The Norwich Science and Innovation Vision

October 2011

Why did the Government invest £26M in the Norwich Research Park, how will it be spent and who decides?

With over 11,000 people the Norwich Research Park has one of Europe's largest single-site concentrations of research in Health, Food and Environmental Sciences. It is internationally recognised for the excellence of our research in the plant and microbial sciences, food, health, environmental sciences, computer and information systems and chemistry.

The NRP is a collaboration between the University of East Anglia, the  Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, and four independent research centres; the John Innes Centre, the Institute of Food Research, the Sainsbury Laboratory and from July 2009 The Genome Analysis Centre.  The Norwich Research Park is also home to over 30 science and IT based companies making the NRP a vibrant place to do business as well as research.

The presentations

1. Welcome and Introduction to the Norwich Research Park - Professor Dale Sanders, Director, John Innes Centre
2. Norwich Research Park - a bright future - Walter Herriot, Herriot Associates Ltd
3. Anglia DNA - Dr Thomas Haizel, Managing Director of Anglia DNA Services
4. BBSRC/NRP Project 26 - Dr Matt Hills, Head of Operations, Norwich Research Park