab.com alumni who have the experience of Enterprise Week features the WE seeing similar ideas to fruition. We also Innovate and Venture Catalyst engage with external members of the Challenge final in addition to a range London entrepreneurial ecosystem so of complementary events showcasing that students can build contacts within enterprise support, activities and the wider community. Investors are outcomes around the College.
Imperial Enterprise Lab _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 5 Established in 2014, the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace (ICAH) has helped transform the ideation and prototyping landscape at the College. Burgeoning to over 2,000 members, this number is growing at a rate of 100 new members every month. IMPERIAL COLLEGE ADVANCED HACKSPACE (ICAH) Turn your ideas into a reality.
Advanced Hackspace members come Initially starting off with six ideation and from all faculties and all levels, from hackspaces at the South Kensington undergraduate to alumni, within the Campus Advanced Hackspace has College. In addition to this core group further extended its world class of stakeholders, Advanced Hackspace capabilities by opening a new bespoke also engages strongly with commercial facility at The Invention Rooms in 2017 organisations – from micro companies at White City. This network of spaces and SMEs through to large scale will be further enhanced when FABRICA, corporate partners – and the local a new bio- and molecular hackspace community. comes online in the Molecular Sciences Research Hub just across the road from Fundamentally, Advanced Hackspace’s the Invention Rooms. This network of mission is to deliver skills, resources Advanced Hackspace spaces houses and people to support its members prototyping technologies, bespoke and partners in the development and commercial that are not available of new ideas and their transition to in concert elsewhere in the world and and from other commercialisation represents one of the largest such networks within the university such facilities of its kind in the world. as the Enterprise Lab and the Imperial College Incubator. As such Advanced From robotics to microfluidics, additive Hackspace provides access to a unique manufacturing, molecular synthesis, network of workshops, laboratories and electronics, woodwork, coding and co-location spaces across Imperial. synthetic biology the Advanced Hackspace has supercharged the ideation and innovation pipelines in college. It is able to support the concept of “making” in its broadest sense.
6 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Advanced Hackspace ‘Our vision is for the Advanced Hackspace to be recognised as one of the best places in the world to turn an idea into reality’
PROFESSOR OSCAR CES Co-Director of ICAH
Products and service: During these events, ideas that are Through the Advanced Hackspace, generated are validated and transformed members from inside and outside the into working prototypes thereby College benefit from access to these providing a unique route for high- prototyping technologies, training throughput proof of concept filtration classes, networking opportunities, for external partners-this significantly booster funding, mentoring and de-risks downstream investment in technology showcases. emergent solutions.
In these creative facilities, Imperial A typical Hackathon will bring together staff, students, alumni and commercial at least 100-150 multi-disciplinary partners from different disciplines work researchers working together to deliver together to rapidly convert research ~10-20 solutions during a single event. ideas into breakthrough prototype These participants are carefully selected products and solutions. This environment from the Hackspace community of over is supported by a regular series of 2,000 researchers once the Hackathon Hackathons, events during which has been advertised. Participation in technologists, innovators and scientists these events is heavily over-subscribed TO FIND OUT MORE: work together to develop solutions guaranteeing access to the requisite for defined challenges from industry expertise and bandwidth needed to [email protected] in a scale fast fail fast framework. deliver a successful event. www.imperial.ac.uk/advanced- Hackathons represent a step change in hackspace/ the pace at which technology innovation can be undertaken, fusing idea- generation/creativity events with intense prototyping sessions.
Advanced Hackspace _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 7 Reach Out Makerspace
The Invention Rooms is a new space for innovation and the community in White City. Here you can find cutting-edge workshops, design studios and interactive spaces for collaboration with the local community and our partners. THE INVENTION ROOMS A beacon for community-driven innovation.
A two minute walk from White City underground station, The Invention Rooms is a pioneering space where people from all ages and backgrounds can work together to develop ideas into breakthrough prototypes. Under one roof, you can find cutting-edge prototyping workshops, design studios, and interactive spaces that are supporting new ways of working with the community and our partners.
