OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR
By choosing Base you’ll be located within Manchester’s innovation district - the Oxford Road Corridor, one of Europe’s top 5 innovation districts and the largest clinical academic campus in Europe.
The Oxford Road Corridor is home to one of the UK’s most densely concentrated cluster of life sciences and tech businesses, accounting for 49.6% of such companies in Manchester and 22.8% in Greater Manchester.
There are a total of 8,800 businesses on the Corridor, generating 20% of Manchester’s GVA - over £3.9bn a year and this is due to increase by an additional £2bn by 2025.
You’ll also be part of the Bruntwood SciTech network in Manchester, gaining access to the facilities and communities at Citylabs and Circle Square.
HIGHLY SECURE LOCATION
Manchester Science Park is one of the UK’s leading life science and tech communities located on a 424,000 sq ft, 10 building campus. The campus is a ‘living lab’ in itself, home to new test bed technologies and sustainability innovations including Tesla’s Powerpack Battery, next gen hybrid heating and cooling systems and integrated Demand Side Response Building Management Systems. By choosing Base you’ll not only have a physically secure location but a cyber secure one too on a world class, 100GB fibre network.
ACCESS TO WORLD-CLASS UNIVERSITIES AND TALENT
The Oxford Road Corridor is one of the highest talent pool populations in the country. The area boasts 13,000 jobs in hospitals, medical and dental practices, including 6,500 clinicians, with 79,000 people currently employed on the Corridor and an anticipated 104,000 FTE jobs by 2025. It is also the home to two world-class universities, of which the University of Manchester is the UK’s top university for graduate retention. There are 32,200 STEM students on the Corridor, out of a total 74,000 students, and across Greater Manchester there are 20,000 STEM graduates each year.
The Corridor accounts for 54% of all apprenticeship placements in Manchester, and Manchester Metropolitan University’s degree apprenticeship programme has successfully delivered over 1,100 apprenticeships with 220 employer partners to date.
The University of Manchester is one of the UK’s top research universities and by locating to Base you can gain access to direct connections into research and world-class talent.
ACCESS TO THE UK’S LARGEST NHS TRUST
Manchester Science Park sits at the heart of the city’s health and life science cluster and is surrounded by world-class research centres including the Stoller Biomarker Discovery Centre, the Biomedical Research Centre, Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, the Farr Institute, the University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. The University of Manchester’s Health Technology Research Hub - the Pankhurst Institute is also set to join the Bruntwood SciTech community in Manchester.
Bruntwood SciTech has a unique partnership with the UK’s largest NHS Trust - Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, which is just a few minutes walk from Manchester Science Park and where the Park’s sister campus is located - Citylabs.
By choosing Base you can gain access to a unique pathway to partnership, with opportunities available to collaborate and get direct access to MFT clinicians, resources and patients.
Current customers are already connected into MFT through joint clinical trials, sample supply, diagnostic collaborations, medtech adoption and research.
THRIVING CULTURAL COMMUNITY
The Oxford Road Corridor is home to many of Manchester’s cultural hotspots, such as the Whitworth Art Gallery, Royal Northern College of Music, Palace Theatre and Contact Theatre. It’s also home to a vibrant nightlife scene and retail, food and drink hotspots including pop up venue Hatch at Circle Square, home to over 30 independent traders.
Circle Square will soon have even more expansive amenities and facilities on offer with innovative fitness bootcamp TRIB3, live music and events venue Canvas and Asian food hall and supermarket Hello Oriental opening this year as well as Symphony Park - the city’s first and largest new city park in Manchester for generations.
By joining the Bruntwood SciTech community at Base you can access everything on offer at Circle Square and meet all the businesses at Circle Square including those in the city’s dedicated Tech Incubator and brands such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hilti, Mills & Reeve, Accenture, KPMG, Northcoders, and Manchester Digital.
