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Premises and strategic development sites throughout North East England offer a plentiful supply of highly competitively priced workshops, factories, warehouses, high-tech units and managed workspaces.
Sites are also available on which purpose-built premises can be created, and larger brownfield areas have the potential for campus-style developments.
Incubation units and temporary offices help new and incoming businesses. Overseas companies can secure a base from which they can explore national and European markets.
The below list are examples of premises in North East England:
NETPark - the North East Technology Park at Sedgefield, County Durham - is one of the fastest growing Science Parks in the UK.
Focusing on supporting companies that are developing technology and products in the physical sciences, particularly printable electronics, microelectronics, photonics and nanotechnology, and their application in the fields of energy, defence, and medical-related technologies.
NETPark
Thomas Wright Way
Sedgefield
TS21 3FD
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DigitalCity is a flagship development which will put the Tees Valley at the cutting edge of digital technology.
It was established by One NorthEast, the University of Teesside and Middlesbrough Council to realise the area’s potential to generate and sustain a fast growing, high level economic base in the creative and digital sector.
Everything is geared to making North East the best place to develop your digital media, digital technology or creative business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur with a business idea, an established business looking to expand, a start up, one that’s looking to relocate or an organisation needing product development or finance.
DigitalCity Business is designed, driven and operated by industry professionals – people who’ve been there, done it, and continue to do so understanding what you need, and will move heaven and earth to deliver it.
If it's R&D you need there’s DigitalCity Innovation. Based at the University of Teesside - one of the UK’s big three digital media universities - it works seamlessly alongside DigitalCity Business: you’ll find the people there refreshingly business oriented too. It is also well connected with partner organisations across the North East and bring them into play whenever we can.
DigitalCity Business Office
Boho One,
Bridge Street West,
The Boho Zone,
Middlesbrough,
TS2 1AE
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Companies also have access to a wide range of cutting-edge research and development facilities for the digital sector.
The new Institute of Digital Innovation, based at Teesside University, fosters collaboration between academic research and digital sector business. As a major digital R&D environment, IDI is creating a business-friendly powerhouse ready to help develop exciting new products and services for the market.
Companies also have access to a wide range of cutting-edge research and development facilities for the digital sector.
Teesside University
Middlesbrough
Tees Valley
TS1 3BA UK
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Boho, in the Tees Valley is the region’s answer to the creative quarters of London and New York. It provides business space for new digital and creative companies to grow, network and do business.
The Boho Zone is the digital media, digital technologies and creative industries quarter in the heart of Middlesbrough. It will be like no other - a radical, beautiful combination of refurbished Victorian buildings and stunning new design. A genuine creative hub where new businesses, established successful companies and support agencies work together.
Cafés, restaurants and shops spill out - exhibitions and events on every corner, First Wednesday every month, street life 24-7-365. A safe, bohemian environment where people can do their best work, come together, collaborate and thrive. Inspired by the Sohos in New York and London, two of the most successful creative centres of the past century. Unique in the UK, unheard of round the world.
Boho One,
Bridge Street West,
The Boho Zone,
Middlesbrough,
TS2 1AE
UK
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Narec, North East England’s Centre of Excellence in New and Renewable Energy, is dedicated to giving organisations in this sector the support they need to transform winning ideas into commercial businesses.
The team provide specialist expertise in renewable energies, wind power, photovoltaics and sub-sea power.
Facilities on offer to investors include:
The world's largest wind turbine blade testing facility and prototype development techniques to support wind turbine manufacturers and developers who are creating the next generation of wind turbine technology
- The UK’s only independent Photovoltaic R&D Laboratory, combining small scale manufacturing and solar cell process development
- The Clothier Laboratory site offering a full range of state-of-the-art high voltage testing services, currently being used to test leading-edge Combined Heat and Power (CHP) biofuel systems
- Cutting-edge sub-sea testing facilities, which enable the full simulation of the new generation of mobile production platforms
- Tidal and wave energy testing systems providing unparalleled facilities for the marine renewable sector
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Wilton International is one of the few sites in Western Europe with special development status, allowing it to be used by heavy industries such as chemicals and process plant.
Created over 50 years ago, many of the world's leading chemical and manufacturing companies are already well established at Wilton, including blue-chip multinationals such as INVISTA, DuPontSA, Dow and Uniqema.
