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Business Affiliate
UKSPA Directory 2017
SQW recently completed a
detailed economic impact
assessment of the Sci-Tech
Daresbury Campus for STFC
SQW
L ocati on
Cambridge office:
Reuben House, Covent Garden,
Cambridge CB1 2HT
Manchester office:
3rd Floor, Beckwith House,
1 Wellington Road North,
Stockport SK4 1AF
London office:
First floor, 43 Chalton Street,
London NW1 1JD
C ontact detai l s
Christine Doel
T: 01223 209400
E: [email protected]
www.sqw.co.uk
Luke Delahunty
T: 0161 475 2105
E: [email protected]
www.sqw.co.uk
Edinburgh office:
48 Melville St,
Edinburgh EH3 7HF
Established in 1983, and operating
across the UK and internationally, SQW
is an economic consultancy working
for clients from the public, private and
voluntary sectors. We are experts in
innovation, spatial development and
knowledge-based economic growth.
We work with our clients to research,
develop, appraise, implement and
evaluate interventions.
SQW brings a 30+ year track record in
researching the process of knowledge-
based economic growth, and devising
strategies, plans and interventions
through which that process might be
accelerated. This work has been completed
across the UK and internationally. Over
the last couple of years, it has included:
• Extensive support to three of the
Wave 1 science and innovation audits
and five of those that were progressed
as part of Wave 2; some of these
related to city-regions (e.g. Leeds),
some to county-level geographies
(e.g. Oxfordshire), and some to
extensive regional consortia of
universities, local enterprise
partnerships, businesses, and other
stakeholders (e.g. Midlands Engine,
East of England, Innovation South)
• Economic impact assessments linked
Se c tor s
to investments in specific schemes
and campuses (e.g. Sci-Tech
Daresbury, Alderley Park and
Babraham Research Campus)
• Feasibility studies focusing on possible
future incubators, innovation centres,
science parks, and innovation districts
(e.g. for the Defence Science and
Technology Laboratory and Public
Health England at Porton Down,
and Fera at Sand Hutton)
• In-depth studies of clusters and
local innovation ecosystems such as
those focusing on the high performance
technology and motorsport cluster in
the area around Silverstone; the
Bristol‑Bath innovation cluster; and an
update to our study of the Oxfordshire
Innovation Engine
• Evaluation studies, such as an impact
evaluation of TechCity UK; evaluations
of three of the Catapults, namely the
High Value Manufacturing, Satellite
Applications, and Digital Catapults;
and the evaluation of the Start Up
Loans Programme. ■
Se r vi ce s
Science and Innovation
Science Parks/Incubators
Knowledge Economy
Feasibility Studies
Economic Impact Assessments
Impact Evaluation Research