HARWELL SPACE MultidisciplinaryCLUSTER Innovation CONTENTS HARWELL FOREWORD CAMPUS 2 Harwell Campus 4 Success of the Harwell Space Cluster 6 Multidisciplinary Innovation 5,500people 8 Building the Harwell Space Cluster 9 Vision for the Future Harwell Campus is an exciting place to be, with cutting edge 10 UK Space Industry science facilities, major organisations and a great mix of companies from start-ups to multinationals. The Campus was quick to realise 12 Stakeholder Organisations £2+bnfacilities that it needed a mechanism to encourage collaboration, knowledge 20 Companies Driving Innovation at Harwell sharing and drive innovation, which led to the development of 40 Life at Harwell thematic Clusters. It started with the Harwell Space Cluster and now includes the HealthTec and EnergyTec Clusters. 42 Harwell Tomorrow 45 Contact I have watched Harwell Campus flourish over the last seven years, including the Harwell Space Cluster, which has grown to 80 organisations employing 800 people. I don’t expect there to be any let up in this growth and I look forward to the Campus changing, literally before my very eyes. SPACE I am really excited about the opportunities at the intersections between these Clusters, such as between the Space and HealthTec Clusters. Harwell CLUSTER Campus is able to demonstrate multidisciplinary innovation every day. There is no better way to really understand what is happening than to visit. I hope that you will do just that and that you will become part of the exciting future of the Harwell Space Cluster and help the UK reach organisations80 its goal of taking 10% of the global space market by 2030. 800employees The Rt Hon. Lord Willetts harwellcampus.com Published March 2018 1 HARWELL CAMPUS LARGE SCALE 16 STAKEHOLDER SCIENTIFIC NEW ORGANISATIONS FACILITIES DEVELOPMENTS 1 European Space Agency (ECSAT) 7 Public Health England 13 The Quad 13 2 RAL Space 8 Medical Research Council 14 Zephyr Building 14 8 3 7 4 5 2 3 ESA Business Incubation Centre 9 ISIS Neutron Spallation Source 15 Rosalind Franklin Institute 6 11 1 15 4 Satellite Applications Catapult 10 Diamond Light Source 16 Residential Complex 10 12 9 Scientific Computing UK Space Agency 5 11 Department Science and Technology Central Laser Facility 6 Facilities Council 12 Image supplied by Earth-i Ltd, Data 2017 ©21AT All Rights Reserved 2 3 SUCCESS OF THE HARWELL EMPLOYEE GROWTH SPACE CLUSTER OVER 10% The Harwell Space Cluster was the first 90 900 cluster to be established at Harwell Campus 80 800 following the arrival of the European Space 70 700 Agency, Satellite Applications Catapult and 60 600 Harwell Campus is home to over £2 billion of scientific UK Space Agency, alongside the longstanding 50 500 facilities and 5,500 skilled people. To drive collaboration Harwell Space activities of STFC RAL Space. The presence 40 400 and knowledge sharing, ‘clusters’ have been developed of these stakeholder organisations has attracted 30 300 in Space, Healthcare Technology (HealthTec) and Energy Cluster is the many companies to set up operations at Harwell 20 200 (EnergyTec). Each cluster brings together co-located Campus. Since 2010 the Harwell Space Cluster 10 100 co-location of 0 0 industry, academia and public sector with investors and has grown from a handful to more than 80 space entrepreneurs, leading to a powerful combination to industry, academia organisations today, employing over 800 people. 2015 2016 2017 tackle global challenges. Increasingly, more companies are and public sector The number of employees in the Harwell Space Employees Organisations exploring the opportunities at the intersections between Cluster has been growing at 13% per annum these clusters delivering multidisciplinary innovation. organisations at for the last two years. Harwell related to the space sector. The Space Cluster exemplifies the vision of Harwell as a nexus of ideas and an engine for innovation across discipline boundaries. STRONG COLLABORATION GATEWAY TO THE UK SPACE SECTOR Dr Barbara Ghinelli Collaboration at Harwell is strong, for example, Harwell Space Cluster is able to act as the Director, Campus Business Development AgSpace worked with the Satellite Applications gateway to the UK space sector due to the wide Catapult to develop a new crop measurement range of national facilities, infrastructure and tool for farmers; Deimos and eOsphere are space organisatons with established links across working together as part of the UK Space the UK. Harwell is the first port of call for many Agency’s International Partnership Programme; international visitors to the UK space industry. RAL Space is collaborating with Thales Alenia Space to deliver the Microcarb satellite mission, a joint UK-French satellite mission to help combat climate change; Orbital Micro Systems came to Harwell through the Satellite Application Great facilities, amazing companies led In Orbit Demonstration Programme and – this is an exciting place to be. have subsequently partnered with Satavia Dr Joanna Hart to enhance flight safety and reduce aircraft Harwell Space Cluster Development Manager maintenance costs. 