16 July 2013
Today I attended the final pouring of the concrete on the top floor of the new Centrum building at the Norwich Research Park (NRP).

This new building is on schedule to open in Spring 2014. It will form the hub of commercial research and development at the Norwich Research Park, Europe’s leading centre for research in food, health and the environment. The building is to become an incubator for start up businesses in the food, health and environment sectors so they may work on the same site as the researchers and scientists at the NRP.

The NRP is a global centre of research and innovation in the “Life Sciences”. It is pioneering the innovations and companies that will help us feed, fuel and heal the world. I hope and believe that by 2050 the Norwich Research Park will be globally recognised as a leader in the science of sustainability: producing more from less. With Centrum at its heart and strong backing from the Government, Norwich Research Park could grow more than 5000 new jobs over the next twenty years putting Norfolk at the heart of the country’s economic recovery.

To read more about my visit and the Centrum Building | EDP, Norwich Research Park’s new Centrum will be a ‘symbol’ of the new economy says government’s life sciences advisor.