Business space to learn, inspire and grow.
The Innovation Centre
The centre provides incubator start-up facilities, with critical and flexible business support.
It is a place for ideas, research and development where experience, expertise and vision work together under one roof. It creates and fosters mutually beneficial relationships and establishes vital links between commercial businesses and higher education.
The centre is based at Norden House in Basing View, one of the town’s main commercial districts.
What the Innovation Centre can offer
- unique access to venture capital investment funds
- regional innovation and growth team on site
- flexible serviced office accommodation
- competitive, low-risk rental terms
- ‘easy-in, easy-out’ tenancy agreements
- business, secretarial and accountancy support
- meeting spaces
- networking events
- 24hr access and security
Click here to visit the Innovation Centre's website.
Supporting the borough’s economy
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council set up the first local authority backed venture capital fund of its kind to help innovative young businesses start up and grow.
The Innovation Centre was the next step, set up following research and development with SEEDA that identified there was a local demand for incubator start-up facilities which have proven to have a significant impact on company survival rates.
The centre encourages enterprise and strengthens the economic future of the borough, providing employment and development opportunities to people in the region.
In the longer term it is the council’s aim to bring educational colleges and universities together with businesses to create a ‘Learning Campus’ where innovation and learning can prosper and academic achievement raised.
