Value proposition

The UK's leading science and innovation campus.

Harwell is the UK’s leading science and innovation campus – a unique community of leading scientists, engineers and innovators working together to solve the critical problems facing our planet.

Over 7,000 people work in more than 250 organisations at Harwell and these numbers will continue to grow. Our collective goal is to make Harwell the world’s largest and most important location for scientific research, technological development and commercialisation. We are finding solutions for the big challenges of the future including the impact of ageing and growing populations, climate change and sustainability, space exploration and satellite communications, energy technology and storage. We focus on accelerating science and technology breakthroughs to improve the human condition.

Harwell is a crossroads where public, private, academic and commercial organisations meet and work together to address these global challenges. Start-ups, SMEs and multinationals choose to be located at Harwell where they have access to open access research facilities (the UK's National Laboratories) and where major investment opportunities exist. Over 30 university teams from across the world are on Campus at any one time. Cross sector collaboration combined with the cross fertilisation of talent, ideas and solutions are at the core of our open, collaborative environment.

Harwell has been leading world-changing scientific breakthroughs for almost 80 years and is currently managed under a private/ public partnership focused on the development of the Campus and its unique ecosystem.

Life Sciences, Space, Energy, Innovation, Science, Technology, Start-up, Scale-up, Commercial Science, Health Research, Big Data, Aerospace, Biotech, Cryogenics, Environment, Sustainability, Supercomputing, Material Science, Nano Science, Pharmaceuticals, Satellite Applications, Molecular Research , Green Energy, Battery Storage, Automotive, Electronics, Science Collaboration, Academic Research , Diagnostics, Business Support, Investment, Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron Source, Central Laser Facility, National Imaging Centre, Research Complex, Medical Research, Cluster, Upstream, Downstream, Catalysis, Robotics, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, HealthTec, EnergyTec, SpaceTec, Mining, and Nuclear