Published: 15 June 2011
How does London hold on to its science spin-outs?
Peter Wrobel, Science|Business
With around 400,000 students, five of the UK’s top 10 research institutions, and more than 20 Nobel prize winners, London has as much claim to be the centre of the country’s science as Oxford or Cambridge. So why does it have such a hard job holding on to its spin-out companies, particularly in life sciences?
The new incubator at Queen Mary BioEnterprises (QMB) in east London
One reason, perhaps, is that despite its size London has relatively little in the way of business incubators for start-up companies. The main incubators number just three: the London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) at the Royal Veterinary College, the Imperial Incubator at Imperial College, and the new incubator at Queen Mary BioEnterprises (QMB) in east London. There are also smaller, internal, incubating clusters at the National Institute of Medical Research in northwest...
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