We provide lab space, office space and hot-desk space for up to 82 businesses via three dedicated co-location buildings on the campus: lab space in cTAP, and office space and hot desks in the Lancaster Environment Centre and InfoLab21, which won the national British Council for Offices Best Corporate Workplace prize - the first time that a university building won the award.

Up to 50% discount on office rental rates

Companies based in InfoLab21 and the Lancaster Environment Centre can now apply for up to 50% discount off office rental rates, depending on their level of engagement with the university each year.

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Renting lab space, hot-desks and offices and integrating all or part of a business onto the campus enables faster business growth by providing easier access to our research, knowledge, events, training and facilities.

Each business is allocated a relationship manager to match the business to the appropriate skills and facilities they need. The majority of our companies are currently from the chemical, manufacturing, environmental or ICT sectors and we are interested in expanding this to form research partnerships across all sectors.

We welcome international companies and work closely with the United Kingdom Trade & Investment (UKTI), the government organisation that helps businesses locate in the UK and grow internationally.

Due to our size and diversity, we can offer research and development facilities beyond what most Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) might have available. Through working with our business partnerships managers organisations are able to access these facilities in a variety of ways from one-off usages to regular bookings.

Examples include:

• A unique suite of cutting-edge instrumentation and facilities worth almost £7m
• A 50-100th scale wave tank, tidal flume and low head hydro test rig
• Computer-aided engineering and analysis software
• Extensive, state-of-the-art research laboratories
• New £4m class 100 and class 1000 cleanroom equipped with state of the art equipment including devices for molecular beam epitaxy, plasma etching, e-lithography, microresonators, optical coherence tomography
• Rapid manufacturing facilities, accessible as a technology demonstrator, learning resource, operational prototyping and manufacturing facility

Lancaster University's parkland campus is situated on the outskirts of the beautiful and historic city of Lancaster, Lancashire. Lancashire is in the Northwest of England and has a large and diverse economy consisting of a strong mix of over 35,000 registered companies representing all sectors of the UK economy. Lancaster University is a truly global university, with over 12,000 students from over 120 countries. Our community extends far beyond the Northwest with research, teaching and student exchange partnerships with leading universities and institutions in 24 countries around the world from China to Brazil.