Innovation comes from environments where ideas can connect
Imperial's White City Campus is the embodiment of this vision: home to an entrepreneurial ecosystem with support, resources and facilities that span ideation, growth and acceleration. Here, we are driving technological innovations across rapidly growing sectors, including quantum, advanced materials, life sciences, genomics, robotics and artificial intelligence. We provide the skills and confidence to turn creativity and ideas into real products and services that can change industries, change lives and drive the UK’s ambition to become a ‘science superpower’.
Imperial has a long and successful history of partnership and collaboration with industry. We work with more than 500 corporate partners to translate research into practical commercial applications that benefit society.
At White City, we’re now bringing academia and business together on an unprecedented scale. We’re creating a network of innovation spaces for businesses of all sizes – major corporations, high-tech and high-growth companies, SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs – to work alongside Imperial at every stage of their development and growth.
To find out more about how you can co-locate with us at the White City Campus, visit the websites below:
A network of innovation spaces
Spearheading place-based innovation
A deep, strategic relationship with local government is key for creating successful innovation districts and something Imperial has been developing with Hammersmith and Fulham over a number of years.
In pursuing a local industrial strategy – called Economic Growth for Everyone – Hammersmith and Fulham Council has worked closely with Imperial, forming a Partnership for Growth and Innovation. One outcome of the partnership has been the ‘Upstream’ initiative which delivers targeted interventions and events that connect academia, innovators, entrepreneurs and corporates, allowing them to collaborate. By supporting innovation, collaboration and business growth, Upstream will fusebrings together Imperial’s capabilities as a leading research university with the skills, talents and expertise of the local community, helping to transform White City into a world-leading innovation district.
Enterprise
The Enterprise Division brings businesses, researchers and students together in a flourishing entrepreneurial ecosystem, which you can be part of.