Welcome to Breakthrough, your new
UK Science Park Association magazine
The Well Lab
Looking at the building standard
for measuring, certifying and
monitoring the impact of buildings
on occupant health and wellbeing
34 business
angel funding
The vital ingredient in
supporting early-stage
companies looking to
grow but lacking in
financial backing
52 Members' News
A collection of updates
from UKSPA members
57 Aptamer
development
A start-up growth story
from York Science Park
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50 New Members
An introduction to new
UKSPA Members and
Business Affiliates
A most creative place
A closer look at Cambridge
Biomedical Campus by the UKSPA
Most Successful Project Award
winning team at Creative Places
A Day In the life of...
Jon Bradford describes a day
managing the newly opened
Bradfield Centre on the
Cambridge Science Park
R e a d o n l i n e at: u k s pa . o r g . u k / b r e a k t h r o u g h
71 International
trends
IASP Director General, Luis
Sanz, looks at strategies for
future success
74 Growing Start-ups
Tracking trends in the
incubation and acceleration
of UK start-ups
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32 How intellectual
How IP can support funding
in life science innovation
and why exclusivity is
key to securing funding
to progress technology
development
80 Boosting Start-ups
A countdown of UK
incubator and accelerator
key facts from Nesta
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