A £5 million funding package from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) and Norwich Research Park (NRP) partners will boost the city’s world-class reputation as one of the country’s leading centres for scientific research.

The money to extend the innovation and incubation facilities is the first stage of a plan to create up to 5,000 new jobs in science and scientific research at the NRP by 2021.

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will provide £500,000 as well as the land and buildings to host the new facilities, with £1.4 million coming from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA), £1 million from the Greater Norwich Development Partnership (GNDP), £500,000 from NRP partner the University of East Anglia (UEA), and the remainder from other NRP partners.

Up to 300 new jobs will be created and the facilities are planned to be the first of a number of new buildings to be erected at the NRP to accommodate the growing community of world-class scientists and researchers being attracted to Norwich and the NRP. The new facilities, due to open in the summer, will be managed by a new joint venture company Colney Innovations Ltd (CIL).

Over 30 office and laboratory units are being constructed and fitted out in a totally refurbished and customised 4,215 sq m (43,000 sq ft) three-storey building, located adjacent to the Institute of Food Research on the NRP.

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