Here the community can join us for a range of interactive events, activities and programmes to share in the wonder of science, making and discovery. The Invention Rooms is a collaborative space where people from all walks of life can work together on addressing both local and global challenges. Our goal is to inspire generations of inventors, entrepreneurs and makers from White Advanced Hackspace City and beyond.
There are three main spaces within the Invention Rooms. These are:
Reach Out Makerspace A workshop and design studio for young people from the local community to get hands-on experience of making and prototyping.
8 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Invention Rooms Reach Out Makerspace
Reach Out Makerspace
The Reach Out Makerspace is a unique biology and molecular fabrication. The The Invention Rooms immersive environment for young Advanced Hackspace, which also offers people to experiment, design and touchdown spaces and design studios, is an exciting new innovate. It includes cutting-edge provides access to both commercial chapter in White City technology such as 3D printers, laser prototyping technologies, as well as cutters, and wood and metalwork cutting-edge systems that are not yet Campus where we aim machinery, as well as equipment for commercially available and have been to inspire, raise crafts and textiles. It is home to a range created within Imperial itself. of maker challenge programmes that give aspirations, innovate young people the opportunity to make Interaction Zone and enable people to anything from wearable technology to At the heart of The Invention Rooms is household gadgets. the Interaction Zone where the local realise their ideas. community and the College can come PROFESSOR MAGGIE DALLMAN OBE Ideas developed by the first cohort of together to share ideas. Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships) students included a generator that and Vice President (International) converts water movement into electricity Opening in late summer 2018, the using magnets, a foldable skateboard and Interaction Zone will consist of a café, a drone that can take off both vertically events space, and a garden terrace. and horizontally. The space will host a diverse range of events and activities including science The Advanced Hackspace workshops, tech drop-in sessions, A unique one-stop workshop facility coding clubs, evening classes, and TO FIND OUT MORE: for staff, students and alumni to social events. The Interaction Zone is access specialist prototyping and going to be a unique addition to the life [email protected] manufacturing equipment. of the community. www.imperial.ac.uk/white-city- campus/community/the- This space is the newest addition to invention-rooms/ the network of workspaces that make up the Imperial College Advanced Hackspace. It includes everything from workshop technologies such as robotics, microfluidics and digital fabrication, to a bio lab which enables synthetic
Invention Rooms _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 9 The White City Campus brings together an exciting community of start-ups, spin- outs, major corporations, high-tech and high-growth companies, collaborating with our researchers to translate cutting-edge research into practical applications. The I-HUB provides bespoke offices and laboratory facilities for businesses. THE TRANSLATION & INNOVATION HUB (I-HUB) A new home for innovation and collaboration.
New innovate district in London Imperial is currently developing Businesses already based at the I-HUB The White City Campus is Imperial’s ninth proposals for the southern site of the include AVADO Learning, a cutting- Campus in London, and is less than three White City campus, which will include edge, digital training and education miles from its home in South Kensington. more academic hubs and facilities for programmes developer; Mapi/ICON, a Across 23 acres in White City, Imperial commercial and research partners. leading patient centred health outcomes is leading a £2 billion investment to research and commercialisation group; develop a new campus dedicated to First co-location building at the White and MiNA Therapeutics, a pioneer in RNA research and innovation in science, City Campus activation therapeutic. engineering, medicine and business. At Across 187,000 sq ft, the Translation White City, Imperial College ThinkSpace & Innovation Hub (I-HUB) provides a Space to think, room to grow already hosts more than 70 companies home for businesses to work directly Operated by Imperial College including start-ups, spin-outs like DNA alongside Imperial’s academics, to ThinkSpace, the I-HUB has the facilities Electronics and Autolus, and globally share ideas and turn scientific and to support a range of commercial recognised companies. technological discoveries into new partners, from major corporations, products and services. Professor David high-tech and high-growth companies Two multidisciplinary research facilities, Gann, Vice President (Innovation), said to SMEs, start-ups, spin-outs and the Molecular Science Research Hub “Businesses in the I-HUB will be focused entrepreneurs. and the Michael Uren Biomedical on taking fantastic research ideas out Engineering Research Hub are opening into the market where they can have Key features of the I-HUB include a on the northern site of the campus. There a direct positive impact for society. mix of fully-fitted and flexible offices is accommodation for postgraduate This is another chapter in Imperial and lab spaces, as well as scale-up students ‘GradPad Wood Lane Studios’ College’s mission to apply the results facilities. Flexible tenancy options ensure and a residential tower for private rental of our excellent research and education commercial partners can choose an will open in 2019. in science, engineering, medicine and agreement that suits their needs and businesses for the benefit of society.” stage of growth.
