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Babraham Research Campus [2022]
Infrastructure
Impact for scaleups
2,000+
Size of the community
£5bn+
Market value of campus companies
£500m
commercial investment raised in 2021/22
£286m
GVA impact of the Campus on UK economy
Key sectors
With the vision to become one of the best places in the world for discovery bioscience research and innovation and a leading sustainable ecosystem, the Babraham Research Campus brings together world leading bioscience research and business with a focus that accelerates scientific discovery and helps to build and scale businesses. The result is a highly connected, sustainable and dynamic ecosystem that creates new discoveries, therapeutics, jobs and growth to support the UK economy.
A supportive infrastructure is available to campus businesses offering access to laboratories and offices on short-term tenancies with the opportunity to grow into larger space as they evolve. Additionally, they can benefit from access to Venture Capital investors via the annual Babraham Investor Conference which brings together investors and companies seeking investment.
The most recent review of the Campus’ economic impact, published in 2020, showed that companies estimated being located on the Campus had on average accelerated their fundraising by three months and increased the amount of funds raised to date by 10%. In addition, the number of employees is estimated to be around 20% larger than it otherwise may have been due to the Campus location. The total market value of the largest 14 companies on site was calculated to be £5bn.
Additional support for early-stage life science start-ups is provided by the Accelerate@Babraham bioincubator programme which Labiotech recognised as one of the top 25 such incubators in Europe. Access is via an annual competitive application and pitching process with up to five early-stage ventures selected to experience life as part of the Babraham Research Campus. The programme includes a bespoke five-month timetable of scientific, business, and technical support, free lab space, access to the exceptional Cambridge Cluster network, investor introductions and £10k non-diluted funding. The fifth cohort of businesses started the programme in 2022.
