The Norwich Research Park boasts the world renowned John Innes Centre and Institute of Food Research, adjacent to the biomedical research campus at the Norfolk and Norwich hospital, and the UEA Centre for Climate Change. Together, these centres represent a world class cluster of excellence in the key technologies which will shape the world's ability to meet the rising challenges of shortages of food, water and energy, healthcare and environmental degradation arising from the world population explosion. Combined with Norfolk's tradition of innovativeengineering around the Lotus site at Hethel, agricultural training and development at Morley and Easton, world class agriculture, and finance for innovation in Norwich, we have the building blocks to be the Silicon Valley of the next wave of 'Clean' Technologies.
George, an adviser to the Iceni Fund which supports innovative companies on the Norwich Research Park, and a Director of Elsoms Seeds, has spent14 years in technology venturing before deciding to stand for Parliament. He founded and runs 4D Biomedical and 4D Cleantech technology advisory businesses, and The Norfolk Way, an innovative project to raise the profile of Norfolk's innovation potential and campaign for a more organic approach to development in Norfolk based on a more diverse rural economy.
For more details on The Norfolk Way and George's campaigns to promote a new approach to Norfolk's economy, contact george@thenorfolkway.co.uk or call 01842 829 748.
Photo: George supporting Norfolk's global leadership in Food and Crop Science at the John Innes Centre and Institute of Food Research on the Norwich Research Park.