4 5 Real innovation in whatever discipline often occurs at the interface between areas of expertise. Multidisciplinary clusters MULTIDISCIPLINARY become a huge cauldron for innovation. Sir John Bell ATTRIBUTES OF A Regius Professor, University of Oxford and Chair of the Bill INNOVATION SUCCESSFUL CLUSTER and Melinda Gates Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee shops To encourage collaboration and knowledge ork Links ell W i to rw nclud ven sharing between the wide range of organisations a s ing tu t H ay ES re At Harwell we focus on ec n d A ca nn ai B p at Harwell Campus, thematic Clusters have been o ch IC ita C y H l A stimulating innovation and industrial – pl a fi l p rw rm C identified. Following the success of the Harwell el su e s ll a C competitiveness, especially by the w E c r – r E Space Cluster, HealthTec and EnergyTec Clusters a M P o G H S r s S t – e s application of space assets in a wide c s N e s e O S were established to improve the connectivity I t n x n n n c fo range of other sectors. K o e e T v r C e o d O of the Harwell organisations operating in these R f s – g g h O in r ir Magali Vaissiere s a e F areas. The Harwell Cluster Steering Board takes c n e a k f t a I W - - n a t f N Director of Telecommunications u d a strategic lead in identifying new opportunities, C e T n e k b r d A & Integrated Applications, ESA, c e E a i supporting emerging clusters and encouraging a n y N p m g o Head of ECSAT Centre N S t n l o d C activities at the intersections between these u r – g p – a E o a t n I n clusters to drive multidisciplinary innovation. n i a i s c c C a c u t s u i b o t n a n a o t i s o S t MULTIDISCIPLINARY : r a s E – c i S l a e n p A s d p a a A INNOVATION e b n a d e h t r i l c U l y l r K a e s t e t S a a s AT HARWELL p g S e r a e c o fi e t n A s a k g n n e c i l i n n g c g y n , o r t S R s A e L ti The Harwell HealthTec Cluster includes The emergent EnergyTec Cluster is building on S ili p ac N ac f e e al d the Diamond synchrotron, Public Health the unique insights into battery behaviour at the w , D ic e i n nn re am ch la st o te p England and the Medical Research Council, ISIS neutron source and Diamond, as well as the au nd nd on ran , IS s a ati t, IS – fice od and will include the new £103 million Rosalind catalysis hub at the Research Complex where gym 710 s, of m an acre site housing lab com d ho ial ac Franklin Institute, which will house 240 many collaborations with universities already tel coming – Resident scientists linked to 10 universities. Companies exist. The HQ for the Faraday Institution will join at Harwell include Adaptix Imaging, The companies such as Oxford nanoSystems, FACILITIES Electrospinning Company, Oxford Nanopore SerraLux and ZapGo. and OxSyBio and the Cluster is linked to over 250 companies in the Oxfordshire Biopharma Cluster. 6 7 BUILDING THE VISION FOR HARWELL SPACE THE FUTURE The common vision for the Harwell Space Cluster is: CLUSTER All of the stakeholder organisations RAL Space are working to accelerate the National RAL Space growth of the Harwell Space Cluster TO BE A GLOBALLY >70 organisations Satellite Test Assembly Facility to open and to continue to build Harwell’s Integration and 50th company Test Facility, graduates from global reputation. This will involve: RENOWNED SPACE R100, opens ESA BIC Harwell 2020 ESA ECSAT CLUSTER AND International centre opens Space Innovation Satellite 2017 Centre (ISIC) Applications GATEWAY TO THE establishes, with Catapult launches Growing the Harwell Space Cluster to Airbus, Telespazio 2015 1 200 organisations employing 5,000 people VEGA and others UK SPACE SECTOR opening offices by 2030 (in line with the Space Growth 2013 Partnership targets) from the current 80 ESA opens space organisations with a combined Harwell office 2011 800 employees. This will require growth of the existing organisations at Harwell and attracting new companies to set up 2009 2018 operations at Harwell, including inward 80 organisations investors that can work alongside 2016 Oxford Space universities, Harwell facilities and >60 space Systems moves large companies to rapidly exploit organisations into new Zephyr and commercialise advances in 2014 Oxfordshire’s Science on campus building research and technology.