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Science and Technology Co-location Faculties for Businesses

Our award winning buildings enable global high-tech, knowledge intensive business to co-locate onto the campus and work alongside our cutting-edge researchers in a unique collaborative environment. Businesses can also join and network with our established local, regional, national and international business communities and tap into a broad range of expertise, support, training and resources on site.

Our Offices ICT sectors and we are interested in Examples include: expanding this to form research Extensive, state-of-the-art research We provide office space and hot-desk • partnerships across all sectors. laboratories space for up to 60 businesses via two dedicated co-location buildings on the We welcome international companies and • Computer aided engineering and campus, the Lancaster Environment work closely with the analysis software Centre and InfoLab21, which won the Trade & Investment (UKTI), the Government • Rapid Manufacturing facilities, national British Council for Offices Best organisation that helps businesses locate accessible as a technology Corporate Workplace prize - the first time in the UK and grow internationally. demonstrator, learning resource and that a university building won the award. operational prototyping and Access Facilities manufacturing facility Benefits of Co-Location Due to our size and diversity we can • A 50-100th scale wave tank, tidal flume and low head hydro test rig Renting offices and integrating all or part of offer research and development facilities a business onto the campus enables faster beyond what most Small and Medium • New £4m class 100 and class 1000 business growth by providing easier Enterprises (SME) might have available. clean room equipped with state of the access to our research, knowledge, events, Through working with our business art equipment including devices for training, and facilities. partnerships managers organisations molecular beam epitaxy, plasma etching, are able to access these facilities in a e-lithography, microresonators, optical Each business is allocated a relationship variety of ways from one off usages to coherence tomography manager to match the business to the regular bookings. appropriate skills and facilities they need. The majority of our companies are currently from the environmental or www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/enterprise FST Co_Location Flyer_2_Layout 1 12/11/2013 17:10 Page 2

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The REACH Centre Ltd Team

Our Location “The REACH Centre would not have been I began working for them in June 2008 and formed without the strategic support my first job was to completely overhaul Lancaster University’s parkland campus provided by the Lancaster Environment the web presence to make it more is situated on the outskirts of the beautiful Centre and would not be sustainable modern and up to date, improving initial and historic , . without the resources made available contact with many of our customers.” Lancashire is in the Northwest of through locating on the campus. There are and has a large and diverse economy The REACH Centre has also received tremendous benefits from locating at the consisting of a strong mix of over 35,000 support from Lancaster University’s university over other business parks both registered companies representing all Management School via two MBA ‘New in terms of the quality of resources the sectors of the UK economy. Lancaster Venture Challenge’ projects and the LEAD building has to offer but more importantly, University is a truly global University, programme. The MBA projects involved in terms of the quality of people which we with over 12,000 students from over small companies teaming up with a group are able to work with, enabling us to utilise 120 countries. Our community extends of experienced Lancaster MBA students the specialist knowledge that the far beyond the Northwest with research, aiming to identify and drive forward a new university can provide.” Jonathan teaching and student exchange stream of business. Lutwyche, CEO of The REACH Centre Ltd. partnerships with leading universities The LEAD programme concentrates on and institutions in 24 countries around The REACH Centre has expanded, both in both the business itself and the personal the world from China to Brazil. terms of personnel and the business development of the owner/manager, itself, with help from graduate recruitment providing a framework to increase Case study: The REACH Centre Ltd and support from the ICT theme. Adam profitability, diversify and grow the Rowntree, Systems Co-ordinator, business. The REACH Centre Ltd was set up graduated from Lancaster University in “The LEAD programme has been the specifically to support registrants in 2005 with a degree in Computer Science. catalyst for us to re-define the way we meeting their duties under REACH “At the start of 2007, I took a job working (legislation governing the use and operate as a business. I have learnt a as a university graduate consultant great deal from other members of the production of chemicals) and to effectively supporting companies here in the North manage and comply with current and cohort enabling me to reflect upon some West. One of the companies we provided key challenges within our business. As a future chemical legislation. The REACH support to was The REACH Centre and it Centre is one of the leading global result The REACH Centre has re-structured was here that I first met Jonathan, one of its operations to allow for further providers of REACH services to industry the directors. and is active in various market sectors. expansion.” Jonathan Lutwyche, The business is based in one of the The REACH Centre Ltd. co-location facilities at Lancaster www.thereachcentre.com University.

For further information contact: Helen Boulton, Buildings Manager, Business Partnerships and Enterprise Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ Science and Technology Tel: +44 (0)1524 510409 Email: [email protected] www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/enterprise