10 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Translation & Innovation Hub The I-HUB helps businesses DR EULIAN ROBERTS CEO Imperial College to reach new heights as they ThinkSpace benefit from co-location with
Imperial’s leading academics and the wider London research community.
Based in the I-HUB, the two-storey London’s broader innovation network Imperial White City Incubator provides Businesses at the I-HUB benefit not spaces and networking support to just from co-location with Imperial’s technology and research focused researchers and partners, but from young companies. Dr Eulian Roberts, access to the vibrant scientific and CEO Imperial College ThinkSpace, said technology community in West “Establishing the incubator facilities in the London. Stephen Cowan, the leader I-HUB is more than just about providing of Hammersmith & Fulham Borough physical space. The incubator offers a Council, said at the launch of the I-HUB, great platform for start-up businesses “The I-HUB is a hugely exciting addition that need laboratory infrastructure to to White City, providing a massive boost enable them to commercialise their for business and scientific research. products and services.” It will pitch the brightest Imperial College London brains alongside In collaboration with Imperial College cutting-edge businesses and help foster ThinkSpace, Central Working in the Hammersmith & Fulham a fantastic I-HUB provides co-working spaces and place to learn, work, create and invest.” support to the West London’s tech and enterprise community. The members Imperial White City Campus will have access to Imperial’s extensive TO FIND OUT MORE: network of researchers, academics and other corporate partners as well as the [email protected] wider Central Working network. This new +44 (0)20 7594 5155 community will provide a dynamic and www.imperial.ac.uk/thinkspace evolving network of talent, innovation, discovery and resources for companies at every stage of development.
Translation & Innovation Hub _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 11 Imperial White City Incubator is a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, providing office, laboratory space and support for early-stage companies. WHITE CITY INCUBATOR London office and lab space for deep science companies.
The two-storey 18,000 sq ft Incubator In a little over a year since its launch in There are also virtual tenants and facility contains 10 laboratories, 12 October 2016, there has been striking students, groups that Graham offices, meeting rooms and break-out progress made at the Imperial White values because of the buzz they bring. areas. This state of the art premises City Incubator, though some things have “Having so many entrepreneurs in the opened on White City Campus in 2016, remained steadfast. space is great for cross-fertilisation and forms a key part of London’s newest of ideas, for making contacts and for innovation district, making it an ideal “Yes, there’s a lot of development going sharing expertise.” location for young start-up companies on in White City!” says Graham Hewson, focused on science and technology. the Head of Incubation for Imperial Introducing the shared lab model Innovations, which provides incubation Vicky Kilcoyne, Executive Director, The Incubator contains a true services to the IWCI. But this only shows Enterprise, says “We have reduced the entrepreneurial community who share the the scope of Imperial College London’s barriers to entry even further for early experience of developing a deep science ambition for the White City Campus, a stage start-ups by introducing a shared business. Imperial Innovations runs a sprawling site in West London. wet lab with a rent-a-bench pricing programme of seminars and events at model. This allows biotech and cleantech the Incubator, designed specifically for Sitting within the Translation and founders to get going at minimal cost, entrepreneurs and inventors. Innovation Hub, an 11-storey home to whilst they raise further funding. incubation, acceleration and grow- Encouragingly, we have already seen the Imperial White City Incubator (IWCI) is on space for high-tech companies, first case of “graduation” from the shared a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial the Imperial White City Incubator has lab to a dedicated lab in the incubator.” College London with Imperial Innovations achieved much in the past 16 months. providing incubation services. Imperial Support and Training Innovations is the technology transfer “We’re now at almost 100% occupancy” Events and training courses have played office for Imperial College London, and says Hewson, describing a whirlwind an important role in the developing forms part of IP Group plc. year of dealing with enquiries, ecosystem, and Hewson is particularly interviewing prospective tenants, and proud of the range of accelerator and signing them up. Looking around the skills programmes that have helped out Incubator, at groups using breakout young companies. areas and at seemingly impromptu offices set up in meeting rooms. It seems to be creating a thriving atmosphere.