Wilton International
PO Box 1985
Wilton
Middlesbrough
Cleveland
TS90 8WS
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These include: Cels at Newcastle Micro Incubator A 4,000-square-foot, fully serviced incubator facility with individual 400 square foot units for life science or healthcare start-up companies. Located within Newcastle University’s Medical School, tenants are able to benefit from on-site scientific and business support from Cels. International Centre for Life (ICFL) A purpose built centre of 60,000 square feet providing accommodation for new and established biotechnology companies. The Incubator Suite is designed to allow start-up and spin-out companies to become established and realise potential commercial success. A shared laboratory facility is available for use by the incubator tenants.
North East England has a range of business incubators, bio-parks and business parks for healthcare companies.
The Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences (Cels) manages some of these and provides business support services to tenants of others.
Cramlington Bio-park offers ‘grow on’ bio-incubator space for multiple occupancy in the form of bespoke, purpose-designed units. These range from 1,000 square feet up to 3,000 square feet and are fitted out with both office and laboratory space, with additional access to communal equipment. These facilities will be complemented by stand-alone ‘shell’ buildings of up to 10,000 square feet for larger scale start-ups or for use as ‘grow on’ space for single occupancy tenants.
Cels Ltd
Quorum 16
Quorum Business Park
Benton Lane
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE12 8BX
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Newcastle University Medical School
Size: 7.6 ha
Potential Use: residential/commercial/leisure
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North East England is developing a major new business location, Science Central, with 100,000 square metres of new buildings accommodating world-class research, teaching and business facilities within its Science City initiative.
The site will feature incubators and other business accommodation designed to allow fast-track growth of high technology businesses with interests in ageing and assistive technologies, stem cells or molecular engineering.
Time Central
32 Gallowgate
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 4SN
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BIC has a 14-acre site based in Sunderland which is finely tuned to the needs of small and expanding companies. Offering a mix of modern, yet highly functional accommodation, BIC is home to over 150 companies in sectors such as biotechnology, and information and communication technology.
North East Business & Innovation Centre
Enterprise Park East
Wearfield
Sunderland
SR5 2TA
Quorum Business Park is a development by Quorum Development Partners, a joint venture between Grantside and Tritax who have successfully carried out developments and worked together for the last fifteen years on developments in the North East.
York based Grantside has been actively carrying out property and development projects in the North East since 1995 and has completed projects with a value in excess of £300 million and constructed over 1.2 million square feet of high quality prestigious office space. Grantside carries out the development, management and construction of its projects and has an enviable reputation for its quality and procurement. More recently Quorum Busines Park was chosen as the office base by Tesco Bank.
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Narec, North East England’s Centre of Excellence in New and Renewable Energy, is dedicated to giving organisations in this sector the support they need to transform winning ideas into commercial businesses.
The team provide specialist expertise in renewable energies, wind power, photovoltaics and sub-sea power.
Facilities on offer to investors include:
The world's largest wind turbine blade testing facility and prototype development techniques to support wind turbine manufacturers and developers who are creating the next generation of wind turbine technology
- The UK’s only independent Photovoltaic R&D Laboratory, combining small scale manufacturing and solar cell process development
- The Clothier Laboratory site offering a full range of state-of-the-art high voltage testing services, currently being used to test leading-edge Combined Heat and Power (CHP) biofuel systems
- Cutting-edge sub-sea testing facilities, which enable the full simulation of the new generation of mobile production platforms
- Tidal and wave energy testing systems providing unparalleled facilities for the marine renewable sector
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Nissan is building a £200 million European battery plant in Sunderland. The North East will have the UK’s first comprehensive infrastructure of electric vehicle... 
Advanced technologies in wind and solar power generation have been created. Biofuels and biomass are rapidly expanding, and innovations in fuel cells... 
Huge offshore wind farms planned for the North Sea have placed North East England in an ideal position to manufacture large numbers of turbines for these farms. 
Driving this sector are pharmaceuticals, world beating stem cells and genetic research, drug discovery and protein diagnostic techniques... 
The digital games industry, with Digital City as a focus, is a driving force in the creative field, while Sage has a commanding position in software development. 
The North East has major base chemicals & petrochemical complexes, alongside fine & speciality chemicals & pharmaceuticals. Biotechnology... 
Automotive manufacturing dominates this sector – Nissan in cars, and Komatsu and Caterpillar in heavy earth-moving vehicles. Defence, aerospace and marine... 
World leading subsea technologies have been developed to extract deeper oil and gas reserves, the North East has major pipeline terminals, processing... 
North East England is leading the way with a technology that allows electronic circuits to be made using specially developed semi-conductive materials. 
Exciting developments are taking place in printed electronics, with PETEC, the national centre for this future industry, located in the North East. Nanotechnology... 
Knowledge intensive business services in areas such as finance, legal services, human resources, management consultancy and marketing are expanding... 