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A new fund will support the development of Parkside and will focus on reinvestment in the borough. The Parkside Freeport Investment Fund has been approved by St Helens Borough Council’s Cabinet which will focus on a number of different areas including how the business rates will be used to support the project going forward and …
Sciontec Developments Limited (Sciontec), has announced its latest vision for its first new build development at Liverpool City Council’s flagship development site, Paddington Village. Sciontec, which owns Liverpool Science Park and manages innovative workspace at The Spine, has updated its plans for its eco-trailblazer new build, HEMISPHERE, which will now be home to circa 50,000 …
Slush, Europe’s foremost tech startup event, is coming to Liverpool for the first time this year. The conference – dubbed a “celebration of entrepreneurial grit” – will bring together startup founders and operators, investors and policy-makers at Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle on 14th September. Slush was founded by a group of students in Helsinki 15 years …
A new report published by Whitecap Consulting, in partnership with key regional and national stakeholders, has identified and mapped out a significant and growing FinTech sector in the Liverpool City Region, with key strengths in payments, WealthTech, InsurTech, and accounting. The report is the result of the first ever detailed analysis of the FinTech ecosystem …
A landmark innovation deal was signed today that paves the way for greater co-operation between two of the world’s most famous port cities. Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Park Heong-Joon, Mayor of Busan Metropolitan City in South Korea, aimed at enhancing ‘mutual understanding, prosperity and friendship’. The …
Glass Futures, an innovative research and technology centre that will help decarbonise the global glass industry, has officially opened in St Helens. The £54m Glass Futures Global Centre of Excellence will feature a unique experimental furnace and other technology that will pioneer ways of making carbon neutral glass. Learning from the facility could help decarbonise …
The scaling diagnostic development and laboratory service provider expands their UK operations, bringing LSP’s lab occupancy to 100%. Having launched its first permanent UK Laboratory in October 2022 at Liverpool Science Park (LSP), Pierian Biosciences has now signed a lease for a second CAT-2 laboratory within the Sciontec Developments Limited (Sciontec) owned innovation centre. Now …
Leaders from Liverpool City Region’s Life Sciences community join forces to showcase expertise at World Vaccine Congress 2023 in Washington. Industry leaders from Liverpool City Region and representatives from the Invest Liverpool City Region team at Growth Platform are joining forces to highlight the region’s global life sciences expertise at this year’s World Vaccine Congress …
The Department for International Trade and Growth Platform to showcase the Liverpool City Region’s life sciences expertise at this year’s World Vaccine Congress in Barcelona. Growth Platform, Liverpool City Regions Growth Company, and the Department for International Trade (DIT) have launched a new Vaccines Discovery, Development and Manufacture High Potential Opportunity (HPO) in recognition of …
Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram today welcomed a government decision to back an innovative low carbon and hydrogen energy project for the North West and North Wales.
Sci-Tech Daresbury has become the first location in the Liverpool City Region to install LCR Connect full fibre, doubling capacity and future-proofing connectivity for more than 150 world-leading science and technology businesses based on the campus.
Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, Steve Rotheram, has unveiled a radical plan to deliver real levelling up for the region – creating thousands of new jobs and improving life chances for its 1.6m residents.