12 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Imperial White City Incubator “We’ve now run the White City Taken as an overview, the Imperial White Innovators Programme twice, with the City Incubator has supported hundreds of support of NatWest. This is a short entrepreneurs and future business leaders accelerator programme for young in its first 16 months of operation, as well companies through which they learn a as providing a home to a diverse range of range of skills, culminating in a pitch high-tech businesses. Hewson is proud event with professional investors. As of this achievement, but he looks forward well as Imperial-based companies, to doing more: “We’re always looking to it’s also open to the local community, expand the range of events and support which is an important part of Imperial’s we offer to tenants and members of the mission for the White City Campus.” Imperial community. We’re proud of this first year-and-a-bit, but we want to continue In addition to programmes like as a leading incubator and help to support this, the Innovation Academy, run Imperial’s growing reputation in this space.” by Imperial Innovations and in partnership with White City Incubator Since opening in late 2016: Ltd has now provided business and entrepreneurship skills training to • The White City Incubator physically hundreds of members of the Imperial incubates 15 companies, half of TO FIND OUT MORE: community. “We’re aiming to furnish which are connected with Imperial [email protected] the next-generation of academic College London +44 (0)208 8811 6730 entrepreneurs with the business • 10 virtual clients use the Incubator knowledge they need to complement www.imperialincubator.com their technical expertise and thereby • We are hosting the latest Rebel Bio support the next-generation of Cohort of 10 international teams technology companies from an early • Since 2016 companies within the stage,” notes Hewson. Incubator have raised over £81.5
million in funding bringing the amount of investment into Imperial Incubator companies to over £681 million pounds since 2006
Imperial White City Incubator _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 13 Imperial College ThinkSpace and award-winning workspace provider Central Working opened the doors of the first co-working space at the I-HUB in White City that will leverage the West London’s tech and enterprise community. CENTRAL WORKING More than just an office. A unique workspace where you can grow together.
Central Working’s network of nine Services on site beautifully designed clubs across the Central working White City offers UK (Bloomsbury, City, Farringdon, virtual office spaces, hot-desking areas Paddington, Shoreditch, Victoria, and meeting rooms. All the White City Manchester, Cambridge and White City) members will have access to Central provide businesses of all sizes with the Working’s wider network of nine UK sites, environment, community and support to as well as Imperial’s extensive network of thrive. Members have the option of hot researchers, academies, other corporate desking, securing a permanent office or partners and specific guidance to help using a collaborative workspace. your business grow.
The network is built around an understanding that businesses require TO FIND OUT MORE: much more than just office space and WiFi to grow. The Central Working team [email protected] works closely with members to create +44 (0)20 3095 6449 an environment in which they can meet, www.centralworking.com share and collaborate.
14 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Central Working Central Working _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 15 Imperial College ThinkSpace is creating an exciting new technology and innovation space in collaboration with Hammersmith based digital venture builder Blenheim Chalcot. SCALE SPACE Where technology and digital businesses innovate and grow.
