Norwich Research Park
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| Established | 1992 |
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| Budget | £130M annual research spend by partners |
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Field of research
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Plants, Environment, Food and Health |
| Address | Norwich Research Park |
| Location | Norfolk, England Coordinates: 52°37′26″N 1°13′26″E / 52.623894°N 1.223946°E |
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Zip code
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NR4 7UG |
| Website | www |
Norwich Research Park is a business community with world leading science credentials located to south of Norwich, Norfolk, in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom close to the A11 and the A47 roads.
Set in over 230 hectares of parkland, Norwich Research Park is home to over 12,000 people, including 3,000 researchers and clinicians with an annual research spend of over £130 million.
Norwich Research Park is a partnership between the University of East Anglia, the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, four independent world-renowned research institutes, namely the John Innes Centre, the Institute of Food Research, and The Genome Analysis Centre, (all strategically funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBSRC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory linked to the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
With a focus on creating and supporting new companies and jobs based on world-leading bioscience, in 2011 the Government awarded BBSRC £26 million to invest in Norwich Research Park to deliver innovation from the research base and generate economic growth and job creation.
Norwich Research Park is a member of the UK Association of Science Parks UKSPA
The foundations for Norwich Research Park were laid in the 1960s when major institutions began to converge in the area. Beginning with John Innes Centre in 1967, the then named John Innes Institute relocated to Norwich to work closely with the School of Biological Sciences at the recently established University of East Anglia.
The research park was officially launched in 1992 when it comprised the schools of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the UEA, the John Innes Centre, IFR Norwich, the MAFF's Food Science Laboratory and the British Sugar Technical Centre (formerly British Sugar Research Laboratory). The MAFF laboratory moved to York in 1992. The British Sugar presence at the site since 1968 ended when closed its laboratories in Norwich in 2001.
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