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OXFORDSHIRE LIFE SCIENCES ANDDiscover HEALTHCARE how Oxfordshire is an engine for innovation INVEST IN A DYNAMIC ECOSYSTEM WITH UNLIMITED POTENTIAL Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, one of the world’s leading science and research centres and one of the UK’s Life Sciences Opportunity Zones Courtesy of Harwell Campus 2019 10 REASONS TO CHOOSE OXFORDSHIRE 1. Part of the UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’ of economic 7. Existing infrastructure to support delivery of growth and innovation clinical trials at world recognised centres of excellence 2. Skilled workforce with 50.5% educated to equivalent of degree level or above1 8. Excellent connectivity to London and other core cities through rail and motorway network 3. Easy access to leading experts working at some of world’s greatest research centres 9. Universities and other educational institutions with a focus on health and life sciences provide a 4. Opportunity to collaborate with exciting spin-outs steady stream of talent from the University of Oxford 10. One of the world’s leading innovation hubs with 5. Existing ecosystems at life science hubs facilitate first class connections to other global centres exchange of knowledge and access to facilities through nearby airports 6. Availability of Grade A office and lab space for businesses of all sizes, providing scalability ¹ Labour Market Profile 2018, ONS 3 A GLOBAL HUB OF LIFE SCIENCES INNOVATION Industrial Strategy Oxfordshire Local Industrial Strategy Oxfordshire is one of Europe’s most successful Life Sciences clusters with a track record in establishing and Priorities across the attracting world leading life sciences businesses. Oxford-Cambridge Arc This Local Industrial Strategy has started to set out how shared • Home to the University of Oxford, Oxfordshire is part of the priorities for Oxfordshire fit with a wider range of activity being taken forward locally, regionally and nationally. UK’s ‘Golden Triangle’, forming an area of significant economic The Oxford-Cambridge Arc cuts across Ideas boundaries and affects each of the The Arc has unrivalled science and growth and expertise in Life Sciences and Health, alongside four areas in the Arc in similar ways. technology capabilities – from the These offer government and local renowned research centres in Oxford Cambridge and London. partners the opportunity to act at scale and Cambridge, to their surrounding with a consistent approach across technology campuses such as the Arc and, as with the preceding Harwell, and commercial testbeds • The cluster of Life Sciences and Health companies in local priorities, they can be structured in the ‘Connected Core’ of the Arc. around the foundationsOxfordshire of productivity. Bringing these many assets together Oxfordshire provides a critical mass that spurs innovation `` Ideas – Innovation, including at scale would create a driver of the Future of Mobility. growth and innovation for the UK. through extensive multidisciplinary collaboration. ``People – Skills. Local IndustrialHowever, the Arc is not yet a single innovation ecosystem and has potential Infrastructure - Energy and Digital. `` to drive greater economic growth • The Oxfordshire Local Industrial Strategy positions the ``Business environmentStrategy. and productivity: more can be done ``Places – including Environment. to connect its numerous assets in a county as one of the top-three global innovation ecosystems. manner which demonstrably adds Local partners will workA Partner together in the Oxford-Cambridgevalue. Achieving this will involve Arc both collaboratively across all of these building existing strengths such as It highlights Oxfordshire’s world-leading science and Foundations to ensure that the life sciences and providing the best implementation of theJuly four 2019 Local environment possible for the emergence technology cluster and its unsurpassed potential to be a Industrial Strategies maximises of disruptive technologies. The prize is the economic potential of the higher R&D investment in support of the pioneer for the UK through its emerging transformative wider Arc region as a whole. Industrial Strategy’s 2.4 per cent R&D target, UK leadership in transformative technologies and sectors. technologies, and a continued post- EU Exit future as a global centre for science, research and innovation. • The Oxford-Cambridge Arc will leverage the opportunity for collaboration between the two key economic areas, drawing on their scientific expertise to deliver growth and prosperity. 84 • Foreign owned companies who have expanded or established operations in Oxfordshire during the last three years include Novo Nordisk, Intuitive Surgical, Abbott Diabetes Care, Oxitec (part of Precigen), Evotec, Sysmex, Agilent and Vertex. 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The Oxfordshire cluster spans a whole range of life sciences Incoming businesses can benefit from Oxfordshire’s exciting enterprise including drug discovery and development, and highly successful array of university spin-outs, and the diagnostics, medical devices, digital health, regenerative potential for collaboration. Several of the region’s fastest medicine, precision medicine and genomics. growing companies have grown out of the world leading The University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division run one research of the University of Oxford. of the biggest clinical trial portfolios in the UK. The University sponsors over 1350 academic designed and research led studies both within and outside the EU. THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD IS RANKED NO. 1 UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD The institution has been top of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for four successive years 6 INNOVATION CLUSTERS ACROSS OXFORDSHIRE The county is home to numerous clusters and In addition to existing hubs, new sites have been communities, providing the ideal environment for identified across Oxfordshire for further development, collaboration across multiple disciplines, including: including: • Old Road Campus • Osney Innovation District • John Radcliffe, Nuffield & Churchill Hospitals Quarter • West Oxfordshire Garden Town Science Park • Milton Park • Oxford North • Oxford Science Park • Begbroke Science Park • Science Vale Enterprise Zones • Harwell Campus • Oxford Technology Park Business Park Science Park Enterprise Zone Birmingham Science Vale UK Life SciencesBusiness Park Opportunity Zone Science Park Enterprise Zone BirminghamBanbury Science Vale UK Life Sciences Opportunity Zone Banbury M40 Milton Keynes and Cambridge Chipping Norton Heyford Park Bicester London Oxford Airport M40 Milton Keynes and Cambridge Cheltenham Chipping Norton Oxford Technology Park and Heyford Park Gloucester Bicester Begbroke Science Park Kidlington Burford Witney London Eynsham OXFORDOxford Airport CheltenhamCarterton Oxford Technology Park and Gloucester Oxford Business Park Thame Begbroke Science Park Kidlington Burford Oxford Science Park Culham Science Park Witney Eynsham OXFORD M40 Carterton Faringdon Abingdon Oxford Business Park Thame Abingdon Science Park Oxford Science Park Didcot Howbery Park London Grove Culham Science Park Milton Park Grove Technology Park Wallingford M40 Wantage Faringdon Harwell Oxford Abingdon Swindon Abingdon Science Park Henley on Thames Didcot Howbery Park London Grove Reading Grove Technology Park Milton Park Wallingford Wantage 7 Harwell Oxford Swindon Henley on Thames Reading OUR LIFE SCIENCES COMMUNITY INCLUDES 8 LEADING ADVANCES IN… DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT Therapeutics R&D is at the heart of Oxfordshire’s life science industry, supported by a group of world-class contract research and manufacturing organisations. International biopharma companies with a long-standing presence in the region include Amgen, Aptuit, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. Vertex Pharmaceuticals is a global US owned biotechnology company