Imperial College ThinkSpace have partnered with digital venture builder Blenheim Chalcot to build ‘Scale Space’, a 243,000 sq ft development within the south side of White City Campus. The new technology and innovation centre will be the first stage of the White City South Campus development and will be the place where technology and digital businesses innovate and grow, supporting economic development The plan for Scale Space is to be at the World-class research and talent in the area. forefront of co-location ideology and Businesses will have the benefit of contemporary office design to capture being at the forefront of research on new Scale Space is a place where the attention of digital and high-tech technologies, with access to Imperial’s businesses work alongside leaders companies. There will be a number of eminent scientist and experts. in research, innovation and business shared amenity and collaboration areas for building. As well as providing businesses to connect and grow together. Business-building expertise space for new, high growth, high- Meeting rooms, event spaces and an Business will work with Imperial and technology companies the £50 onsite café will help fuel creative thought. Blenheim Chalcot, the UK’s leading million Scale Space will house parts digital business builder, who has built of Imperial and many of Blenheim Welcoming the announcement of the over 40 companies with portfolio Chalcot’s businesses, which currently joint venture in February 2018, Matt annual sales over £300 million in the include Agilisys, ClearScore, Hancock MP (the Secretary of State for past 20 years. SalaryFinance, Fospha and Modulr. Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) said “This ambitious project will help cement London’s position as Europe’s tech capital and is another vote of confidence in our world-leading digital economy”.
16 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Scale Space An innovation community Space to grow TO FIND OUT MORE: Scale Space will be a home to With units from 5,000 sq ft upwards entrepreneurs, high-growth, early to whole floors of 25,000 sq ft, [email protected] stage tech businesses and a wide Scale Space is well positioned to +44 (0)20 7594 5155 range of researchers and academics. accommodate ‘tenants’ future needs. www.scalespace.co.uk Scale Space will support organisations The offices can be customised to meet to create a network within the tech and occupies requirements with the option creative community. of CAT A finished or Shell & Core space designed for lab facilities. There will be also plenty of shared space for innovation, collaboration and events.
Scale Space _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 17 Imperial Innovations is the technology commercialisation partner for Imperial College London. With a focus on societal and economic impact, Innovations develops and commercialises technologies developed by Imperial staff. IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS Technology commercialisation for the Imperial community.
Imperial Innovations works exclusively The Venture support unit and with Imperial College London to founders choice develop, protect and commercialise Since inception in 1986 it has been novel technologies through licensing to Imperial Innovations’ mission to established companies or start-ups. support Imperial in commercialising technology – either through licensing or Our relationship with Imperial College through forming new companies. London is covered by a technology pipeline agreement that grants us Building spinout companies has exclusive commercialisation rights over developed into an important focus for unencumbered intellectual property Imperial Innovations and we have a developed at the College. dedicated Venture Support Unit which works with people across the Imperial In an average year, we assess around community providing the advice, 400 inventions disclosed by Imperial expertise, funding and general support staff, complete 30-40 licence deals, required to create and sustain world- form 10+ new companies and file changing businesses. patents on 60 new technologies. In August 2017, we launched the In addition to working with Imperial Founders Choice programme with the College London, we provide technology support of Imperial College London. transfer services to select NHS Trusts in In a first for any UK university, we London linked with the College. began giving the founders of academic spinouts a choice about the support Innovations is a subsidiary of IP Group they receive, and the equity they retain, plc, the developer of intellectual in their new company. property-based businesses.
18 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Imperial Innovations Two routes are available. Founder Statistics: TO FIND OUT MORE: Driven, in which academics retain up • Over 150 spin-out companies formed to 95% of founding equity, but must [email protected] take on a greater level of development • Over £1 billion raised by Imperial +44 (0)20 3053 8850 responsibility. Or Jointly Driven, under spin-out companies www.imperialinnovations.co.uk which we provide a full support service • Over 1000 patents currently under to the founders. management The Founder Driven route is similar to the • Over 550 licences signed approach taken by leading US universities • Over 100 companies supported such as Stanford and MIT, which are through Imperial Incubator facilities renowned for the quality of the companies they create, and we believe it has the • 40 company acquisitions and IPOs potential to be successful in the UK.
Alongside Founders Choice, the Venture Support Unit provides a range of tailored support to spinouts and student start-ups across the College including providing incubation services to the Imperial White City Incubator. It is involved in a range of technology accelerator activities, such as Techcelerate and the White City Innovators’ Programme, and it also provides rigorous training support for aspiring entrepreneurs through the Innovation Academy which is delivered at the Imperial White City Incubator.
