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The Bradfield Centre’s facilities are designed to accelerate businesses to new levels. The aim is to attract smart, ambitious, like-minded entrepreneurs and companies from both Cambridge and around the world.
Master Sir Gregory Winter (1970), who himself is a successful scientific entrepreneur, said the Centre’s supportive environment would be a key benefit for innovators: “Many science start-up companies have their roots in academic departments in Cambridge. But there are limits to the support and space that academic departments can give to spinning out ideas and technologies for commercial application. There has always been space for small companies on the Science Park but in the Bradfield Centre we offer more than space. We aim to provide a nurturing commercial environment for translating science into successful companies, and for turning scientists into successful entrepreneurs.”
With £4.8 million from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), and co-funding from Trinity College more than doubling this investment, the Centre has already attracted the interest of entrepreneurs and investors. Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson said: “This new centre builds on Trinity College’s great history of scientific discovery and will help to create new jobs locally.”
There will be an alumni launch event (TBC), in spring 2018 to celebrate the opening of the Bradfield Centre. More details will follow in due course. For additional information, please email alumni@trin.cam.ac.uk.