Imperial Innovations _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ 19 Professor Alice Gast, President of Imperial College
Launched in July 2017, the partnership aims to create a vibrant network of start-ups, scale-ups and corporate businesses who are proud to call White City, Shepherds Bush, Hammersmith and Fulham home. THE PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH & INNOVATION The partnership for growth and innovation between Hammersmith & Fulham Council and Imperial College London will support economic growth, enterprise and innovation in the area.
Supporting the innovation An Enterprise Advisory Group, made The Partnership forms part of ecosystem in White City of up thought leaders in innovation Hammersmith and Fulham Council’s Imperial and Hammersmith & Fulham from Imperial, Hammersmith and broader Industrial Strategy, ‘Economic are working together to support the Fulham and local tech and creative Growth for Everyone’, launched last development of a world-class innovation sectors, sets the strategic direction year at the I-HUB on Imperial’s White ecosystem in White City through close for the Partnership. City Campus, which aims to position collaboration between academics, the borough as the best place to do all types of businesses, entrepreneurs By fusing the capabilities of Imperial business in Europe. and the local community. College London as a leading research university together with the skills, This unique Partnership has ambitions talents and expertise of the community TO FIND OUT MORE: to position the borough as a beacon in Hammersmith and Fulham we can of innovation and economic growth support local enterprise and continue [email protected] on the European and global stage. to attract dynamic STEM companies Exceptional transport links (20 minutes to the area The Partnership will be from Heathrow, 14 tube stations, HS2/ successful only with the help and Crossrail station at Old Oak Common support of the residents, innovators, and Park Royal) make the borough a entrepreneurs and businesses who great place to live and work. are based in the borough.
20 _ Innovation and Enterprise Spaces _ Growth & Innovation Partnership Cllr Stephen Cowan, Leader of the London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham
CLLR STEPHEN COWAN We’re determined to build a local economy that works Leader of the London for all. Working with Imperial Collage London, we’re borough of Hammersmith & Fulham putting all the factors in place to make Hammersmith & Fulham the best place to start and grow a business.
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A501 Kings Cross A1202 IMPERIAL ENTERPRISE LAB M25 [email protected] Regents Park +44 (0)20 7594 1964 www.imperialenterpriselab.com A11 A40 IMPERIAL COLLEGE ADVANCED HACKSPACE (ICAH) A13 [email protected] www.imperial.ac.uk/advanced-hackspace/ A312 Moorgate A406 LONDON EALING Paddington THE INVENTION ROOMS Station [email protected] A13 WHITE CITY A4202 A40 CAMPUS www.imperial.ac.uk/white-city-campus/ community/the-invention-rooms/ Notting Hill Piccadilly White Hyde Park Circus THE TRANSLATION & INNOVATION HUB (I-HUB) City Charing Cross [email protected] +44 (0)20 7594 5155 1 2 8 www.imperial.ac.uk/thinkspace Shepherds Waterloo Bush WHITE CITY INCUBATOR A100 [email protected] SOUTH KENSINGTON +44 (0)208 8811 6730 CAMPUS www.imperialincubator.com CANARY Victoria M4 M4 CENTRAL WORKING WHITE CITY A3220 WHARF A4 South Kensington [email protected] +44 (0)20 3095 6449Elephant www.centralworking.com& Castle
SCALE SPACE A2 [email protected] +44 (0)20 7594 5155 www.scalespace.co.uk
IMPERIAL INNOVATIONS [email protected] +44 (0)20 3053 8850 A202 www.imperialinnovations.co.uk
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH & INNOVATION [email protected] A3 A20 RICHMOND
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WIMBLEDON M25 M3 GRADE A OFFICES AND LABORATORIES at Imperial College London’s new White City campus
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Translation & Innovation Hub (I-Hub) 80 Wood Lane, White City, London, W12 0BZ
// Translating scientific ideas into value // An inspirational space for research and business // Advancing collaborations // 18,000 m2 NIA on new Innovation District Development // 8 mins walk from Central, Hammersmith & City and Circle lines
To find out more contact Imperial College ThinkSpace: +44 (0)20 7594 5155 [email protected]